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Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) International (police training, working w/mentally ill persons)

Website: http://www.citinternational.org/


Mission: from the site:

CIT International is a non-profit membership organization whose primary purpose is to facilitate understanding, development and implementation of Crisis Intervention Team CIT programs throughout the United States and in other nations worldwide in order to promote and support collaborative efforts to create and sustain more effective interactions among law enforcement, mental health care providers, individuals with mental illness, their families and communities and also to reduce the stigma of mental illness.

CIT International works to accomplish this purpose by raising public and stakeholder awareness through education and outreach, establishing and disseminating recommended standards for developing, implementing and sustaining crisis intervention programs, providing assistance to communities interested in developing CIT programs, supporting research, improving public health and safety, evaluation of CIT programs and partnering with CIT programs in various localities to hold annual International CIT Conferences.





This organization provides Temporary or Permanent Service? Temporary

Notes:

from the site:

The Memphis Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is an innovative police based first responder program that has become nationally known as the “Memphis Model” of pre-arrest jail diversion for those in a mental illness crisis. This program provides law enforcement based crisis intervention training for helping those individuals with mental illness.

More resources:

This is all info from the conference I went to yesterday on Mental Health and Law Enforcement:

http://policeforum.org/ the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) website

International Association of Chiefs of Police

http://www.theiacp.org

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