NAMI Indiana offers several continuing education programs for criminal justice professionals focusing on severe mental illness diagnoses and treatment and tangible skills training in communication, conflict resolution, crisis management, and de-escalation techniques. These trainings are targeted toward people who work in the criminal justice field: law enforcement, corrections, probation, parole, community corrections, judges, prosecutors, public defenders, defense attorneys, social workers and more. 

• Mental Illness 101: An overview of the major illness and a description of signs and symptoms

• NAMI Sharing Your Story with Law Enforcement: A presentation for officers to hear from someone who experienced being in crisis and may have interacted with law enforcement as a result but is now living well with mental illness

• Annual NAMI Indiana Mental Health & Criminal Justice Summit

If you would like more information about these trainings or to schedule a training for your department, agency, organization, or group (minimum of 10 attendees required), please contact info@namiindiana.org.