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Improving responses to people with mental illnesses : tailoring law enforcement initiatives to individual jurisdictions / Melissa Reuland, Laura Draper, Blake Norton.

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Canadian Policing Research

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Description

1 online resource (xi, 52 pages)

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"A report prepared by the Council of State Governments Justice Center and the Police Executive Research Forum for the Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice"--Title page.

Summary

"A growing number of law enforcement agencies have partnered with mental health agencies and community groups to design and implement innovative programs to improve encounters involving people with mental illnesses. These “specialized policing responses” (SPRs) are designed to produce better outcomes from these encounters by training responders to use crisis de-escalation strategies and prioritize treatment over incarceration when appropriate. This report explores the program design process, including detailed examples from several communities from across the country. It is meant to assist initiative leaders and agents of change who want to select or adapt program features from models that will be most effective in their communities. To ensure that this material has practical value, staff members from the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center and the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) visited four jurisdictions with extensive experience with SPRs to examine their decision-making and program development processes (selected based on a range of characteristics such as diverse objectives, jurisdiction size, and program model type). During each visit, project staff interviewed relevant stakeholders and observed initiative activities. The four jurisdictions selected were Akron, Ohio; Fort Wayne, Ind.; Los Angeles, Calif.; and New River Valley, Va."--Pages viii-ix.

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Online Access

Contents

Section I. Step by step: the program design process -- Step 1. Understand the problem -- Step 2. Articulate program goals and objectives -- Step 3. Identify data-collection procedures needed to revise and evaluate the program -- Step 4. Detail jurisdictional characteristics and their influence on program responses -- Step 5. Establish response protocols -- Step 6. Determine training requirements -- Step 7. Prepare for program evaluation -- Section II. From the field: program Design in Action -- Tailoring Specialized Policing response programs to specific problems -- Tailoring specialized policing response programs to jurisdictional characteristics -- Appendix A. Site visit information -- Appendix B. Document development -- Appendix C: Program design worksheet.

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