MDLPA: Reshaping Law Enforcement Interactions with Persons with a Mental Disability: Suggestions and Solutions
1.5 Hours | 1.5 CEs
This on-demand professional training program on Reshaping Law Enforcement Interactions with Persons with a Mental Disability: Suggestions and Solutions is presented by Michael Perlin, JD, and Heather Ellis Cucolo, JD in partnership with Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates (MDLPA).
This program examines what precipitates the "media highlighted" interactions that occur between law enforcement and persons with a mental disability and the misinformation and frustrations that result. The speakers dissect the broad application of "police reform" and discuss some of the early (and recent) failures that have been instituted across the nation. By analyzing crisis intervention training models (CIT) and other successful programs, the hope is to present effective solutions.
Participants are offered a road map that exemplifies realistic modifications that have been shown through research and studies to have a beneficial impact on law enforcement and the mental health community as a whole.
This program is intended for social workers, police officers, law enforcement personnel, advocates, psychologists, researchers, criminal justice specialists, mental health workers, hospital ER doctors, and nurses at stages of their careers and a wide variety of environments.
Program Outline
- Media highlighted events
- Vera Institute research
- Broken windows theory/ Newark's “blue summonses”
- Camden model
- CIT programs: Memphis model/ CAHOOTS/ Mobile crisis teams (MCT)
- NYPD Behavioral Health Unit
- California "deadly force" reform
- Continuity of care
- Current research: Robin Engel; Cynthia Lum; Erin Kerrison
Intended Audience
This on-demand professional training program is intended for mental health and other allied professionals
Experience Level
This on-demand professional training program is appropriate for beginner, intermediate, and advanced level clinicians.
CE / CPD Credit
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Learning Objectives
Upon completion of this program you will be able to:
Describe examples of the "typical" interactions that occur between law enforcement and persons with a mental disability, and understand the dynamics that lead to frustrations (on all sides) and critical calls for reform
Describe the broad application of "police reform" and become familiar with some of the proposed solutions and methods that have failed in their objectives
Describe crisis intervention training models (CIT) and other programs instituted to effectuate reform
Describe given examples of particular interventions instituted in a number of cities that show promise in reaching effective solutions, according to the research and studies published
Presented By
Heather Ellis Cucolo, JD
Heather Ellis Cucolo is a Distinguished Adjunct professor of law and the facilitator of the joint JD/MA program with John Jay College of Criminal Justice, at New York Law School (NYLS). She is also an adjunct professor in the JM Program at Emory University School of Law, and a Fellowship faculty mem...
Presented By
Michael Perlin, JD
Michael L. Perlin is Professor of Law Emeritus at New York Law School (NYLS), founding director of NYLS’s Online Mental Disability Law Program, and founding director of NYLS’s International Mental Disability Law Reform Project in its Justice Action Center. He is also the co-founder of Mental Disabil...
Curriculum
1. Program Introduction
2. Navigating Police Reform: Historical Ills, Current Practices, and Future Directions
3. Therapeutic Jurisprudence and Final Reflections
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Program Partner
Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates (MDLPA)
We are proud to partner with Mental Disability Law and Policy Associates, LLC for this training. MDLPA is a boutique educational training company that offers specialized mental disability law consulting, the creation or enhancement of distance learning programs, in-house or online courses, and day or weekend training seminars to reputable organizations, educational institutions, professional groups, and advocacy groups focused on providing advanced knowledge and skills to persons working with marginalized populations.
CE Sponsorship Information
Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) is approved by the Canadian Psychological Association to offer continuing education for psychologists. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT), SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0356 and the New York State Education Department’s State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0073. Palo Alto University, Continuing and Professional Studies (CONCEPT) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6811. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. CONCEPT Professional Training, #1480, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. CONCEPT Professional Training maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 11/22/23-11/22/26. Social workers completing this course receive (clinical or social work ethics) continuing education credits.