Police Pocket Guide | Parent Professional Advocacy League

Tools to help police and families partner together when youth are in crisis.

This guide contains the following information:

What Families Need Police to Know
Is there a Way to Understand Behaviors?
Understanding the Family Experience
What Helps Improve Safety for Youth
Suicide Prevention
Police Pocket Guide Resources for Families/ First Responders

PPAL (Parent/Professional Advocacy League) created this guide with assistance from Wayside Youth and Family Support Network in 2001. A grant from the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health paid for development and printing. The 2008 revision and printing were funded by grants from the Boston Foundation and the Massachusetts Behavioral Health Partnership. The 2020 version was funded by the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health.