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De-escalation Training for Correctional Officers

Our colleagues at NAMI Tennessee have developed a training for correctional officers working with mentally ill inmates. The film features national experts and footage shot in Tennessee prisons of mentally ill inmates and their COs. “Code” was developed with the cooperation of the Tennessee Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Tennessee Department of Corrections. It is available for a nominal cost. 

Verbal De-escalation: The Most Important Skill an Officer Can Have, Part 1

Porche, Chris. 2013

Verbal De-escalation: Closing the Deal, Part 2

Porche, Chris. 2013

An Integrated Approach to De-Escalation and Minimizing Use of Force

Police Executive Research Forum. 2012