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Crisis Intervention Training Improves Law Enforcement-Mental Health Connections  


Author:  Kurt  Haberkorn.; Mike  Lopez.


Source: Volume 09, Number 06, March/April 2006 , pp.87-88(2)




Offender Programs Report

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Abstract: 

This article highlights the planning process, implementation, and results of a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) in Kansas. The CIT program showed promise of potential benefits such as reduced problematic contacts between law enforcement and mentally ill persons and reduced incarceration, hospitalization and frequency of emergency room contacts of mentally ill persons.

Keywords: mental health programming

Affiliations:  1: Mental Health Center of East Central Kansas; 2: Deputy Chief of Police,Emporia, KS.

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