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SPI Webinar: Community Responses to People in Crisis
Registration is now open for an upcoming SPI webinar!
On November 2, 2016 from 2:00-3:30 p.m. eastern, the Smart Policing Initiative will present a webinar on “Community Responses to People in Crisis.” This webinar will focus on the role of policing in assisting communities in addressing mental health concerns and describe a range of response strategies for agencies to consider. Dr. Laura Kunard, Senior Research Scientist from CNA, will facilitate this webinar. Dr. Kunard will provide an overview of police-mental health collaboration models in the U.S. and review of key features of effective community-police partnerships regarding mental health. The webinar will feature three case studies of law enforcement response models to mental health. Sergeant Kelly Bush, Corporal Thomas Kelly, and Corporal Kannika Nimithkoune from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office will share their County’s strategy for addressing high utilizers of services. They will also present an overview of their agency’s community mental health response strategy. Lieutenants Brian Bixler and Charles Dempsey from the Los Angeles Police Department will describe a multi-layered approach that includes co-response teams, follow-up case managers, and triage/dispatch operators. Finally, Detective Brandee Casias from Salt Lake City Police Department will describe a regional crisis intervention training approach used across the state of Utah.
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This project was supported by Grant No. 2013-DP-BX-K006 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.
