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Crisis Intervention Training is a 40-hour program designed to improve the connections between law enforcement and individuals with mental illness.

Learn about this new training offered through the Academic Training Initiative to Inform Police Responses, developed with support from BJA.

The Corvallis Police Department was one of three law enforcement agencies selected to be apart of the pilot program.

More than half the student body lacked bystander training on assault, harassment, and other sexual and interpersonal violence issues. 

A new motion making its way through the House of Commons aiming to empower Canadians to intervene in situations where someone is being victimized.

Two years after first meeting at the bargaining table to hash out a new labor contract, the city of Portland and Portland Police Association (PPA)—the union representing rank-and-file members of the Portland Police Bureau—have reached a tentative contract agreement. The long-awaited agreement hinges on several accountability and reform measures that have been central to the city's promises of "reimagining policing" following Portland's 2020 racial justice protests. ...

Crisis Intervention Training is underway in Rochester with both the police department and Olmsted County Sheriff’s Office participating in the annual event.

A week-long training is taking place in Chattanooga for first responders all over the region.

Federal grant money is coming to Oklahoma to help law enforcement handle situations involving mental health.

SPRINGFIELD – Mayor Domenic Sarno has turned down a proposal to include in the FY22 budget a provision that would have created a crisis response team – a non-armed team of health professionals that could be dispatched to non-violent 911 calls such as intoxication and drug overdose, suicide risk...