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Seminar: Texas Mental Health Training Initiative for Jails

Tuesday 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Room: 209

The Texas Mental Health Training Initiative for Jails is developing expanded curriculum that will be mandated for all new local detention officers in Texas as well as an optional mental health officer certification, including a crisis intervention trainer (CIT). The trainers will deliver the courses to new and existing jailers in their regions, especially in rural areas of the state. The initiative is a tremendous collaboration with federal, state, and local partners who are all focused on providing jail professionals with the level of training to increase their effectiveness in carrying out their enormous responsibilities in jails across the state. The professional individuals of the corrections profession are united in our interest to change the way we deal with people who have mental health issues and are wrongly detained in the criminal justice system.

SPEAKERS

Stephen Amos, Chief of the Jails Division for the National Institute of Corrections (NIC) and Doug Dretke, Executive Director of the Correctional Management Institute of Texas (CMIT).