Crisis Intervention Team

Crisis Intervention Team Training 

       

For registration click the link and search ‘MACIT’ for our local trainings: Training Dates - 2026 Missouri CIT Trainings.

Space is limited and preference is given to 1st responders.

Basic CIT Class

This is a law enforcement mental health crisis response model developed by the Memphis, Tenn., Police Department in 1988 teaching the de-escalation model of mental health crisis response. Designed for all law enforcement officers who respond to mental health crisis calls. It includes a 40-hour course curriculum approved by the Missouri Peace Officer Standards and Training Council. Knowledge base skills are provided through classroom instructional training, encompassing various mental health topics that address mental illnesses, developmental disabilities, and addictive diseases.

  • Site visits to local emergency receiving facilities and state psychiatric hospitals
  • Performance-based training involving the development of de-escalation techniques and crisis intervention skills via scenario based training
  • Introduction to Critical Incident Stress Management and Police Suicide and Suicide by Cop phenomenon.

CIT-Youth

The Mid-America Crisis Intervention Team Council (MACIT), working with NAMI-KC and regional mental health providers, expanded the existing CIT strategy by creating a supplemental 3-day, 24-hour training curriculum; “Crisis Intervention Teams for Youth”. CIT-Youth trains police officers on response techniques appropriate for youth with mental health needs. It is targeted to law enforcement officials who have previously undergone standard CIT training, who understand the basic principles and concepts of CIT, but who are looking for more specific information on youth.

CIT-Vet

The training is designed to provide officers an understanding of the veteran experience while also equipping them with tools and techniques to de-escalate potentially volatile situations, resulting in positive outcomes between law enforcement and veterans in crisis situations. This training module will build on the 40-hour instruction class CIT officers have already received and increase an officer’s skills, resources and options. This program was designed to provide law enforcement with both knowledge and the tools to effectively stem this growing public health issue.

Objectives:

  • Provide understanding of the experiences and challenges OEF/OIF veterans face during service in Iraq and Afghanistan, along with a cultural competency of military life and culture
  • Heighten awareness of the transitional obstacles current era veterans experience upon returning home, and the risk factors associated with their transition into civilian life
  • Detail the effects of post traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, allowing officers to identify and de-escalate crisis encounters with veterans who are suffering from these serious mental health injuries.
  • Provide officers with referral information needed to properly guide veterans to the assistance they may desperately need.

CIT Telecommunications

This FREE training will provide dispatchers and call takers with the knowledge and skills necessary to identify a mental health caller in crisis and to respond effectively. It will be conducted under the instructional supervision of local CIT trained police officers, mental health professionals, consumers, and family advocates and will offer practical techniques for de-escalating crisis calls.

Training topics will include:

  • Understanding Mental Illness
  • CIT Basic Overview
  • Gathering Information that is Helpful to Officers
  • Consumer Panel
  • Verbal De-escalation Techniques
  • Scenario-Based Training
  • Active Shooter Information
  • Vet Issues
  • Stress Management/Trauma Informed Care

All dispatchers, call takers and their supervisors in the Greater Metro Kansas City area are invited to attend.

CIT Paramedic

This is a four week, 40-hour program held on Fridays.  This class is designed to showcase the collaborative approach to managing people in crisis where they are and finding a creative and least restrictive model to address their inherent needs.  Paramedics can initiate an involuntary hold for mental health on a person that is believed to be a danger to themselves or others, or meets other psychosis related or drug induced conditions that warrant a mental health evaluation.  The law requires that paramedic that with to involuntarily hold someone must complete and pass a 40-hour CIT class.

Training Topics included:

  • Safe response
  • De-escalation techniques
  • Behavioral health disorders
  • Substance use and co-occurring disorders
  • Overdose care
  • Guardianship and POA understanding
  • Aging Interventions
  • EMS/Paramedic authority with civil detention laws

CIT Jail

This is 3 day, 24-hour program designed to focus on behavioral health crisis in a jail or detention facility designed for Detention Facility Officers (DFO’s) and Correctional Officers (CO’s) along with other detention/jail staff. This class will focus on de-escalation strategies that work in confined environments where movement is limited. This class emphasizes the rapport and relationship that correction officers may have with specific individuals due to daily contact. The class focuses on internal medical services and when it’s appropriate to utilize outside jail/detention services. The class also focuses on connecting them to treatment when their detention period is over to prevent recidivism and a lapse in treatment.

Gear Up 4 Mental Health

This class was designed for stakeholders, front line staff, security personnel and civilians who want an increased knowledge on the behavioral health crisis response system in the Kansas City Metro.  This is a 3 day, 24-hour training in which attendees will get a comprehensive look at the complexity of treatment and resources along with how they intersect with first responders to include: law enforcement, EMS, hospitals and mental health professionals.