CIT


	Ohio's Voice on Mental Illness State affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness

Crisis Intervention Teams
Communities are faced with problems associated with an inadequate community response to the issue of individuals with untreated mental illness coming into contact with the criminal justice system.Â Both criminal justice leaders and mental health advocates are searching for solutions such as Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Police Training, but are finding it difficult to access the expertise needed to adopt the program locally.

Through a series of community presentations and regional CIT demonstration training events, law enforcement agencies, mental health providers and consumer/family advocates are being given the tools to collaborate in the development of a community response to these issues.Â The goal of CIT is to reduce the number of contacts that police have with persons with mental illness that end in an injury or a death and to provide front line law enforcement personnel with the tools to help this vulnerable population into recovery..


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