Training Delivery - Webinar

    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 - Mental Health Concepts and Trafficking: Fundamentals for Justice Professionals to Understand

    This webinar looks at the family’s and the victim’s perspective on the experience of trafficking. The effect of trauma on both family and victim, as well as the concept of ambiguous loss while the victim’s fate is unknown, provide the core of the presentation, in addition to a discussion of the specific challenges to the reunification and reintegration of the victim back into the family.

    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.

    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.

    Webinar - Advanced Investigative Techniques for Cold Case Sexual Assaults

    The Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) Training and Technical Assistance team will host a webinar titled “Advanced Investigative Techniques for Cold Case Sexual Assaults” on Thursday, August 15, 2019 from 2:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m. ET. The event will open at 1:45 p.m. ET.

    Webinar - Policing Vulnerable Populations: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Programs

    This session “drills down” into programs operated by the Tucson, Arizona Police Department’s Mental Health Support Team, including Drug Deflection, Co-responder, Peer Navigator, Crisis Intervention Training, and more. Participants will leave this session with a roadmap for starting any of all of these programs in their home jurisdiction. A historical perspective will educate attendees in the methods used to start these programs in Tucson, Arizona.

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    Webinar - Sustainable Crime Gun Intelligence Strategies Require Policy-driven Tactics

    Whether implementing a regional or agencywide preventive crime gun strategy, the establishment of formal policies is a critical factor that must be addressed. These policies can be wide-ranging in scope, affecting entire local, regional, or national populations, and they can be narrow in scope, affecting only a single organization. For example, at least three states now have laws mandating that all police agencies in the state utilize the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) when investigating firearm-related crimes.

    Webinar - Reducing Traffic Fatalities in Urban and Rural Areas: Notes from NIJ’s LEADS Program

    Sergeant James Williams with the Metropolitan Nashville, Tennessee Police Department will discuss how his agency used data to develop targeted traffic intervention strategies to reduce car crashes and their associated harms in a metropolitan area, implementing a High Visibility Enforcement campaign. Captain Ken Clary, Iowa State Patrol, will outline an evidence-based, proactive strategy being tested in a rural area to deter and prevent fatal crashes.

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