A National Model
How many police agencies have adopted the program?
What is 2,700
What is the National Alliance on Mental Illness?
It estimates that there is now one in four adults approximately 61.5 million Americans have a Mental Illness.
What is Homelessness?
A condition of people who lack regular legal access to adequate housing.
As for Memphis, they have a great program called?
(Crisis Intervention Team) Which helps law enforcement respond to mental health crisis.
What does Kris look like?
Goob from "Meet the Robinsons"
What is CIT?
Officers specialized training for officers in dealing with the emotionally disturbed and linking police with mental health professionals.
T/F Officer injury date has increased substantially since the program began
False
What percentage of homeless people have indicators of mental health problems?
What is 45%
the city has initiatives to address homelessness?
Like the community Alliance for the Homeless.
How many kids does Mr. Perez have?
What is 2
What happened in 1988?
Police in Memphis, Tennessee, shot and killed a twenty-seven-year-old emotionally disturbed man who was welding a knife.
Studies have shown that the CIT program has resulted in a decrease in arrest rates for the ____
Mentally ill
What percentage of Homeless people have some sort of Mental Health Issue?
What is 25% homeless people
Memphis Collaborates through?
What is bad for dogs?
What is chocolate, Raisian, Avocado, Garlic, Mcandemian nuts, caffeine, Alcohol, and Dairy
Mental illness is defined as?
A medical condition that disrupts a person's thinking feeling, mood, ability to relate to others, and daily functioning.
Mental Illness is a sense of?
Dignity
How many homeless military veterans are there?
What is 26,500 homeless military veterans
___ _______ of police calls for service calls involve people whose behavior ranges from ________ to serious ______ _______.
20 percent, dysfunctional, Mental Illness.
What is Juan's favorite color?
What is Blue
Memphis has approximately?
225 such officers about 8 percent of the total force who work with mental health providers, family advocates, and mental health consumer groups.
CIT program has decreased in?
Arrest
How many people experience homelessness on any given night in the U.S.?
What is 643,000
What does the CIT program do?
Trains volunteered officers to respond to crisis calls that present officers to deal with people with Mental problems.
How old is central?
What is 116 years old