CIT International
IACP 2019
CIT International is a nonprofit membership organization whose primary purpose is to facilitate understanding, development, and implementation of Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) programs throughout the U.S. and worldwide in order to promote and support collaborative efforts to create and sustain more effective interactions among law enforcement, mental health care providers, individuals with mental illnesses, their families, and communities and to reduce the stigma of mental illness. CIT programs are community-based programs that bring together law enforcement services, mental health services, mental health advocates, and other partners to improve community responses to mental health crises while reducing the interaction with the criminal justice system including law enforcement.