Crisis/Mental Health Counseling

I would like my staff of 50 Instructors trained in the Blue Courage program.

The Bill Blackwood Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas requests one Blue Courage Training for 30 police executives as an introduction to the Blue Courage program. The participants will evaluate the program, and if positively received, the two-day Blue Courage program will be added as part of the 5-day, 40-hour mandated professional development week of the Texas Police Chief Leadership Series. As a result, LEMI will then proceed with the Train-the-Trainer course of Blue Courage to qualify instructors to teach.

The Sandoval County District Court would like to receive some training and guidance with our pretrial services program. A general training in the research recommended functioning of how the program should be run as well as some support in the purchase or development of our own PTS risk assessment tool is very much needed.

We would like an expert, Dr. Stacey Patton, to attend a conference that will be held on June 10 and June 11, 2014 at Madison WI. This conference is regarding corporal punishment, and has the objective of educating key stakeholders in Dane County before commencing reform in the subject area. We are asking for travel assistance.

Community Justice 2014, which is being hosted by the Center for Court Innovation in partnership with the U.S.

GLT needs to develop a wellness-based strategic and comprehensive justice system, built upon the strength of individual components and bringing together our young Public Safety Department (established 2011) and Tribal Court (established 2010) with our more mature Health and Human Services (HHS) Department. Each of the three departments, Public Safety, the Court and HHS serves very specific needs of our citizens; yet there is not a mechanism in place to coordinate services.

Making Officers more aware of the dangers that could occur on everyday patrol.

Our program was recently featured in Miami by the Center for Court Innovation (contacts - Julius Lang and Rebecca Thomford Hauser) as one of 10 criminal justice innovation projects worth replicating nationwide. Operational for 4 years, we are currently having internal conversations about the level and delivery of accountability for our chosen repeat felony domestic violence offender population. Denise O'Donnell spoke in Miami about the HOPE probation program, led by Judge Alm, out of Hawaii.

DoJ Findings of 12 Sep 2012, posted here:
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2012/September/12-crt-1111.html
show patterns and practices of civil rights violations by the Portland Police Bureau.

BJA recognizes Crisis Intervention Team as a best practice for law enforcement jurisdictions throughout the United States. The program is designed to teach law enforcement officers the behavioral characteristics of mental illness and to provide officers with practical de-escalation skills to help them effectively mediate crisis situations involving people with mental illness while diverting those in crisis to treatment and other services instead of incarceration. BJA has been supportive of many CIT efforts, including the CIT International Conference for several years.