About me
Steven Thomas, CCISM a Lieutenant with the Anne Arundel County Police has a BA from UMBC (Political Science and Sociology) and a MA from the University of Baltimore (Legal and Ethical Studies). He started as a patrolman with the Anne Arundel County Police in 1996 where he remained in patrol through promotion to Sergeant and Lieutenant, until he became the CIT and Peer Support Coordinator in 2016. CIT International recognized the Anne Arundel County CIT Unit as the 2020 CIT Unit of the Year and in 2024 awarded the Unit a platinum certification, its highest certification as a leading program and learning center for other programs to emulate worldwide.
He is on the ICISF (International Critical Incident Stress Foundation) Board of Directors, an ICISF approved instructor and in the spring of 2019 received the ICISF Pioneering Spirt Award at their World Congress. He is a Youth & Adult Mental Health First Aid Instructor and at the 2018 Mental Health First Aid Summit in Washington D.C. was named a top 100 instructor.
Steven is on the Maryland NAMI (National Alliance of Mental Illness) Board of Directors, the Maryland TBI (Traumatic Brain Injury) Advisory Board and the Maryland Department of Health’s Suicide Fatality Review Committee.
