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Improving Law Enforcement Responses to Persons with Mental Illness and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

This webinar provides strategies to improve the behavioral health crisis response for individuals with mental illnesses and intellectual & developmental disabilities (I/DD). It presents models of mental health crisis response, including Crisis Intervention Teams, mobile crisis, co-responder, and stand-alone mental health response training. It discusses how research addresses the effectiveness of models for responding to individuals with I/DD & directions for future research. Video run time: 1 hour 29 min.

Date Published: December 10, 2019