MCC Daily Tribune

Criminal Justice Faculty Address BLM and Mental Health in Policing within Curriculum

We are proud to announce that, under the leadership of Chair Adrian Smalls and the participation of the CRJ faculty, we have added a new CLO to our Criminal Justice A.S. program to directly address issues related to the Black Lives Matter movement.  The CLO states:  “Evaluate how community perception of the police and justice system shapes relations between cultural groups within the community through analysis of historical police and citizen involvement.”

Chair Smalls is also seeking ways to embed responding to mental health crises into our CRJ programs. In addition, the Human Services faculty has submitted a micro-credential in Trauma-Informed Practices to the curriculum process, and it can be adapted to numerous programs to address these issues in a variety of settings, including policing. 

Please join me in congratulating the CRJ and HUM faculty in this extremely important work to better train our law enforcement students to work safely with our entire community.

Medea Rambish
Academic Foundations
05/10/2023