CIT is an innovative first-responder model of police-based crisis intervention with community, health care, and advocacy partnerships. CIT provides 40 hours of specialized training for problem solving ...

Especially in some extreme cases, it is often that police are the ones called when there is a lack of mental health services available around the clock for community members. But ...

Law enforcement officers from across the area are gathering in Wichita to complete “Crisis Intervention Team” training.

The extensive 40 hour CIT course is considered by law enforcement experts to be the gold standard training on how to deal with individuals who are experiencing a mental health crisis.

Crisis intervention training Engemark, along with his colleagues Chad Poynter and Shannon Chambers have been full-time crisis intervention deputies for mental health calls since August.

As more officers in Jackson County police departments receive Crisis Intervention Team training for dealing with people with mental illness, the number of CIT reports has doubled.

Crisis Intervention Team training promotes collaboration between police and mental health workers to respond to anyone suffering a mental health emergency, according to the Cumberland County ...

Courses within the department, including Crisis Intervention Training (CIT), also teach this in more detail.

Chandler is scheduled to host the next crisis-intervention training session, followed by Mesa and then Gilbert, Wilkinson said. Plans are to train about 100 East Valley officers every year.