Meet some of OACP's  Annual Conference Presenters:

Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT)

 Julie Collinson, MA, NCC, LPC, DPSST | Joe Miller, DPSST | Dan Brown, CIS Oregon |  Ridg Medford, OCBHJI | Chief Marcia Harnden, Albany PD

 Topic: “Innovative Approaches to Crisis Response: Insights from Oregon CIT" 

 CIT is a community collaboration program which brings together community resources to promote the best possible outcomes for people experiencing behavioral health, intellectual/developmental disabilities, and/or neurocognitive concerns, who come in contact with the criminal justice system due to behaviors correlated with their conditions.  Its focus is to facilitate access to treatment rather than placement into the criminal justice system.  CIT provides a community forum for effective problem-solving and context for sustainable systematic change.

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