Funded Projects

Enhancing Crisis Intervention Training with Practitioners

          2025 - 2027

          Funded by the Virginia CIT Coalition

          Grant: $107,223

         Principle Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

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Coalition to Enhance the Capacity of Policing Mental Health Problems in Virginia.

           2022 - 2026

           Funded by Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) 

           Grant: $1,483,000

          Principle Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

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Final Technical Report:

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Yasemin Irvin-Erickson, Kristen Fite, and Hannah De Wolf. “Coalition to Enhance the Capacity of Policing Mental Health Problems in Virginia.” Final Report to Bureau of Justice Assistance.

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Publications: 

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Irvin-Erickson, Yasemin, Sue-Ming Yang, Kristen Fite, Clay Drummond, Yi-Fang Lu, and Justin Ramsdell. (2026). CIT Training’s Effects on Police Officers’ Knowledge, Attitudes, Skills, and Well-being: Officer, Trainer, and Leadership Perspectives. Journal of Criminal Justice, 102: 102597. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2026.102597.

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Manuscripts in Progress: 

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Lu, Yi-Fang and Sue-Ming Yang. Work-related Critical Incident Exposure in a Suburban-rural Police Department. 

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Lu, Yi-Fang, Sue-Ming Yang, Ali Weinstein, Kristen Fite, and Yasemin Irvin-Erickson. An Exploratory Study of Officers’ Stress State, Resilience, and Retention Intention.

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Partners in Crisis: Improving Police Response to Individuals in Moments of Crisis by Providing Service Alternatives

         2021 - 2023

         Funded by National Institute of Justice (NIJ) 

         Grant: $385,434

         Principle Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

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Final Technical Report:

 

Yang, Sue-Ming, Yi-Fang Lu, and I-Ching Jen. (2024). “Partners in Crisis: Improving Police Response to Individuals in Moments of Crisis by Providing Service Alternatives” Final Report. National Institute of Justice. 

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Publications: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Rylan Simpson, I-Ching Jen, Beidi Dong, and Yi-Fang Lu. (2026). Mental Health and Police Calls for Service: A Comparison of Assessments by Police Dispatchers, Police Officers, and Mental Health Clinicians. American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://10.1007/s12103-026-09929-9

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Lu, Yi-Fang, Sue-Ming Yang, and I-Ching Jen. (2026). Examining the longitudinal concentration patterns of mental health problems at place. American Journal of Criminal Justice. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12103-026-09900-8

 

Yang, Sue-Ming and Yi-Fang Lu. (2024). Evaluating the Effects of Co-response Teams in Reducing Subsequent Hospitalization: A Place-based Randomized Controlled Trial. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, Vol 18, pa 1-10. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paad080

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Improving Police Response to Mental Health Crisis in a Rural Area

           2015 - 2019

           Funded by Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) 

          Grant: $627,482 

          Principle Investigator: Sue-Ming Yang

          Co-Principle Investigator: Charlotte Gill

            

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Final Technical Report: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Charlotte Gill, L. Caitlin Kanewske, Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, Paige Thompson, Howard Hall, and James Chapman. (2020). “Improving Police Response to Mental Health Crisis in a Rural Area.” Final Report. Bureau of Justice Assistance.  

    

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Publications: 

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Yang, Sue-Ming, SangJun Park, Yi-Fang Lu, and Charlotte E. Gill. (2025). Identifying signals of mental health crisis in calls for police service. Journal of Criminal Justice, 97, 102356.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcrimjus.2025.102356.

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Yang, Sue-Ming, Charlotte Gill, Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, and L. Caitlin Kanewske. (2024) A police-clinician co-response team to people with mental illness in a suburban-rural community: a randomized controlled trial: Yang et al. Journal of Experimental Criminology, 21(2), 577-598. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11292-023-09603-8
        Received “Outstanding Experimental Field Trial” (Division of Experimental Criminology, ASC)

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Sue-Ming Yang, Charlotte Gill, L. Cait Kanewske, Yi-Fang Lu, Muneeba Azam, Paige S. Thompson, Howard Hall, James A. Chapman (2021). Improving Police Response to Mental Health Crises in a Rural Community. Translational Criminology, 20, 12-14.

 

Yang, Sue-Ming, Charlotte Gill, L. Caitlin Kanewske, and Paige Thompson. (2018). Analysis of Police Perceptions Regarding Responses to Mental Health- Related Calls in a Rural Area. Victims and Offenders, 13(8), 1132-1152.

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