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A Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) is a police mental health collaborative program found in North America. [1] The term "CIT" is often used to describe both a program and a training in law enforcement to help guide interactions between law enforcement and those living with a mental illness.
The type of intervention used depended on the situation, the number of people involved, and their proximity to the event. One form of intervention was a three-step approach, whereas different approaches include as many as five stages. [citation needed] However, the exact number of steps is not what is important for the intervention's success.
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Critical Incident Stress Debriefing is a crisis intervention program that is used to provide initial psychosocial relief to rescue workers. It is generally conducted in a group session and held between 24 and 72 hours of the disaster. Each debriefing session follows seven phases: Introduction to set rules; fact phase to establish what happened
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CAHOOTS (Crisis Assistance Helping Out On The Streets) is a mental-health-crisis intervention program in Eugene, Oregon, which has handled some lower-risk emergency calls involving mental illness and homelessness since 1989. [1] This makes it the earliest, or one of the earliest, Mobile Crisis Teams.
The program was one of the first of its kind in Pennsylvania and has blossomed into a model for the rest of the state.