- Resources
CITi program resources
CIT Programs: A Best Practice Guide
The first comprehensive guide for communities to utilize best practices for starting and sustaining CITI programs.
CITI Program One-Pager
One-page overview of the definition of a CITI Program, core program elements, and the benefits of a CITI Program.
CITI Program Coordinator Description
An overview and listing of the core duties and expectations of a CITI Program Coordinator.
CITI Program Steering Committee Roles
An outline of the critical roles and responsibilities of CITI Program Steering Committee members.
- Resources
Reports and Documents
The Community Responder Model: How Cities Can Send the Right Responder to Every 911 Call
The Center for American Progress provides a report on establishing a new branch of civilian first responders and reducing over reliance on police.
Civilian Crisis Response: A Toolkit for Equitable Alternatives to Police
CIT is about building community crisis services to reduce the burden that has been placed on law enforcement to respond to crisis calls for service that do not require such response. Read about the new resource from the Vera Institute on building civilian crisis response teams.
Roadmap to the Ideal Crisis System
CIT International's Executive Director supplies a foreword from a global crisis intervention team perspective.
Interdepartmental Serious Mental Illness Coordinating Committee (ISMICC)
A US Federal Committee of ten federal agencies and 14 non-federal subject matter experts provide a report to the United States Congress on mental health services coordination of the federal agencies and recommendations.
Open Letter in Response to Executive Order in Response to Safe Policing for Safe Communities
CIT International join with national organizations in an open letter.
Taking the Lead: Investing in Community Crisis Response / Continuum
Eight countries come together to develop a declaration on the core elements of systemic quality crisis care.
National Guidelines for Behavioral Health Crisis Care - A Best Practice Toolkit
U.S. SAMHSA puts forth a document detailing the best practices of crisis response.
Behavioral Health Crisis Alternatives: Shifting from Police to Community Responses
Vera Institute of Justice provides a report on crisis response options that reduce law enforcement's responsibility for responding to all crises.
Crisis Services: Effectiveness, Cost-Effectiveness, and Funding Strategies
U.S. SAMHSA puts forth a report that presents evidence in support of crisis services including crisis stabilization, community-based residential crisis care, and mobile crisis response.
Crises Now: Transforming Services is Within Our Reach
National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention puts forth a report providing recommendations for transforming crisis response systems.
Crisis Response Services for People with Mental Illness or Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities
Vera Institute of Justice provides a report of a review of the literature on police-based and other first response models.
The Michigan Mental Health Diversion Council: A Milestone Report on a Decade of Growth and Progress
Presented by the Michigan Mental Health Diversion Council and Wayne State University Center for Behavioral Health and Justice