Lucas County
Crisis Intervention Team

A partnership between the mental health system, law enforcement, and the criminal justice system.

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Lucas County CIT Training Class

About the CIT Program

The Lucas County Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) program is a pre-arrest program designed to identify, de-escalate, and divert individuals who have a mental illness, an addiction, or a developmental disability that are in crisis, from the criminal justice system and into the appropriate health care system.

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Program Goals

  • Improve Officer and individual safety during crisis encounters
  • Redirect individuals with a mental illness from the criminal justice system and into the appropriate health care system
  • Increase Officer's knowledge of community resources for individuals who have a mental illness, an addiction, or a developmental disability and their family members
CIT Instructors
CIT Community Partnership

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Access training materials, course information, and resources for law enforcement professionals participating in the Lucas County CIT program.

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