Law Enforcement

    Webinar - Emergency Medical Services as Partners in Early Diversion Strategies

    Emergency medical services (EMS) can be essential partners in early diversion responses for individuals in crisis. This webinar will focus on the ways that fire departments and EMS can be partners with behavioral health providers and other first responders on early diversion initiatives. Medical clearance will also be explored as part of this webinar.

    Hosted by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration’s Gather, Assess, Integrate, Network, and Stimulate Center for Behavioral Health and Justice Transformation.

    Webinar - Strategies for Collaborative Early Diversion Encounters

    Many early diversion strategies rely upon cooperation between law enforcement officers and mental health professionals to manage crisis encounters. However, on-scene cooperation depends on stakeholder collaboration and clear protocols for how to handle a variety of situations. This webinar will spotlight jurisdictions that have established effective joint responses to mental health crises and provide participants with guidance for their own communities.

    Read a National Institute of Justice Article on Crime Mapping and Analytics

    August 13, 2019

    The National Institute of Justice’s (NIJ) article, “From Crime Mapping to Crime Forecasting: The Evolution of Place-Based Policing,” highlights how advances in analytical capabilities have enabled the criminal justice community to combine crime, geographic, and social data to conduct statistical analyses, identify crime patterns, and forecast where crime is likely to occur.

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    Webinar - Suicide Prevention and Intervention for Public Safety Personnel

    This class is designed to raise suicide awareness and provide practical intervention techniques. In addition to understanding the myths and reasons behind suicide, it is also imperative to assess the lethality of the suicidal person. This class will give members of public safety assessment questions based on the “QPR model” to ask the suicidal person in order to help them de-escalate. Experts agree that 80 to 90 percent of those individuals completing suicide often communicate their suicidal intent to someone.

    Webinar - Trends in Off Duty Work: Challenges & Considerations

    This webinar will address the massive but seldom discussed market consisting of off-duty law enforcement officers providing security services for various clients. Although this type of work has been occurring since the beginning of modern law enforcement, recent factors are influencing this type of work more than ever and may reveal threats to the law enforcement agencies, the officers performing the work, and the market itself.

    Webinar - Your Story, Your Time: Elevating Your Social Media Presence in the Digital Age

    Social media has leveled the playing field for law enforcement agencies to retake control of the narrative of who they are, why they serve, and what they do. But being able to engage with your digital audience goes beyond just posting information about your agency – you must find ways to engage, converse, and connect. But how do you do that, and more importantly, why should you do it? The task of tackling your digital presence cannot just fall to anyone.

    Webinar - Mastering Police Work

    This course provides highlights and key points from Dr. Jeff Fox’s book, The Ultimate Guide to Being a Great Police Officer: A Guide to Professional Policing. This course is for those interested in becoming an officer or who are already an officer, as well as those who train and lead officers. The webinar will discuss key skills needed to be a great officer. The focus will be on the skills needed to be successful during training and throughout one’s career, how to develop decisionmaking skills, and how to effectively communicate.

    Applying the Evidence: Legal and Policy Approaches to Address Opioid Use Disorder in the Criminal Justice and Child Welfare Settings

    The O’Neill Institute is partnering with Business for Impact at the McDonough School of Business to host this event.

    Submit Applications for the Bureau of Justice Assistance’s Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Community Corrections Collaborations to Reduce Violent Crime and Recidivism Program

    August 08, 2019

    The Bureau of the Justice Assistance and The Council of State Governments Justice Center are currently seeking applications for the Innovations in Supervision Initiative: Community Corrections Collaborations to Reduce Violent Crime and Recidivism program.

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    Research to Improve Law Enforcement Response to Persons with Mental Illnesses and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities

    Law enforcement agencies and communities across the country are looking for strategies to improve the behavioral health crisis response for individuals with mental illnesses and intellectual and developmental disabilities (I/DD). This webinar will provide an overview of the evidence on models of mental health crisis response, including Crisis Intervention Teams, mobile crisis, co-responder, and stand-alone mental health response training.

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