New Haven| In 1991, The New Haven Police Department partnered with The Yale Child Study Center to form the renowned Child Development-Community Policing Program.
In New Haven, mental health professionals are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week and ride with officers on the second shift, to respond immediately to police calls involving child victims or witnesses to violence. Working together, police, mental health professionals, child protective service and other providers, coordinate multi-system interventions that re-establish safety, security and well-being in the immediate wake of violent events. CD-CP has served as a model for law enforcement-mental health partnerships around the world. This work also led to the development of the only evidence-based early family strengthening mental health treatment – the Child and Family Traumatic Stress Intervention.
As pioneers in the collaboration between mental health professionals and police officers, both the YCSC and NHPD have hosted informative visits to police health care agencies for years. The collaboration between YCSC and NHPD led to the development of a national toolkit to enhance officer’s capacity to respond to children and families exposed to violence http://www.theiacp.org/Portals/0/documents/pdfs/CEVToolkitOnlineVersion.pdf
Beginning Tuesday, 1 May, 2018, visitors from the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department in Missouri will be visiting New Haven to study the
practices of the CDCP program. SLMPD members will be assigned to ride along with officers and clinicians on their tours of duty and participate in the multi-agency weekly meeting at the YCSC at the Yale School of Medicine.
PRESS EVENT ◊
WHEN: Wednesday, 2 May at 10:30 AM
WHERE: Yale Child Study Center, 230 South Frontage Road, in the Senn Conference Room
WHAT: Program Meeting
WHO: YCSC mental health care professionals, NHPD rank & file officers and command staff and visitors from the SLMPD
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