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The lack of mental health crisis services across the U.S. has resulted in law enforcement officers serving as first responders to most crises. A Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program is an innovative, community-based approach to improve the outcomes of these encounters.
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program is a community partnership of law enforcement, mental health and addiction professionals, individuals who live with mental illness and/or addiction disorders, their families, and other partners to improve community responses to mental health crises. While CIT programs are known for CIT-trained officers ...
“Widespread crisis intervention strategies and techniques are critical to addressing rising rates of overdoses and suicides that continue to devastate families nationwide.
The Crisis Intervention Team Inc. (CIT Inc.) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), organization founded by a detective and a physician to help avoid and minimize crisis through various, innovative programs focused on raising community standards around behavioral health and crisis intervention.
NAMI is committed to advancing efforts to reimagine crisis response in our country. We are calling for a standard of care in every community that provides a continuum of crisis services that end the revolving door of ER visits, arrests, incarceration and homelessness.
Jan 8, 2013 · This goal, based on five objectives, includes lessening injuries to officers, alleviating harm to the person in crisis, promoting decriminalization of individuals with mental illness, reducing...
CIT International is proud to provide, Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Programs: A Best Practice Guide for Transforming Community Responses to Mental Health Crises, the first comprehensive guide for communities to best practices for starting and sustaining CIT programs.
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training is the course of instruction associated with the CIT approach to responding to people with mental illness. The CIT training course requires an extensive 40-hour curriculum taught over five consecutive days.
WHAT IS CIT? CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS are community-based programs that bring together first responders, mental health professionals, mental health advocates, people living with mental illness and their families, and other partners to improve community responses to mental health crises, helping to: Create safer communities.
We are advocates in Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) models and find their effectiveness goes beyond helping those who are in a behavioral health crisis. An effective program contains three core elements: Inclusive Collaboration, Training, and Coordinated Responses.
