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COSIG Co-Occurring Disorders Conference, Hershey PA, May 15-17, 2006
CRISIS INTERVENTION TEAMS
• A community partnership to set a standard
of excellence with respect to the treatment
of people with mental illness, improving
the quality of life in an entire community.
Connecticut CIT
CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
(CABLE)
In conjunction with
CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction
Services (DMHAS)
National Alliance on Mental Illness of CT
(NAMI)
CT Criminal Law Foundation, Inc. (CCLF)
PROGRAM OVERVIEW
• Officer selection
– All CIT officers are volunteers / not all
volunteers are selected.
– Volunteers are selected based on
communication skills, problem solving, and
their ability to perform under pressure.
TRAINING
• 40 Hour – multidisciplinary
• Find the most respected experts in the
field.
• Co-train with mental health providers.
• Create specialists within your police force
– not a special unit.
Training areas
• Overview of the Mental Health System.
• Co-occurring Disorders
• Mental Health & the Law
• Requests for Emergency Evaluations (17a-503)
• Hearing Voices (Living w/ schizophrenia) Role Play
• Less Lethal Overview
• Suicide assessment
• Suicide by Cop
• Post Shooting Trauma
• Children / Adolescent Mental Health
• Management of Aggressive Behavior
• Implementation pitfalls & successes
• Families (NAMI)
Training Partners
• NAMI-CT
• DMHAS (Department of Mental Health and
Addiction Services)
• Yale University
• Connecticut Criminal Law Foundation
• West Haven Police Department
• New London Police Department
• Waterbury Police Department
• University of New Haven
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