Salt Lake City Police Department

• Small city and rural community collaboration and coordination across multiple jurisdictions
• Social workers have been embedded in the police department since 2016. Currently, the focus of the program is a co-response model. 
• Social workers are the liaisons between frontline police work and the community, which includes service providers and individuals/families that are in crisis.  
• Employs a Community Connection Team, which consists of case managers and therapists partnered with Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) detectives and a sergeant. Currently, the team is comprised of 1 director, 3 social work managers, 1 police sergeant, 6 Masters level clinicians, 9 case managers, 4 CIT detectives, and 1 office facilitator.  The team functions as a co-responder unit with a social worker responding to 911 calls alongside a CIT detective or patrol officer. The co-responder team addresses “social issue calls,” which may look like: an unwanted person; a person with suicidal ideas; and concerns related to mental health, homelessness, and substance use disorders. The team also works with CIT Metro to conduct CIT trainings for multiple police departments in Salt Lake Valley. 
• The CIT multi-county collaboration: 
  • Provides 5 40-hour CIT Academies for patrol and corrections 
  • Operates a dedicated CIT Investigative Unit with a detective to follow up on mental health calls for service
• Police Officer Standards and Training:
  • 2–hour Autism class 
  • Yearly mental health/de-escalation training for the police department
  • 16 hours of training for Police Academy trainees  

Website: Salt Lake City Police Department Community Connection Center