Transcript CIT – The Connecticut Model

CIT “Plus”
Crisis Intervention Teams
The Connecticut Model
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CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
2009
The Synergy
Champion
The New London PD
Crisis Intervention Team
Impetus
CT Alliance to Benefit
Law Enforcement
CABLE
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Coalition Building
Crisis Intervention Team Training
A Collaborative Project
of the
CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement
CABLE
Funding
CT Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services
Community
Outreach
National Alliance
on Mental Illness CT
Family and
Consumer
involvement
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Coalition Building
State, Federal and Local police agencies
CT Department of
Mental Health & Addiction Services
Regional Mental Health Authorities
Regional Mental Health Boards
Hospitals
National Alliance on Mental Illness-CT
Central CT State University
Yale University
CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
2009
Research
and Training
CABLE & Spector
Criminal Justice Trng
Training,
Administration,
Ongoing
Consultation
Curriculum
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Introduction to CIT model
Mental Illness and Co-occurring Disorders
Mental Illness and the Law
Mental Illness in Children and Adolescents
Effective Police Encounters with Children and Adults on the
Autism Spectrum
Suicide by Cop: What we know; Personal Perspectives;
Post-shooting Trauma and Care
Suicide Assessment and Intervention
In-Custody Death and Excited Delirium
Medication: the Double-Edged Sword
De-escalation Techniques and Less Lethal Options
A Family Perspective on Mental Illness
In Our Own Voice – Persons with Mental Illness Share Their
Stories
Pre and Post Deployment: Veterans & Family Issues
Hearing Voices that are Distressing: An Experiential Exercise
Completing the Police Emergency Evaluation Review Form
CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
Role Plays
2009
More than just training!
Memphis Model of CIT
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• 40 hour curriculum
• Led by trained, experienced law
enforcement professionals (credibility is
key to CIT success)
• Co-training with mental health
professionals, families and persons living
with mental illness
• Interdisciplinary training – geared toward
police AND their mental health partners
• Working partnerships established between
police and community based crisis services
and supports
CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
2009
The Brain Child
New London PD CIT
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Southeastern CT Mental Health Authority
= Dedicated CIT Clinician
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2009
Role of the CIT Clinician
• Assist CIT officer on CIT calls
• Assist CIT officer in writing Emergency
Evaluation Request forms
• Stay with consumer in ED to finish
intakes and let CIT officer return to
road
• Follow up on consumers not taken to
ED – and those who are…
• Cell block assessments
• Build solid working relationship with
police partners and more….
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2009
Benefits
• A “continuum of care” that goes
beyond the initial encounter and
disposition
• Clinician continues the “follow-up” to
ensure that client is linked to services
• Facilitates and strengthens consumer
connections to community based
caregivers
• Reduces the number of repeat calls
• Saves the officer time off the road
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CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
2009
Funding
• Establishing connections with NAMI-CT
and others
• Presentation to the State of CT’s
Department of Mental Health and
Addiction Services (DMHAS)
• Research for Grant opportunities
• DMHAS was awarded a Byrne Grant for
a pilot
• CABLE chosen to implement both the
pilot and the statewide initiative
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2009
The Pilot
• To implement CIT in three large
urban police departments within
the state.
• To hire and train CIT clinicians
dedicated to working with those
police departments.
• To hire a University to:
assess the effectiveness of the
model as a pre-arrest, jail diversion
tool;
assess the effectiveness of CIT in
linking consumers to community
based services
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CT Alliance to Benefit Law Enforcement, Inc.
2009
The Carrot!
• Covered all training costs including some
overtime expenses
• Paid for the CIT Clinician to work with New
London/Norwich, West Haven, New Haven,
Hartford, Waterbury police departments.
• Potential reduction in officer injuries (workers
compensation claims)
• Potential reduction in injuries to consumers
• Potential reduction in liability claims against
municipalities
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2009
The work continues…
• Expanding the model
• Continued advocacy for support from the
state legislature and Prison and Jail
Overcrowding Commission
• Creative uses of statewide and community
resources to build what works best for
each community and their police
department.
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Where we are now
• 20 trainings
6 annual refresher conferences
• 1000+ officers and mental health
clinicians trained
• 55 law enforcement agencies
(Incl. State police, U.S. Marshalls, U.S.
Dept. of Veterans Affairs, Colleges and
Universities
MH Probation and MH Parole Officers)
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2009
Statewide insignia
• The Pathfinder
“Follow me, I know the way…”
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2009
For more information contact:
Inspector Ken Edwards, Jr.
President, CABLE, Inc.
(860) 258-5965
[email protected]
Louise Pyers, MS
Executive Director, CABLE, Inc.
(203) 848-0320
[email protected]
and
Criminal Justice Project Director
1-800-215-3021 – NAMI-CT
[email protected]
www.cableweb.org
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