Decriminalizing Mental Illness

Innovative Inspirational and Above All Practical and Proven. Crisis Intervention Teams divert people living with mental illness from jail with practical alternatives. Decriminalizing Mental Illness offers effective strategies for building a permanent Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program based on a confirmed easy-to-follow process of capacity building. It will help you: • Establish community networking and fundraising to support your CIT program. • Decide the program’s scope and structure given your community’s unique situation. • Implement your process with a checklist of field-proven Effective Practices. • Create true collaboration between law enforcement and mental health professionals. • Choose the venue format and personnel for training those involved. • Take your CIT program from conception to a self-sustaining community service.. “CIT is the best idea for addressing a major problem for local municipalities— what to do with the mentally ill. Decriminalizing Mental Illness is the most powerful blueprint for getting the job done.” — George F. Breedy Captain St. Charles Parish Sheriff’s Office