CIT

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.