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Faculty Blogs: CIT Training Talk

Today I spoke to the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department's newest Crisis Intervention Team training class about how those with severe mental illness can be successful professionals.  The very important CIT program which NAMI Louisville helps present teaches police officers how to deal with those with mental illess so that hospitalization rather than incarceration occurs, and potentially violent confrontations are deescalated to avoid tragic results.  All parts of the nation should adopt the crucial CIT training for law enforcement officers, often the first responders to those in mental health crisis.

Full post as published by University of Louisville Law Faculty on February 03, 2009 (boomark / email).