CIT WITH YOU IN MIND

Community ClassesCombination of agencies

Specific AgencyPDFirefightersDetention OfficersTransit Police

Who is your audience?

Specialized classesChild CIT

AdministratorsTeachers; StaffSchool Police

How do you tailor the class?

Collaborate; find out what is needed

Collaborate; incorporate instructors from that agency

Who is your audience?

I. CIT History

II. Mental Health Classes (these classes are aimed at reducing stigma; increasing knowledge)

III. Developmental Disorders

IV. Emergency Detentions (or your term for involuntary apprehension)

Core Subjects

V. Active Listening/De-escalation

VI. CIT Response

VII. Consumer/Family’s Perspective

VIII. Resources

IX. Role Plays

Core Subjects

How CIT Began

Memphis

Our State

Our City/County

Be Creative

HISTORY

Psychosis

Mood Disorders/Anxiety Disorders

Child Issues

PTSD

Depression; Suicide

Personality Disorders

MENTAL HEALTH

Who is Your Student?

Include Suicide by Cop

Include Officer Suicide: Taking Care of Our Own

Role Plays

SUICIDE

Intellectual Disability

Autism

ADHD

DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDERS

Understanding and recognition of symptoms

Discussion on handling (speaking and physical contact) persons with developmental disorders

This is important to understand and decisions are dependent on local statutes – e.g., In Texas we can’t execute an application for Emergency Detention on persons with developmental disorders, Alzheimer’s or Dementia

Include basics; definition

Include the law

Any other relevant issues: travel, dress, vehicle used; policies

Include the forms used and slow it down; decision making exercises in deciding to conduct an ED and practice in completing the forms

Role Play: part of the grading whether or not to ED

Emergency Detention

Our bread and butter: how to talk to a consumer; how to listen

MORE PIE

Low and slow

Role plays

Active Listening

CIT Response

Definition of a crisisLevels of violenceUse of ForceIdentify Indicators of Mental IllnessTypes of Questions to Ask the ConsumerThree minute assessmentResponding to Domestic DisturbancesValues of CIT

Nothing is more personal than the consumer’s own story in their own words

Nothing provides more insight than a family member discussing dealing with the day to day issues and experiences with a loved one who suffers from a mental illness, including the services provided, or not provided, by the police

It is difficult to obtain a child’s perspective

CONSUMER/ FAMILY PERSPECTIVES

ResourcesProvides audience with information related to hospitals, mental health agencies, specific agencies who deal with specific agencies

Resource panel on a specific dayInvite area mental health resource providers

NAMIState HospitalJudgesMental Health AuthorityCounty DMOTEating Disorder Specialists (Child CIT)Juvenile Probation (Child CIT)Hospitals who accept children with mental

issues (Child CIT)

COP Cards

Mini fairsInvite area community resources to have a

tables providing agency specific literature concerning their services

RESOURCES

Role PlaysWho is your student?

Provides an opportunity for the officer to use their active listening skills

Specific role plays on different days to match the topic of the day

Role PlaysUse mental health professionals as

actors

In Child CIT classes use child actors or police explorers

In police suicide role plays use police officers as actors

Role PlaysGraded to provide immediate feedback

Graded on initial approach, tactics, obtained relevant information, establish rapport, and disposition of the call

Practice for skill test role play at the end of the course

Optional CoursesJail Diversion

Not optional for us because it’s required by TCLEOSE but it is an excellent opportunity to show why diversion is preferable to arrest and booking

Invite the local Mental Health Authority to come in and present the class

Optional CoursesExcited Delirium

Officers will get calls that may appear to involve a person in a mental health crisis when in reality the person is in a state of delirium and at high risk of death if handled improperly

Excellent opportunity to provide officers with critical information that may involve civil and criminal liability

Optional CoursesHomeless Issues

Again, not optional for us, but a great class to highlight the large number of homeless persons who have a mental illness and, more recently, the problem of veteran’s who are homeless and experiencing PTSD, traumatic brain injuries or other mental illnesses

Include Relevant Subjects

ADHD, Conduct Disorder, Oppositional Defiant Disorder

Cutting/Self Harm

Depression; Suicide

Brain Development

Children’s Mental Health

Be Creative & Inclusive

Name Tags

Name Plates

On Slides

Who is Your Student?

Be inclusive Invite Community Leaders, Agency leaders

Awards Presentation

Establishes a positive camaraderie from the beginning

Overall Goals Day 1

Graduation

INVITE THEM BACK!