Mental Health

I am a new Chief of Police to this organization. I need assistance with statistically capturing our crime rates, and I also need assistance with planning and implementing a data driven organization. In essence, I need help with finding what our problems are, and then finding the hardware, software, and training so that we can effectively allocate our manpower.

The Center for Public Safety and Justice (CPSJ), located within the University of Illinois, proposed to work with the University of Memphis to complete a BJA-approved national curriculum on the topic of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training for police professionals. This engagement was subsequently transferred to CNA after the key curriculum developer accepted a position with CNA.

Trying to secure funding to bring Blue Courage Training to their area. BJA NTTAC referred this request to CICP.

The Michigan State Police (MSP), respectfully requests Training and Technical Assistance (TTA) from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) to host ten two-day Blue Courage training sessions to address issues of officer cynicism, ethical decision making based on principled courage, dedication/devotion to the profession, health and wellness, and resilience to the stress of law enforcement.

We are facing a problem with both tenured and junior sworn personnel who need a re-commitment to the basic principles of the profession, either due to tenure, lack of maturity, and many other reasons. We have also faced a few recent challenges in decision making regarding off duty actions that have resulted in a lot of bad publicity, reduction in public trust and some good people making poor choices resulting in significant discipline.

Interested in funding available for Blue Courage training. BJA NTTAC referred this request to CICP.

Our agency is representing this training request for the law enforcement agencies within our regional association, which includes three counties on the western border of Arizona (Mohave, LaPaz, and Yuma Counties). We would like to host this training for multiple agencies (approx. 20) as we are the central location for our regional academy and association. We would like NTTAC's assistance in providing the training "Blue Courage" to all of our officers over a multiple day format to allow our agencies to cycle our officers through the program.

We are putting together a peer support program for our Officers and we need initial training to get started. Our officers are faced with stressful incidents and we need additional tools and resources to help them deal with problems and return to work. Our new policy incorporates group debriefings and individual counseling with mental health providers. We also have options and resources for religious counseling if the employee wishes. We would like to add the option of peer support, particularly when it involves a critical incident which involves lethal force.

We are requesting assistance with securing Blue Courage training. We are a non-profit agency and facilitate in-service training for (56) agencies, including the City of Flint. The City of Flint Chief of Police asked us to look into this training a few months ago, however, funding the training was not possible. His agency, as well as some of our others, has been decimated by staffing cuts. Additionally, Flint has the highest homicide rate in the nation. They have right around 100,000 population and experienced (67) homicides last year.

We have an over-whelming request from Sheriff's, Constable's, Chiefs, officers-deputies as well as from school district administrators to host multiple 4-hour blocks of instruction) work shops on Grant writing; specifically for federal government grants pertaining to; school safety & security; hiring of additional school resource officers; community & public safety etc.