Nevada Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)

Nevada Crisis Intervention Team (CIT):

First Responder Wellness

First responders face many stressful challenges and experiences that can affect their physical and mental wellbeing. COVID- 19 has elevated this through heightened tensions in community, higher risk of exposure, and increased work hours. Self-care, including adequate nutrition and hydration and sleep hygiene, is an extremely important part of mental and physical health.

CIT Nevada Mission

To decrease stigma and increase understanding of mental illness and substance use issues (known as behavioral health issues) by supporting and expanding CIT programs in Nevada through the following functions:

To increase community awareness and education of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training.
Facilitate CIT coordinator collaboration across Nevada to assist in programmatic standardization and alignment with best practices.
Enhance emergency responder and community provider skillfulness in interactions with individuals with behavioral health concern.

Nevada Sworn Deputies That Are CIT Trained

Carson City

Carson City Sheriff

1%

Churchill

Fallon Police Department

2%

Churchill Sheriff's Department

3%

Clark

Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department

4%

Boulder City Policy Department

5%

Henderson Police Department

6%

Mesquite Police Department

7%

North Las Vegas Police Department

8%

Tribal Police Department

9%

Clark County Sheriff's Department

10%

Douglas

Douglas County Sheriff

11%

Elko

Elko County Sheriff

12%

Elko Police Department

13%

Carlin Policy Department

14%

West Wendover Police Department

15%

Wells Tribal Law Enforcement

16%

Eureka

Eureka County Sheriff

17%

Esmeralda

Esmeralda County Sheriff

18%

Humboldt

Humboldt County Sheriff

19%

Winnemucca Police Department

20%

Lander

Lander County Sheriff

21%

Lincoln

Lincoln County Sheriff

22%

Lyon

Lyon County Sheriff

23%

Yerington Police Department

24%

Mineral

Mineral County Sheriff

25%

Nye

Nye County Sheriff

26%

Pershing

Lovelock Police Department

27%

Storey

Storey County Sheriff

28%

Washoe

Washoe County Sheriff

29%

Reno Policy Department

30%

Sparks Police Department

31%

White Pine

White Pine County Sheriff

32%

Ely Police Department

33%

Statewide

Nevada Department of Public Safety

Nevada Highway Patrol

34%

Nevada Parole and Probation

35%

Nevada Department of Corrections

Northern Nevada Correctional Center

36%

What is CIT?

Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) training is a 40-hour evidence based behavioral health training model focused on first responders that brings together law enforcement, mental health providers, hospital staff, and individuals with mental illness, and their families to improve responses to people in crisis.
CIT trainings enhance communication between providers, learn about community behavioral health resources, and develop participant skills in responding to those in behavioral health crisis. CIT trainings are unique to each community region so that resources and information are tailored to the local needs of the participants in the training. The trainings are provided at no cost, as the CIT coordinators community leadership, and presenters donate time, resources, and effort to provide this necessary training.

Also known as the “Memphis Model”, CIT was developed in Memphis, Tennessee in 1988 after it was these shootings, local police, the University of Tennessee, and National Alliance on Mental Illness came together in a collaborative effort and developed the 40 hour training with a core curriculum (For more information on the core curriculum, please visit the resources page).

CIT is based on a five-legged stool:

Police Training
Community Collaboration
Vibrant and Accessible Crisis System
Behavioral Health Staff Training
Family, Consumer, and Advocates Collaboration and Education

The basic goals of CIT are to:

Improve consumer and officer safety.
Assist individuals with behavioral health issues and addiction disorders access community treatment and resources in an effort to divert them from the criminal justice system.

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Benefits of CIT?

Outcome research has shown CIT to be effective through the following:

Improved officer knowledges, attitudes, and self- efficacy in responding to mental health crisis.
Decreased levels of officer use of force through emphasizing de-escalation and linkage to mental health services.
Improved community confidence in officer response to mental health calls.
Decreased system costs through diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal.
Justice system and hospital ER’s.
Improved the likelihood of treatment continuity with community based providers.

Cost savings through
diversion

CIT assists in developing community partnerships that allow for increased access to services and improved continuum of care for individuals in mental health crisis. This provides opportunities for diversion from more costly services such as hospital ER’s and decreases the likelihood of repeated arrests and incarcerations.

Community Outreach

CIT is a core component of community behavioral health crisis intervention and outreach programs such as Mobile Outreach Safety Teams (MOST) that pair a clinician, law enforcement officer, and/ or an emergency services paramedic to provide multi-disciplinary response to individuals with behavioral health crises.

Community collaboration
and partnerships

CIT training is open to not just law enforcement, but other community providers such as hospitals, schools, social services, treatment providers, and others.

Our Partners

CIT is a community collaborative effort that involves partners such as:

Outcome research has shown CIT to be effective through the following:

Improved officer knowledges, attitudes, and self- efficacy in responding to mental health crisis.
Decreased levels of officer use of force through emphasizing de-escalation and linkage to mental health services.
Improved community confidence in officer response to mental health calls.
Decreased system costs through diverting individuals with mental illness from the criminal.
Justice system and hospital ER’s.
Improved the likelihood of treatment continuity with community based providers.

Ongoing CIT trainings build strong relationships across disciplines, allowing communities to be more flexible and responsive in supporting individuals with behavioral health needs.

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