With funding support from the U.S. Department of Justice’s Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA), the National Policing Institute (NPI) is working with the Council of State Governments (CSG) Justice Center, to further projects that promote and expand mental health and law enforcement partnerships. This work supports law enforcement agencies around the country in planning and implementing effective public-safety responses to people who have mental illnesses. NPI takes a number of roles in these collaborations:

• NPI facilitates peer-to-peer learning through a diverse cross-section of model strategies and examples of successful collaborations between law enforcement and mental health agencies that promotes promising practices and sustainability plans.
• NPI supports communities of practice to bring together practitioners, academics and others around the concept of law enforcement and mental health collaborations.
• NPI is also working with the CSG Justice Center on developing technical assistance plans focused on specific topic areas such as embedding clinicians, mental health crisis center coordination, diversion strategies, specialized training, and data collection and analysis.