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Mental Health Training Shapes Kansas Police Tactics
Kansas law enforcement is expanding crisis intervention training to better handle encounters with mentally ill or developmentally disabled individuals, with urban departments like Topeka and Kansas City adopting CIT while rural areas rely on mental health first aid and telemedicine. Resource gaps and Osawatomie State Hospital delays complicate efforts, leaving officers to triage crises amid shrinking services and ongoing hospital challenges.
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Kansas
Osawatomie State Hospital
Borchers
Sedgwick County
Jeff Easter
Wichita
CIT
Lane Mangels
Salina
Toms
Johnson County Mental Health
Best
National Alliance On Mental Illness
CIT International
Topeka
Bill Cochran
Ed Klumpp
Klumpp
Cochran
John Bryant
Kansas City
Missouri
Bryant
High Plains
Colby
Walt Hill
Australia
United States
Mental Health First Aid USA
National Council For Behavioral Health
Missouri Department of Mental Health
University of Kansas
Hill
Steven Leifman
Miami
Florida Supreme Court
Leisman
Psychiatric Hospital
Osawatomie
Lenexa