Decriminalizing Mental Illness: A Practical Model for Building Sustainable Crisis Intervention Teams: 2 (Capacity Building) - Tapa dura

Sinopsis

Innovative, Inspirational, and Above All, Practical and Proven

Crisis Intervention Teams divert people living with mental illness from jail with practical alternatives. Decriminalizing Mental Illness offers effective strategies for building a permanent Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program based on a confirmed, easy-to-follow process of capacity building. It will help you:
• Establish community networking and fundraising to support your CIT program.
• Decide the program’s scope and structure given your community’s unique situation.
• Implement your process with a checklist of field-proven Effective Practices.
• Create true collaboration between law enforcement and mental health professionals.
• Choose the venue, format, and personnel for training those involved.
• Take your CIT program from conception to a self-sustaining community service.

“CIT is the best idea for addressing a major problem for local municipalities— what to do with the mentally ill. Decriminalizing Mental Illness is the most powerful blueprint for getting the job done.”
— George F. Breedy, Captain, St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office

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