Mental Health/Law Enforcement Response Programs

Roundtable exploring acquired brain injury (ABI) in police crisis response hosted at IACP 2024 annual conference.

Roundtable exploring practices on hiring clinicians for collaborative programs in police agencies of behavioral health and IDD

IACP staff held the "Elevate and Sustain: A Dynamic Approach to Revolutionize Your Crisis Response Program" workshop at IACP2024, presenters will discuss how to use and translate this data to key stakeholders and access no-cost IACP/BJA resources to support long-term sustainability. Presenters included police leadership from Norton Shores, MI (FY21) and Springfield, IL (FY21) grantee sites, program management from NJ DOC (FY21) grantee site, the Arc, and NPI.

"The Community of Practice (COP) series is an ongoing TTA resource for CRIT grantees, led by IACP and in collaboration with project partners. This series of virtual meeting sessions will focus on different topics and allow grantee sites to interact with one another and exchange peer-to-peer.

Hosted a new grantee orientation webinar with BJA for FY24 CRIT grantees. Webinar onboarded grantees to CRIT grant award.

Spoke for a CRIT 101 webinar for RTI grantees, per BJA's request. Provided historical context for the CRIT curriculum and discussed the uses and benefits of CRIT for crisis response programs and communities at large.

Over the past six (6) months, the IACP has tracked interest for the CRIT curriculum, CRIT training, CRIT Train the Trainer events, and CRIT policies from fifteen (15) unique individuals, policing agencies, and other organizations across the United States. The IACP has responded to these requests for information and, in some circumstances, hosted informational sessions with the requesting agency to answer their questions and provide support as needed.

Met with retiring Roanoke, VA Assistant Chief as he is becoming director of VA CIT Coalition to discuss CRIT. Made the connection at IACP's annual conference.

IACP staff was invited to promote and discuss CRIT curriculum and crisis response programming to grantees under the TTA provider CSG.

Site requested resources on training modules for 911/dispatchers. Provided HomeSafe resources for 911 and IDD.