HANCOCK COUNTY — The work law enforcement officers do inside the Hancock County Jail can become dangerous if situations get out of hand. Officials note some 80% of inmates are dealing with some form ...

Wake Forest police officers complete 40-hour Crisis Intervention Team training to better manage mental health crises.

CRISIS CONTROL: Crisis intervention training is designed to improve safety for emergency responders, like law enforcement, and to be a jail diversion program for people who are in crisis. Photo ...

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Police Academy, part of the IUP’s Criminal Justice Training Academy, has partnered with Armstrong-Indiana Behavioral and Developmental Health Program to develop ...

TOLEDO, Ohio (WTVG) - Officers are at the forefront of dealing with citizens who are having a mental health crisis. Many first responders lack the training to deal with those tough situations. A new ...

Police departments across Hamilton County using crisis intervention training to save lives Police departments across Hamilton County using crisis intervention training to save lives Police departments ...

(TNS) — Law enforcement officials are undergoing new training Thursday to advance their skills in crisis interventions, response and de-escalation. The initiative is being funded by a grant that the ...

The Minnesota Crisis Intervention Team (MNCIT) has been training first responders in mental health crisis response for 18 years. I have served on the board of directors for six years. CIT came to ...

The weeklong, 40 hour training is facilitated by Valley HealthCare System in partnership with Trigon Training Group and the Southern West Virginia Crisis Intervention Team, according to a release from ...

APPLETON – Twenty years ago, Appleton became the first police department in Wisconsin to implement a new approach to policing incidents involving mental illness. It was 2003. John Wallschlaeger, then ...

Belpre Police Chief Michael Stump, left, Dustin Lloyd, Brayden Gerber, Jan Holden, Josh Mays, Warren Moyer III, and Caleb Smith at CIT training graduation on May 23. Erica Boyd also graduated from the ...