(LOOTPRESS) – First Choice Services (FCS) has announced that Hollis Lewis has joined their management team as Program Director for the West Virginia Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) initiative. CIT programs bring together law enforcement, mental health professionals and advocates to improve community responses to mental health crises. FCS plans to implement more CIT training statewide, embed Peer Recovery Specialists with several police departments, and create a website to streamline and track CIT initiatives.
Lewis graduated from Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and has previously worked as a Clerk in the Honorable Judge John Goodwin’s chamber for the U.S. District Court of Southern West Virginia, Kanawha County Magistrate Judge, member of the West Virginia Parole Board, Adjunct Professor of Criminal Justice at West Virginia State University, and Legal Investigator at Bailey & Glasser Law Firm. He was recently appointed to the House of Delegates to represent the 57th District to fill the vacancy left by Doug Skaff. Â
