COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn to identify, understand & work with the “Blue Wall of Silence” in the law enforcement community. Designed to provide insight & understanding of the different types of stress in the law enforcement culture from a systems perspectives emphasis, and will provide practical “back pocket skills” in providing crisis intervention services to law enforcement organizations & individual personnel in crisis. The Law Enforcement Perspectives course is intended for law enforcement officers, their families, mental health professionals, chaplains, & organizations that interact within the law enforcement community. It is an excellent course for CISM teams & team members who would want to enhance their understanding of the differences in the law enforcement culture as compared to other first responder cultures.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
- Community perceptions of the law enforcement profession
- Differentiated Model of oppression in capitalistic systems
- System dysfunctions in the law enforcement culture
- Special considerations when providing CMB group interventions
- Stress areas of a law enforcement officer in crisis
- Specific stress areas to law enforcement officer culture
- Healthy coping mechanisms & resiliency protective factors
- Interventions to a suicide of a law enforcement officer or a LODD
- Addictions & CISM response
- Psychological & emotional perceptions following an officer involved shooting
Dates: TBA
Time: 8:30am-5:00pm
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $220.00
Please fully complete the registration application to give us a better idea of who we are serving. Your information will be held in strict confidence.
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE