City of Lake Charles, Louisiana
Crisis Intervention Team
The Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a partnership program which joins local law enforcement and mental health practitioners (private & state), in an effort to provide those individuals in need with an efficient, effective, respectful, and compassionate response.
By providing frontline patrol officer with the knowledge and skills necessary to deal appropriately with families and individuals with mental illness or those experiencing an emotional crisis.
The Crisis Intervention Team training is a collaborative effort between the McNeese Department of Psychology, the Lake Charles Police Department, the Calcasieu Parish Sheriffs Office, Louisiana Department of Mental Health, Region V and the Lake Charles Chapter of NAMI. The Psychology Department coordinates academic and skills-based training for law enforcement officers on community-based crisis intervention. The 40 hour curriculum is a Louisiana P.O. S.T. approved curriculum developed by Dr. Melville and the psychology department under the direction of Dr. Melville.
Instructors for the training are national experts in their fields and are drawn from the MSU Psychology Department, the MSU College of Nursing, and local professionals with specialized expertise. Topics covered in the week-long, forty-hour course include, characteristics of mental illness and substance-use disorders, psychotropic medications, suicide intervention, post-traumatic stress disorders, verbal de-escalation skills and community resources.
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Lake Charles, LA 70601
- Telephone Number: 337-491-1456 x1285
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