Certificate in RESPOND: Law Enforcement-Mental Health Response Team
Improve crisis response for individuals affected by mental illness.
RESPOND: Law Enforcement-Mental Health Response Team Overview
In this program, law enforcement and mental health professionals receive evidence-based education and training in how to effectively and compassionately respond to emergency calls involving individuals with mental illness. Earn this certificate and earn to work together in ways that improve outcomes for those in crisis and the people around them.
The program covers basic concepts of mental illness, including signs and symptoms, indications of pending crises, approaches to de-escalation, and more. It explores the unique culture of police and sheriff departments and the basics of working within the law enforcement community, providing mental health professionals with guidelines for collaborating with law enforcement and supporting a successful partnership that improves community safety.
Program Highlights
Offered Online
The program is offered online giving you the flexibility to complete your coursework virtually.
Evidence-Based Expertise
Work and study with the field’s top professionals, building your expertise in applying evidence-based skills in crises involving individuals with mental illness.
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Curriculum Plan
Course 1: Responding to Individuals in Crisis
This course covers the basic concepts associated with mental illness, mental health crises, violence risk, and behavioral threat assessment. The features associated with specific mental illnesses, including signs and symptoms and behavioral indicators of potential crises, are explored. De-escalation and risk management strategies are reviewed. The course provides you with options to focus on community or school-based applications.
Course 2: Model Law Enforcement-Mental Health Response Initiatives
This course covers the basic concepts associated with mental illness, mental health crises, violence risk, and behavioral threat assessment. The features associated with specific mental illnesses, including signs and symptoms and behavioral indicators of potential crises, are explored. De-escalation and risk management strategies are reviewed. The course provides students with options to focus on community or school-based applications.
Course 3: Expanding the Impact of Law Enforcement-Mental Health Response Initiative
This course reviews innovative, supplemental strategies such as dispatch protocols, safe school campaigns, and community-based public/private partnerships that can assist in improving crisis and threat response practices and the wellbeing of the individuals involved. The course provides options to focus on the ways in which impact can be enhanced in the community or in school-based settings.