The Eastern New Mexico Behavioral Health Leadership Council is hosting another training opportunity for the region, and will focus on law enforcement, probation/parole and detention professionals. It is provided with grant funding obtained through the New Mexico Sentencing Commission. The Advanced Crisis Intervention training will begin at 8:00 am each day, and attendance to all five days is a requirement. Location is pending and it will be held in either Portales or Clovis. The flyer for the training noting the training location will follow this email.

CIT Class Overview

The Advanced Crisis Intervention Class (ACIT) is designed to be a highly interactive five-day, 40-hour class, which focus on going beyond basic verbal de-escalation skills.  During the week-long class, participants will reinforce their knowledge regarding crises and how people respond or behave in crisis.  The concept of mental illness and its effect on the verbal interaction will be further addressed via high-intensity scenarios. Participants are expected to go beyond a basic awareness of mental illness and human behavior into an advanced arena of threat assessment techniques and approaches. Attendees will be actively engaged in over ten hours of live scenario situations that are not only field-based  crises, but enhanced to include case management and analysis, profile development, and long-term threat mitigation.  One of the goals of this course is to teach attendees how to be proactive instead of reactive.  We believe that if you can predict or anticipate behavior with some degree of accuracy you can create a safer city, county, or state.  Through the class activities, participants will gain an overall understanding that Advanced CIT goes beyond the short-term management of a person in crisis into a more challenging realm of long-term pattern identification and control.

The class instructors will be current law enforcement officers, police psychologists, mental health providers, and retired law enforcement officers with extensive expertise and experience in verbal de-escalation and crisis management. Dr. Troy Rodgers is a police psychologist based in Albuquerque, New Mexico.  He has a master’s degree and a doctorate in clinical forensic psychology.  He has worked with law enforcement officers for over 20 years.  At the present time, Dr. Rodgers works as a consultant to over 400 local, state, and federal law enforcement, firefighter, ambulance, and corrections agencies. Dr. Rodgers is also certified as a Professional Lecturer and Master Instructor by the New Mexico Department of Public Safety Training Academy.

Class size will be limited to 30 attendees. Please register in advance if you would like to attend.  You can register by visiting Crisis Intervention Training (CIT) Registration | Roosevelt County. All attendees will receive a training certificate, with the free CEUs provided to law enforcement, and detention/probation officers.  Registrations will be accepted until the class is full.

For more information, see the attached event flyer or contact the Roosevelt County Administrative Offices at 575.356.5307.