Crisis Response and Behavioral Health
Crisis Response and Behavioral Health
The Center for Crisis Response and Behavioral Health provides training and education to law enforcement and mental health professionals on effective response methods for encounters with individuals who are experiencing a psychiatric, substance-related, or mental health crisis. Programs address a critical need for reimagining and expanding roles and opportunities in public safety and seek to create effective partnerships between mental health and law enforcement.
About the Center
Through continuing education, webinars, an annual symposium, and the nation's first graduate certificate program program in Co-Response, our curriculum offer law enforcement and co-response clinicians the skills needed to identify, manage, and de-escalate situations involving persons in crisis.
Meet the Director
Dr. Sarah Abbott has dedicated her career to providing police agencies with a working roadmap to ensure that encounters with individuals in situational, substance-related, or mental health crises have safe and effective resolutions and that the mental health needs of persons involved in traumatic events, including the officers themselves, receive appropriate care and attention.
Academics
The Graduate Certificate in Crisis Response and Behavioral Health combines state-of-the-art technology with skills-based training and education to help guide police and clinicians to defuse complex and evolving situations before force is needed.
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International Co-Responder Alliance
The CRBH is a participating member of the International Co-Responder Alliance (ICRA). The ICRA was established to unite, promote, strengthen, and expand multi-disciplinary co-responder programs, while improving outcomes for first responders, behavioral health professionals and individuals affected by behavioral health issues.