LIVE: Reshaping Law Enforcement Interactions with Persons with a Mental Disability: Suggestions and Solutions
9:00 AM - 10:30 AM Pacific
1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs
Live Training via Zoom
Michael Perlin, JD and Heather Ellis Cucolo, JD present a live virtual professional training program on Reshaping Law Enforcement Interactions with Persons with a Mental Disability: Suggestions and Solutions in partnership with the Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates.
This program will examine what precipitates the "media highlighted" interactions that occur between law enforcement and persons with a mental disability and the misinformation and frustrations that result. The speakers will dissect the broad application of "police reform" and discuss some of the early (and recent) failures that have been instituted across the nation. By analyzing crisis intervention training models (CIT) and other successful programs, the hope is to present effective solutions.
Participants will be offered a road map that will exemplify realistic modifications that have been shown through research and studies to have a beneficial impact on law enforcement and the mental health community as a whole.
This training is intended for social workers, police officers, law enforcement personnel, advocates, psychologists, researchers, criminal justice specialists, mental health workers, hospital ER doctors, and nurses at stages of career and a vast variety of environments.
Training Outline:
- Media highlighted events
- Vera Institute research
- Broken windows theory/ Newark's “blue summonses”
- Camden model
- CIT programs: Memphis model/ CAHOOTS/ Mobile crisis teams (MCT)
- NYPD Behavioral Health Unit
- California "deadly force" reform
- Continuity of care
- Current research: Robin Engel; Cynthia Lum; Erin Kerrison