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CIT Rockingham County

EMS Training Room
Reidsville, NC

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CIT was developed in 1988 when the Memphis Police Department joined in partnership with the Memphis Chapter of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), mental health providers, and two local universities (the University of Memphis and the University of Tennessee) in organizing, training, and implementing a specialized unit. Since that time CIT has been adopted in hundreds of communities throughout the United States as well as several other countries.

The training consists of classroom lectures, field visits, and role plays where officers practice de-escalation skills. The individual blocks of training are prepared by skilled mental health professionals who have a particular area of expertise. As well, site visits to community resources that support the mentally ill and conversations with consumers and family members at the field visits and during the consumer and family panels greatly expand learning opportunities. The training concludes with several hours of role plays in which mental health professionals play the role of consumers in crisis and the CIT officers-in-training practice de-escalation skills.