state: Arizona
name: Tucson Police Department
description:
- Mental Health Support Team (MHST)
- Co-responder program pairs MHST officers with mental health clinicians
- Proactively and compassionately connects people who have mental health needs to services before, during, and after a crisis
- Crisis Mobile Teams (CMT)
- Work in tandem with the crisis line to provide continuous access to services
- Crisis Response Center (CRC)
- Provides 24/7 emergency psychiatric and substance addiction treatment services for both adults and youth
- Multi-tiered training is open to all levels of law enforcement, mental health workers, call takers and dispatchers, emergency medical technicians, paramedics, and firefighters. Training includes:
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) and basic crisis mitigation and management training for all officers; training is also open to the community
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for officers on a voluntary basis
- Advanced training for specialized units including MHST and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) Negotiators
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/tucson-police-department/
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state: California
name: Los Angeles Police Department
description:
- Multilayered approach that includes co-response teams, follow-up case managers, and triage/dispatch operators
- Embedded mental health professionals
- Comprehensive data collection and information sharing procedures
- Robust training strategy that includes 40-hour mental health intervention training
- Mental Health Crisis Response Program Advisory Board
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/los-angeles-police-department/
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state: Florida
name: University of Florida Police Department
description:
- Comprehensive coordination among many campus entities involved with student and faculty wellness
- Training for university officers, with on-site support during incidents, as well as crisis intervention consultants
- Training includes:
- Intensive 40-hour mental health and crisis intervention team (CIT) training for all sworn officers
- Annual QPR Gatekeeper Training for Suicide Prevention (Suicide Prevention Resource Center training)
- Seminars on multicultural and diversity issues
- Online training for communicating with distressed persons (At Risk-Kognito training)
- Advanced training on threat assessment and intervention (Gavin DeBecker & Associates training)
- UFPD is also positioned to respond to youth in crisis from K-12 through university-age students due to a K-12 Developmental Research School on campus.
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/univ-of-fl-police-dept/
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state: Maine
name: Portland Police Department
description:
- Mental health professionals embedded in the law enforcement agency
- Operates within small city, in collaboration with nearby rural community
- Police-mental health co-response model with community-based support network
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for all officers
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/portland-police-dept/
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state: Massachusetts
name: Arlington Police Department
description:
- Serves a suburban jurisdiction in close proximity to two urban centers
- Features a co-response program and targeted initiatives, spearheaded by a mental health clinician embedded in the police department, which includes the Jail Diversion Program, Hoarding Response Team, Elder Abuse Prevention Task Force, and Arlington Opiate Outreach Initiative
- Uses strong community partnerships to facilitate cross-sector case management
- Provides multi-modality training, which includes instruction in:
- Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) for all officers
- Trauma-informed care
- Youth development/brain development
- Context-specific crisis management and intervention techniques
- Signs and symptoms of mental illness
- Signs and symptoms of overdose
- Narcan (deployment and distribution training)
- Common psychiatric medications and usage
- Suicide risk and prevention
- Relevant laws and statutes
- Collects and analyses data comprehensively in a system that allows for specialized clinician access
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/arlington-police-department/
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state: Ohio
name: Gallia, Jackson, Meigs Counties Sheriffs’ Offices
description:
- Composed of three sheriffs’ offices that came together to provide a regional response in rural Appalachia, alongside a mental health provider, for the purpose of becoming a PMHC learning site
- Offers Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training to all law enforcement personnel
- Employs a Mobile Crisis Team (MCT) to provide tailored mental health and addiction treatment services, telemedicine, and on-call support for crisis situations in five adult correctional facilities
- Uses evidence-based practices, including:
- Trauma-informed care and interventions
- Substance addiction counseling
- Cognitive behavioral therapy
- Motivational interviewing
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/gallia-jackson-meigs-sheriffs/
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state: Tennessee
name: Madison County Sheriff's Office
description:
- Participates in an inter-agency collaborative, which includes representatives from city, county, and state criminal justice and behavioral health agencies
- Operates in a primarily rural area with an increased population during business hours due to commuter influx
- Uses a comprehensive training strategy, including 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training
- Established processes for law enforcement personnel to identify and connect appropriate people to a 24/7 Crisis Stabilization Unit (CSU)
- Formalized data collection processes with information-sharing agreements
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/madison-county-sheriffs/
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state: Texas
name: Houston Police Department
description:
- Multi-faceted strategy that includes crisis intervention trained (CIT) patrol officers, co-responder units, Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), Boarding Homes Enforcement Detail, a proactive Chronic Consumer Stabilization Initiative, and comprehensive dispatcher training
- Mental health training for all officers that includes:
- 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for all cadets
- 8-hour advanced CIT classes
- State-mandated 8-hour CIT refresher for all officers with their Basic Peace Officer Certification
- 40-hour Mental Health Peace Officer class for veteran officers
- 8-hour CIT class for newly hired jail staff
- 4-hour CIT refresher class for jail staff
- 24-hour Telecommunications Crisis Communications class
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/houston-police-department/
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state: Utah
name: Salt Lake City Police Department
description:
- Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) multi-county collaboration: 40-hour training for patrol and corrections-based academies
- Additional Training
- Crisis Intervention Team for youth: 8-hour academy
- Autism training: Two 5-hour courses per year
- Post-traumatic stress disorder specialization and officer wellness 8-hour course
- Recertification and officer resilience CIT training
- Small city and rural community collaboration and coordination across multiple jurisdictions
- Detective in CIT Investigative Unit follows up on mental health calls for service
- Complementary three-team approach: CIT, Homeless Outreach Service Team (HOST), and Community Connections Center (CCC) Team
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/salt-lake-city-police-department/
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state: Wisconsin
name: Madison Police Department
description:
- Data collection and information dissemination to line-level officers
- Training for all officers using "scenario-based" approaches
- Multi-layered approach with officers trained to be "mental health liaisons"
- Full-time mental health team (sworn officers and in-house crisis workers)
- Four Pillars of MPD’s Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training program for outside agencies
url: https://csgjusticecenter.org/law-enforcement/learning-sites/madison-police-department/
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