Crisis Intervention Team Inc.
The Crisis Intervention Team Inc. (CIT Inc.) is a non-profit, 501(c)(3), organization in Albuquerque, NM founded by a detective and a physician to help avoid and minimize crisis through various, innovative programs focused on raising community standards around behavioral health and crisis intervention.
We are advocates for the Crisis Intervention Team model in communities and strive to enhance programs that are established and beginning. We believe in an open collaboration with all parties to bring together communities to better the lives of the people living there.
The CIT ECHO is a collaboration with UNM’s Project ECHO, the Albuquerque Police Department, and CIT, Inc. to bring specialty training, support, and knowledge in CIT policing and behavioral health to front line law enforcement personnel. It does this by engaging law enforcement and providers in a continuous case based learning system and partnering them with specialist mentors at an academic medical center or hub. This is continues ongoing training and does not replace a traditional CIT course.
The CARE Card program was created to reduce the negative impact for people with disabilities and whom they come in contact with. The cards came from the idea that if you could hand law enforcement a card with your disabilities and communication tips then both parties would have a better understanding and it would help reduce community tragedies and misunderstanding
We provide a wide range of consulting needs including establishing a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program, creating collaboration, training curriculum, overcoming hurdles, organization safety guidance, and much more.
The Helping Hand program is in place to give first responders resources needed to engage the most vulnerable population and help those in need. There is not one population over looked in this program. We have teamed up with Target to get toys, school supplies, blankets, and more in the vehicles of first responders. We partnered with the Roadrunner Food Bank to create cruiser bags, plastic bags of food and water, for law enforcement to carry in their vehicles. Cruiser bags help the most vulnerable with a source of nutrition and follow up information for food programs and programs for self-sufficiency. Donations also help provide first responders with access to emergency housing, food, medication, clothing, and other needs.
2012
Matthew Tinney
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