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Additional Resources for CIT for Youth Implementation

Step 1: Building Community Partnerships

These resources are available to assist you in building community partnerships and understanding your community's needs. They are referenced in Step 1 of the Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual.

• CIT Advocacy Toolkit
  Learn more about working with community partners to apply for grants to fund CIT for Youth.
• NAMI Child and Adolescent Action Center
  Access a wide range of resources on child, adolescent and young adult mental health.
• Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion Tips
  Learn how to engage and include representatives of the diverse cultures in your community in your CIT for Youth program.
• NAMI's Multicultural Engagement and Inclusion Guide
  Provides information on how to engage and includecultures represented in your community.
• U.S. Census Bureau State and County QuickFacts
  Review data from your community in order to engage community leaders representing your community's various cultures.

Step 2: Conducting Asset Mapping

These resources are available to assist you in creating a map of the resources available in your community. They are referenced in Step 2 of the Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual.

• Community Resource Mapping: Knowing Your Youth Services Landscape
  Review a variety of models for mapping community services and supports for youth.
• FindYouthInfo.gov
  Find services and supports available in your community for youth with mental health needs.
• Improving Secondary Education and Transition for Youth With Disabilities: Community Resources Mapping
  Provides instructions on understanding, planning, and engaging in the coordination of community resources that support the transition of youth into adult life.
• Let's Talk: A Dialogue for NAMI State Organizations and Affiliates
  Provides valuable tools on how to effectively facilitate a meeting.
• The Asset-Based Community Development Institute
  Learn how to take a strength-based approach to improving services and supports for youth in your community.

Step 3: Planning and Coordinating

These resources are available to assist you in figuring out the "nuts and bolts" of CIT for Youth implementation and in sharing resources for families and youth, law enforcement officers and school personnel that will help make CIT for Youth more effective. They are referenced in Step 3 of the Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual.

• Appendix H Summary of Information Privacy Laws and Guidance from U.S. Department of Education
  Provides a comprehensive summary of the privacy laws related to sharing health information about students.
• NAMI's State Advocacy Website
  Learn more about how to advocate for effective services and supports for youth in your community that can complement CIT for Youth.
• Family Advocacy: Crisis Intervention Programs forYouth Strengthening Schools and Communities
  Find out how family advocates can promote the need for CIT for Youth programs in their communities.
• Law Enforcement Advocacy: Promoting Crisis Intervention Programs for Youth in Schools and Communities
  Learn how law enforcement officers can promote the need for CIT for Youth programs in their communities.

Resources for Families

• NAMI Basics
  Review information about NAMI's education program for parents and caregivers of youth living with mental illness.
• Child and Adolescent Action Center
  Access a wide range of resources on child, adolescent and young adult mental health issues.

Sample Family Resource Guide

• Keeping Families Together Resource Guide (Minnesota)
  Provides an example of Minnesota's resource guide for families onintensive treatment options in their state.
• Mercer County Children's Resource Guide (New Jersey)
  Provides an example of New Jersey's resource guide for families on children's mental health services in their state.

Sample Resources for Law Enforcement Officers

• Louisiana Pocket Guide (coming soon)
• Utah Prescription Sheet (coming soon)
• Manual: Responding to Children and Youth with Mental Health Needs
  Provides an example of a resource guide for law enforcement officers responding to youth in a mental health crisis.
• Police Pocket Guide: Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs
  Provides an example of a resource guide for law enforcement officers responding to youth in a mental health crisis.

Resources for School Personnel

• Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports
  Access information on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, a framework to improve student academic and behavior outcomes by ensuring all students have access to the most effective and accurately implemented instructional and behavioral practices and interventions possible.
• Parents and Teachers as Allies
  Review information on NAMI's Parents and Teachers as Allies program, a two-hour, in-service education program for school personnel on the early warning signs of mental illness and the lived experience of mental illness.

Step 4: Planning a CIT for Youth Training

Visit the CIT for Youth Resource Center and click on "Training Information" for resources on planning a CIT for Youth training that are referenced in Step 4 of the Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual

Step 5: Measuring Effectiveness and Ensuring Sustainability

These resources are available to assist you in understanding how to measure the effectiveness of your CIT for Youth program and ensure its sustainability. They are referenced in Step 5 of the Responding to Youth with Mental Health Needs: A CIT for Youth Implementation Manual.

• A Focus Group Report: A Conversation with CIT Trained School Resource Officers
  Learn more about what school resource officers (SROs) value in a CIT for Youth training to make your training more effective. Consider hosting a similar focus group to get feedback from SROs in your community.
• SurveyMonkey
  Provides tools for you to create free web-based surveys to evaluate your CIT for Youth program.
• NAMI's Public Relations 101 Tool Kit
  Provides guidance on how to market and promote your efforts to the media.
• E-Consortium of University Centers and Researchers for Partnership with Justice Practitioners
  Connects local, state, federal and other groups to nearby (or other) university researchers and centers on partnerships and projects that are mutually beneficial.

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