CIT Training
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Providing Whole Community Solutions for improving mental health response and integrating mental health awareness in all the systems that interact with individuals with a mental illness, and other brain related disorders. |
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Register online below or contact us to learn about other trainings. Bring us to your agency for a customized training.
40 Hour CIT training for Law enforcement
in Ramsey County
November 9-13, 2009
These 40 hour CIT trainings are sponsored by the Barbara Schneider Foundation and hosted by the Ramsey County Sheriff's Office. They are open to police officers and patrol deputies in Ramsey County. The training will follow the CIT training format used in Minnesota which includes local content expert presenters, consumers, and daily scenario based role plays with the professional police training actors from the Crisis Company. Training is fully funded through a grant from the Minnesota Department of Human Services to Ramsey County. Contact Mark Anderson for further information, (612) 801-8572.
Crisis Intervention Team/Mental Health
Response for jail staff
November 2-5, 2009, 8am - 5pm
Hennepin County Public Safety Facility, 401 South 4th Av, Minneapolis
 Sponsored by BSF, Hosted by Hennepin County Sheriff's Office. |
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a law enforcement mental health crisis response developed by the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department in 1988. It teaches the de-escalation model of mental health crisis response. This training for corrections and detention staff is a 4-day program developed to address real world situations found in jails and prisons. |
In Minnesota, CIT is taught using stop action, scenario based role plays with professional actors. Classroom training is presented by community leaders and professionals in their area of expertise. Participants will learn skills that can be taken back to their facilities and apply them to situations involving persons in custody with a variety of mental health concerns or disruptive behaviors. CIT officers will learn a more humane and calm approach to reduce the likelihood of physical confrontations. $360 registration fee per person.
CIT role play facilitator/coach training
November 6, 2009, 8am - 5pm
Hennepin County Public Safety Facility
401 South 4th Ave., Minneapolis
This day long training is for CIT trained, or equivilant, officers. BSF will use Crisis Company trainers and role players to provide this training. Participants will learn to lead the role play scenario groups that are used in CIT training. This can be thought of as a CIT2.0 training because in this higher level training participants are taught how the scenarios are designed, how teaching points are embedded in each scenario and how the role play is used to teach the concrete skills needed to de-escalate in mental health crisis calls. This 'train the trainer' approach will make it possible for more police departments to participate in the implementation of CIT training in their local area. Contact BSF to learn more about how your department can participate in this training. There is no charge for CIT trained, or equivilant, officers.
Crisis Intervention Team/Mental Health
Response for Law Enforcement
April 27-May 1, 2009
Location, Stillwater, MN
Hosted by Stillwater Police Department |
East Metro and Western Wisconsin officers are encouraged to attend. CIT is taught using stop action, scenario based role plays with professional actors. Classroom training is presented by community leaders and professionals in their area of expertise. Participants will learn skills that can be taken back to their workplace and applied situations involving persons with a variety of mental health concerns or disruptive behaviors. CIT officers will learn a more humane and calm approach to reduce the likelihood of physical confrontations and improve outcomes on these calls. |
Much of the curriculum for this class has been promoted in Minnesota by the Barbara Schneider Foundation to improve crisis response since 2000. The Barbara Schneider Foundation uses this training event to build and strengthen collaboration between all the systems that respond to persons at risk for mental health crisis. The tentative class schedule includes:
Day 1
Overview of Mental Illnesses – Spectrum of Illnesses, Symptoms and Behaviors; Overview of Mental Health Resources; Medications- Effectiveness and Limitations; Consumer Experience; De-escalation Skills; Elder Issues
Day 2
Mental Health Provider Tour and Discussion; Suicide Prevention; Suicide by Cop; Collaborating with Community Crisis Partners; Responding to Trauma and PTSD; Soldier Re-integration
Day 3
Co-occuring Substance Abuse with Mental Illness; Developmental Disability Issues; Legal Issues and Civil Commitment; De-escalation and Communication Skills; Role Plays
Day 4
Role Plays; Homeless Issues; CIT Officers Share Experiences; Role Plays
Day 5
Consumer Experiences; Role Plays; High Risk Youth; Cultural Community Issues; Graduation
This training fee includes all presentations, scenario based role plays utilizing professional actors from The Crisis Company and all classroom materials. Your organization will be responsible for any lodging, transportation and other meals as required. The training cost is $475.00 per person with registration fees paid directly to the Barbara Schneider Foundation.
Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training
Part of our work over the last six years is to build a strong CIT program in Minnesota. This 40 hour training is for police officers and sheriff deputies only. BSF will work with any department that is interested to develop an affordable training that meets their needs. All trainers are police officers in this POST Board approved class. Each day of the training includes small-group scenario based role-play training with professional actors and a police officer facilitator. Curriculum includes the following elements: an overview of mental illness and the mental health system; site visits to psychiatric receiving facilities; mental health courts; mental health consumer and family panel discussion; specific psychiatric conditions and other behavior health disorders like traumatic brain injury, developmental disabilities, fetal alcohol, addiction, dimentia etc., their manifestations and treatments. Presentations on topics are made in 1 hour blocks by volunteer local mental health professionals in their area of experise. These presentations provide valuable opportunities for mental health and criminal justice professionals to initiate and deepen local collaboration. We are working with the Minneapolis Police Department CIT Unit, the Hennepin County Sheriff's Department, Moorhead Police Department, University of Minnesota Police Department, Benson Police Department and facilitators from a variety of police and sheriff's departments on this training.
About CIT
In 2000, after Barbara Schneider died, concerned citizens, who would later formed BSF, met with Greg Hestness. He was then Deputy Chief at Minneapolis Police Department, MPD.
MPD sent representatives to Memphis, Tennessee to learn more about the CIT model Memphis PD had developed. Later that year, MPD adopted the CIT model, began training CIT officers, who volunteered for the unit and received 40 hours of training. BSF helped with the training by bringing mental health consumers who had been responded to by law enforcement to the sessions to help officers understand mental health calls from the point of view of the person being responded to.
Other leading CIT Departments in Minnesota are University of Minnesota PD, Burnsville PD, Benson PD and Woodbury PD.
CIT is not just about training. It is about building relationships between law enforcement and the mental health community and working together to improve the effectiveness of the response to mental health 911 calls. It is about humanizing people with mental illness, and understanding that mental illness is first and foremost a health care problem.
MPD has continued to develop its CIT Unit, BSF has been involved in providing mental health training to dozens of police departments, and the CIT model has since been widely adopted by law enforcement across the nation.
Interest in CIT is growing in Minnesota. Thanks to those who took up the challenge of preventing deaths and improving outcomes in mental health crisis calls, a strong partnership has developed. And the entire mental health community strongly supports the progress.
Minnesota CIT Training:
Since 2001 Barbara Schneider Foundation has assisted partners in law enforcement in the delivery of CIT training. In 2006 BSF partnered with Minneapolis Police Department to sponsor two, 40 hour, open enrollment CIT trainings for police officers, one in Bloomington and one in Woodbury. This training of 60 officers from over a dozen departments expanded the presence of CIT officers in Minnesota dramatically. In 2007 BSF provided a grant to the Benson Police Department to support their CIT training. BSF is working with other departments to provide them with CIT training. CIT is more than training. The heart of CIT is the development of collaborative relationships between police, mental health providers and mental health advocacy. BSF is committed to working with departments after their CIT training to help them develop productive relationships that can improve response and treatment for those with a mental illness in their community.
1ST, 2ND 3RD AND 4TH ANNUAL
Minnesota CIT conferences, Minneapolis
This day long conference provides and opportunity to meet with others from around Minnesota who are interested in CIT and in related systems in criminal justice and mental health systems. Go to the Home Page and the Events Page for all details.
