Crisis Intervention Team Training Calendar

For questions about training, please contact

Officer Teurika Humphrey
KCPD-Crisis Intervention Team
Office:  816-581-0699
[email protected]

To register, law enforcement and civilian personnel must contact

Sally Boone (ReDiscover)
816-875-0209
[email protected]

Basic CIT Class

This is a law enforcement mental health crisis response model developed by the Memphis, Tenn., Police Department in 1988 teaching the de-escalation model of mental health crisis response. Designed for all law enforcement officers who respond to mental health crisis calls. It includes a 40-hour course curriculum approved by the Missouri Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. Knowledge base skills are provided through classroom instructional training, encompassing various mental health topics that address mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases.

• Site visits to local emergency receiving facilities and state psychiatric hospitals
• Performance-based training involving the development of de-escalation techniques and crisis intervention skills via scenario based training
• Introduction to Critical Incident Stress Management and Police Suicide and Suicide by Cop phenomenon. See the brochure for more information.

2025 Training:

CIT-Youth

The Mid-America Crisis Intervention Team Council (MACIT), working with NAMI-KC and regional mental health providers, expanded the existing CIT strategy by creating a supplemental 4-day, 32-hour training curriculum; “Crisis Intervention Teams for Youth”. CIT-Youth trains police officers on response techniques appropriate for youth with mental health needs. It is targeted to law enforcement officials who have previously undergone standard CIT training, who understand the basic principles and concepts of CIT, but who are looking for more specific information on youth.

2025 Training:

CIT-Vet

The training is designed to provide officers an understanding of the veteran experience while also equipping them with tools and techniques to de-escalate potentially volatile situations, resulting in positive outcomes between law enforcement and veterans in crisis situations. This training module will build on the 40-hour instruction class CIT officers have already received and increase an officer’s skills, resources and options. This program was designed to provide law enforcement with both knowledge and the tools to effectively stem this growing public health issue.

Objectives:

• Provide understanding of the experiences and challenges OEF/OIF veterans face during service in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a cultural competency of military life and culture
• Heighten awareness of the transitional obstacles current era veterans experience upon returning home, and the risk factors associated with their transition into civilian life
• Detail the effects of post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, allowing officers to identify and de-escalate crisis encounters with veterans who are suffering from these serious mental health injuries.
• Provide officers with referral information needed to properly guide veterans to the assistance they may desperately need.

2025 Training:

CIT Telecommunications

This FREE training will provide dispatchers and call takers with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify a mental health caller in crisis and to respond effectively. It will be conducted under the instructional supervision of local CIT trained police officers, mental health professionals, consumers, and family advocates and will offer practical techniques for de-escalating crisis calls.

Training topics will include:

• Understanding Mental Illness
• CIT Basic Overview
• Gathering Information that is Helpful to Officers
• Consumer Panel
• Verbal De-escalation Techniques
• Scenario-Based Training
• Active Shooter Information
• Vet Issues
• Stress Management/Trauma Informed Care

All dispatchers, call takers and their supervisors in the Greater Metro Kansas City area are invited to attend.

2025 Training: