Crisis Response and Behavioral Health
Crisis Response and Behavioral Health
The Center for Crisis Response and Behavioral Health trains first law enforcement officers, mental health professionals, and first responders 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 first responders.
About the Center
Through continuing education, webinars, symposia, and the nation's first practical academic training program in co-response, our programs 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 Crisis Response & Behavioral Health Certificate Program combines state-of-the-art technology with proven co-response methods and psychology training to teach ways to respond to dynamic, complex, and evolving situations, and to defuse and de-escalate 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.