The CIT-NJ (Crisis Intervention Team Program) was established here in New Jersey in 2007, based on the evidence based best practice, CIT Memphis Model. The (CIT-NJ) program is an innovative international police model that incorporates collaboration between the community’s law enforcement system and mental health system to respond to the needs of those in psychiatric…
Members of the Hope One outreach program and police canvassing Atlantic County during the annual count of the homeless saved the life of a homeless man who was overdosing Friday morning. The Hope One workers and local police found a man who was suffering from an overdose and quickly administered Narcan to save his life….
An 85-year-old diabetic from Pennsylvania who was reported missing was rescued overnight by a South Hackensack police officer nearly 150 miles from home. Officer Ashley Lagrosa, a graduate of our 1-Day Telecommunicator CIT program in 2018, spotted the Reading, PA man’s car parked on the side of Phillips Avenue between Routes 80 and 46 around…