Date of Award

Fall 10-27-2010

Degree Type

Thesis

Degree Name

Master of Public Administration (MPA)

Abstract

The Crisis Intervention Team in Butte County, California, is a collaborative effort of several agencies such as law enforcement, mental and behavioral health, consumers, and their families. This paper will evaluate the effectiveness of the Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) in Butte County. This author reviewed related scholarly CIT dissertations by using various databases such as EBSCO and Google Scholar. The methodology for research of this study is through surveys, interviews, and participant observation. This research project will target CIT officers, non-CIT officers, behavioral health staff and supervisors, and consumer in Butte County over an eight week period. This study revealed the increase in understanding of the person with mental illness. This paper offers a recommendation to create a high performance Crisis Intervention Team. A further area for research is a study of stigmatization of law enforcement toward consumers. The paper will target the CIT in Butte County over an eight-week period.

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