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Enhancing the Capacity of Policing Mental Health Problems Through Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training

Fri, Nov 14, 8:00 to 9:20am, Marquis Salon 1 - M2

Session Submission Type: Complete Thematic Panel

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There have been an increasing number of tragic incidents over the years in which law enforcement encountered individuals in mental health crisis. Despite Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)training being one of the best-known police-based approach to addressing mental health-related crises in the community, the literature on the effectiveness of this training is still developing and there is a gap in the literature on the effectiveness of CIT training based on experiences of police departments in non-metropolitan settings. This panel reports on the BJA-funded work of a group of researchers from George Mason University to examine the impact of CIT training on law enforcement’s capacity to respond to mental health related crises in three agencies in Virginia whose jurisdictions vary in its population characteristics and levels of urbanization.

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