Decriminalizing Mental Illness: A Practical Model for Building Sustainable Crisis Intervention Teams

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Crisis Intervention Teams divert people living with mental illness from jail with appropriate 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.

To further increase your odds for success, Decriminalizing Mental Illness introduces MAGNUS-OVÉA New Wave leadership, based on character development and holistic individual potential.

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