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  • Contains 63 Component(s)

    The 2023 Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium is for public safety professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Virtual registration for the 2023 OSW Symposium will give you access to three live-streamed general sessions (March 3-5, 2023) and dozens of pre-recorded workshops only available through IACPlearn. All workshops listed in the educational program will be available virtually, unless indicated otherwise, and will be accessible on-demand to view at your leisure. Virtual attendees will learn about building resilience, financial wellness, injury prevention, peer support programs, physical fitness, proper nutrition, sleep deprivation, stress, mindfulness, suicide prevention, and more.

    The 2023 Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium is for public safety professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Virtual registration for the 2023 OSW Symposium will give you access to three live-streamed general sessions (March 3-5, 2023) and dozens of pre-recorded workshops only available through IACPlearn. All workshops listed in the educational program will be available virtually, unless indicated otherwise, and will be accessible on-demand to view at your leisure. Virtual attendees will learn about building resilience, financial wellness, injury prevention, peer support programs, physical fitness, proper nutrition, sleep deprivation, stress, mindfulness, suicide prevention, and more. 

    If you encounter any issues, please contact us at: 

    learn@theiacp.org

    800-THE-IACP

  • Contains 68 Component(s)

    This project seeks to establish or enhance victim services programs in criminal justice agencies in order to couple law enforcement-based services with community-based program partnerships to serve the broader needs and rights of all crime victims.

    Target Audience: Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services Personnel, Victim Services Supervisors, and Sworn Leadership

    Overall Objective: This project seeks to establish or enhance victim services programs in criminal justice agencies in order to couple law enforcement-based services with community-based program partnerships to serve the broader needs and rights of all crime victims.

    Project Funding Provided by: The Office for Victims of Crime

    Includes: A series of webinars discussing foundational elements of law enforcement-based victim services program development. Sample topics include but are not limited to: victims’ rights, program development, documentation standards, developing partnerships, and program sustainability.

    Please direct any specific questions or comments to LEVproject@theiacp.org

    For more information on Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services click here.

    Emily Burton-Blank

    Project Manager

    IACP



    Heather Dooley

    Project Manager

    IACP

    McKallen Leonard

    Project Manager

    IACP

    Bonnie Mills

    Project Coordinator

    IACP

    Morgana Yellen

    Project Associate

    IACP

  • Contains 3 Component(s)

    The IACP is proud to serve as the training and technical assistance provider for the Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services and Technical Assistance Program (LEV Program). Sponsored by the Office for Victims of Crime, this project seeks to establish or enhance victim services programs in criminal justice agencies in order to couple law enforcement-based services with community-based program partnerships to serve the broader needs and rights of all crime victims.

    Target Audience: Law enforcement leaders, law enforcement-based victim services supervisors, law enforcement-based victim services personnel

    Project Funing Provided By: Office for Victims of Crime (OVC)

    Includes: A 3-part video series intended to help agency leaders, personnel, partners, and stakeholders learn more about the purpose and benefits of incorporating law enforcement-based victim services into overall agency victim response.

    Please direct any specific questions or comments to LEVproject@theiacp.org

    For more information on Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services click here.

    Law Enforcement-Based Victim Services (LEV) Webinar Series

  • Contains 2 Component(s)

    Learn how various components of GM’s defense-in-depth strategy can help identify if fraudulent claims may have occurred.

    Get an update on vehicle theft trends such as relay attacks and OBD tools, immobilizers, alarm systems, and other theft deterrence features, forensic data resident in GM products, GM’s innovations in VIN labelling and component marking, reading key fobs, cybersecurity, OnStar as an investigator’s ally, new GM products such as electric and autonomous vehicles - and much more. Learn how various components of GM’s defense in-depth strategy can help identify if fraudulent claims may have occurred. Find out how to contact GM under various vehicle crime and fraud scenarios.

    George Baker

    Global Vehicle Security Lead

    General Motors Global Technical Center

    George Baker serves as GM’s primary interface to the international vehicle crime investigation community. He leads GM’s Global Vehicle Security Team, working with GM’s technical experts to ensure GM understands and counters current and emerging vehicle crime methods to provide optimal vehicle security to GM product owners. George has held a variety of positions at General Motors since 1995, including locomotive program manager in Mexico and Russia, sales/marketing/aftersales director in Moscow, director of GM Military Trucks, and OnStar’s primary liaison to law enforcement. He holds an engineering degree from West Point and a master’s degree in Russian area studies from Harvard University. George is a retired US Army officer following his service on tanks and in the Army’s military liaison program.

  • Contains 10 Component(s)

    ​Place-Based Policing for Small and Rural Agencies, an eLearning course utilizing case studies and interactive components, provides participants with the opportunity to explore concepts in various, applicable contexts. This course provides all law enforcement professionals, from leadership to frontline officers, with place-based policing practices that reduce crime and are specifically tailored to small and rural agencies.

    Place-Based Policing for Small and Rural Agencies identifies evidence-based and emerging practices for place-based crime reduction strategies and translates them into actional approaches tailored to small and rural agencies. This eLearning course allows participants to complete the course at their own pace and incorporates case studies and interactive components for the application of course material in each module. Participants will gain knowledge on evidence-based policing practices, place-based policing strategies, the use of data and technology to implement place-based policing strategies, and how to utilize community-police engagement to implement place-based policing strategies. 

    Overall Objective: Identify a place-based crime problem, select a “best fit” evidence-based approach utilizing available resources, and implement the strategy to address specific crime problem(s) to increase overall public safety.

    Target Audience: Public safety professionals affiliated with small and rural police agencies.

    Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free, eLearning course was developed by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) and supported by cooperative agreement 2019CKWXK010 by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS). 

    Course Length: 3.0 hours including the pre- and post-assessments.

  • Contains 29 Component(s), Includes Credits

    A training series geared towards addressing vicarious trauma response across both the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative (VTRI) project sites and any agency or organization interested in addressing vicarious trauma.

    A monthly training series geared towards addressing vicarious trauma response across VTRI Community Implementation Site partners.

    Target Audience: Community Implementation Sites

    Overall Objective: A training series hosted by the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative for all partner organizations across the 12 Community Implementation Sites focusing on mitigating the negative effects of work-related trauma exposure and building partnerships and collaborations to address vicarious trauma response on an organizational level.

    Project Funding Provided By: The Office for Victims of Crime, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

    Includes: Monthly webinars hosted by the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative 

    Meg Garvin

    Executive Director & Clinical Professor of Law, MA, JD

    National Crime Victim Law Institute

    Meg Garvin is the Executive Director of the National Crime Victim Law Institute (NCVLI) and a Clinical Professor of Law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Ms. Garvin is recognized as a leading expert on victims’ rights. She has testified before Congress, state legislatures and the Judicial Proceedings Panel on Sexual Assault in the Military. In her expert capacity she has served on the Defense Advisory Committee on Investigation, Prosecution and Defense of Sexual Assault in the Armed Forces, the Victims Advisory Group of the United States Sentencing Commission, and the Victim Services Subcommittee, of the Response Systems to Adult Sexual Assault Crime Panel of the United States Department of Defense, as co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Criminal Justice Section Victims Committee, co-chair of the Oregon Attorney General’s Crime Victims’ Rights Task Force and as a member of the Legislative & Public Policy Committee of the Oregon Attorney General’s Sexual Assault Task Force.  She has received numerous awards in recognition of her work, including in 2015 the John W. Gillis Leadership Award from National Parents of Murdered Children; in 2020, the American Bar Association Criminal Justice Section’s Frank Carrington Crime Victim Attorney Award, and in 2021, the Hardy Myers Victim Advocacy Award from the Oregon Crime Victims Law Center. Prior to joining NCVLI, Ms. Garvin practiced law in Minneapolis, Minnesota and clerked for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. Pronouns: she/her/hers. 

    Chris Newlin

    Executive Director, MS LPC

    National Children's Advocacy Center

    Chris Newlin is the executive director of the National Children’s Advocacy Center (NCAC) in Huntsville, AL, where he is responsible for providing leadership and management of the agency, as well as participating in national and international training and leadership activities regarding the protection of children.  The NCAC was the first Children’s Advocacy Center (CAC) in the world and provides child abuse prevention and intervention services in Huntsville/Madison County; and also houses the NCAC Training Center, the Southern Regional Children’s Advocacy Center, the NCAC Virtual Training Center, and the Child Abuse Library Online (CALiO).  The NCAC is a past multi-year winner of the Better Business Bureau’s Torch Award for Workplace Ethics; 2012 Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce Non-Profit of the Year; 2016 Federal Bureau of Investigation Director’s Community Leadership Award recipient; (multi-year finalist), winner in 2017 and 2019 of the Huntsville/Madison County Chamber of Commerce Best Places to Work; and a Private Sector Member of the Virtual Global Taskforce.  Chris has more than 24 years of experience working in CACs as a forensic interviewervictim advocateclinical director, and executive director. He has provided training in more than 30 countries at numerous international conferences and continues to provide technical assistance on a regular basis to professionals working to develop multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and CACs throughout the world. Chris received his master’s degree in school psychology from the University of Central Arkansas, is a licensed professional counselor, and has completed coursework at the Harvard University Business School Executive Education Program.

    Paula Gomez Stordy

    Senior Director of National Training and Technical Assistance

    Esperanza United

    Paula Gomez Stordy has more than 25 years of experience working in the field of gender-based violence, of which 17 years were in non-profit management. She is the Senior Director of National Training and Technical Assistance for Esperanza United: National Latin@ Network for Healthy Families and Communities, a national resource center with a focus on providing training, research, and policy advocacy to prevent and end domestic violence and sexual assault. Ms. Gomez Stordy directs national training and technical assistance overseeing federal grants, programming, and supervision of staff to enhance culturally responsive approaches and capacity to both mainstream and culturally specific organizations across the country.

    Leo Martinez

    Project Manager

    Esperanza United

    Leo Martinez is a Project Manager with Esperanza United, formerly Casa de Esperanza - National Latin@ Network. With Esperanza United he currently works providing Language Access and Cultural Responsiveness training as part of the national resource center on domestic violence in the Latino community; he is a Training and Technical Assistance lead with the Vicarious Trauma Response Initiative, a national initiative funded by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC) and led by the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP); he informs the Intimate Partner Homicide project focused on Latino victims and funded by the Office on Violence against Women (OVW). He also collaborates on the Enhancing Access Peer to Peer project focused on language access, funded also by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC). 

  • Contains 26 Product(s)

    Improving officer safety and wellness enhances the health and effectiveness of officers, as well as the safety of the community.

    If you missed the IACP 2022 Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium, it's not too late! Included in this package are some of the most popular workshops, covering topics from resilience to financial wellness. 

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    In this workshop, representatives from the IACP's Mass Violence Advisory Initiative discuss the mass violence incidents that affected their agencies and communities and the unanticipated challenges they faced, both in the immediate aftermath of the event and in the following months.

    Mass violence incidents present unique challenges to law enforcement leaders facing one of these events for the first time. Regardless of how much planning and preparation agencies do ahead of time, the reality is far different. In this workshop, representatives from the IACP's Mass Violence Advisory Initiative discuss the mass violence incidents that affected their agencies and communities and the unanticipated challenges they faced, both in the immediate aftermath of the event, and in the following months. These experts share lessons learned and discuss specific ways their ability to lead in the aftermath of one of these incidents would have been enhanced if they had the guidance of someone who had been through a similar experience. As our experts repeatedly tell us about these incidents, "We didn't know what we didn't know." Also during this workshop, we will introduce the concept of the Mass Violence Peer-to-Peer Advisory Team and share its mission, purpose, and unique value, including how this no-cost service addresses agency, victim, community, and survivors? mental wellbeing as they work to heal following a traumatic mass violence event.

    • Describe the unique factors and conditions that make incidents of mass violence a challenge for law enforcement leaders.
    • Discuss the needs communities have as they strive to heal following an incident of mass violence.
    • Discuss the Mass Violent Peer-to-Peer Advisory Team, its components, and its value to law enforcement and communities following an incident of mass violence.

  • Contains 1 Component(s)

    The "Exploring Locative Technology: What You Need to Know to Address Wandering" is a webinar developed to inform individuals and organizations dedicated to addressing wandering in individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities. This webinar will feature law enforcement, family members, and disability advocates who will speak from personal and professional experience about strategies to address wandering by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, as well as the use of locative technology as a last resort.

    During this 60-minute webinar and 30-minute Q&A session, participants will hear from law enforcement, family members, and disability advocates who speak from personal and professional experience about strategies to address wandering by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities, as well as the use of locative technology as a last resort.

    After this webinar, participants will be able to:
    • Describe multiple strategies to prevent wandering and locate individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities who have wandered;
    • Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using locative or tracking technology to 1) prevent wandering, and 2) locate individuals who have wandered due to their intellectual or developmental disability; and
    • Identify options, including forms of locative technology, for successfully addressing incidents of wandering by individuals with intellectual or developmental disabilities.

    Speakers:
    • Officer Laurie Reyes: Coordinator and Creator of the Autism, IDD, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Outreach Unit of the Montgomery County, MD Police Department
    • Sergeant Stefan Bjes (ret.): Sergeant with the Addison, IL Police Department and Parent of two children on the autism spectrum
    • Tauna Szymanski: Founder of CommunicationFIRST, Disabilities Advocate and Parent
    • Russell Lehmann: Award-winning and internationally recognized motivational speaker with lived experience and poet contextualizing autism, mental health, and the overall human condition

    This project is supported by Grant No. 2019-NT-BX-K002 awarded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance. The Bureau of Justice Assistance is a component of the Department of Justice's Office of Justice Programs, which also includes the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, the Office for Victims of Crime, and the SMART Office. Points of view or opinions in this document are those of the author and do not necessarily represent the official position or policies of the U.S. Department of Justice.

    Jessica Oppenheim

    Consultant

    The Arc of the United States National Center on Criminal Justice & Disability

    Jessica Oppenheim, Esq. retired as the Director of the Criminal Justice Advocacy Program of The Arc of NJ, in June 2021, a New Jersey statewide program providing advocacy for people with IDD involved in the criminal justice system. Prior to joining The Arc of New Jersey 2010, she was an Assistant Prosecutor in the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and a Deputy Attorney General in the New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice from 1985 – 2010, including overseeing the County Prosecutor’s Offices and 600 law enforcement agencies on behalf of the Attorney General. She prosecuted Megan’s Law and domestic violence cases and provided policies and protocols for law enforcement agencies and prosecutors throughout the State on domestic violence, sexual assault and child abuse, Megan’s Law, and dealing with diverse populations. She is board vice president for Women Aware, Middlesex County’s domestic violence agency, and board president for Legal Reform for Intellectually and Developmentally Disabled people (LRIDD). She has provided training for law enforcement, attorneys, courts, and support providers for people with developmental disabilities and the criminal justice system.

    Officer Laurie Reyes

    Coordinator and Creator of the Autism, IDD, Alzheimer's, and Dementia Outreach Unit

    Montgomery County, MD Police Department

    Officer Laurie Reyes has been a Montgomery County Police officer for 24 years. In 2005, she created and implemented what is now called the Montgomery County Police Autism and Intellectual/Developmental Disabilities (IDD), Alzheimer's, Dementia Outreach Program and has served in this program since that time. Initially, Officer Reyes started the program to address the increase in calls for service involving individuals with Autism and IDD and Alzheimer's who were the focus of a report for a “missing at risk” person. The program has expanded to provide resources way beyond wandering prevention and awareness to include other calls and concerns from the mundane to the very serious.  

    Officer Reyes has received recognition from the White House as a “White House, Champion of Change for Youth and Law Enforcement”. In 2018 she was recognized by the Department of Justice and received the Attorney General’s Award for “Distinguished Service in Policing”. She also received a Governor’s Citation for the creation and continued coordination of the Montgomery County Police Autism/IDD, Alzheimer’s and Dementia Outreach Program. The program is recognized as a national model by such organizations as The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, Autism Speaks, and Pathfinders for Autism.

    Stefan Bjes

    Sergeant Ret.

    Addison, IL Police Department

    Sergeant Stefan Bjes M.S. is currently the Assistant Director of Campus Safety for North Central College (Naperville, IL) and is a retired patrol sergeant and has served with the Addison, IL Police Department. Stefan has a bachelor’s degree from Valparaiso University in Psychology and Sociology and a master’s degree from Lewis University. He is also a former board member of the DuPage County Juvenile Officer Association. Stefan was named the 2019 Juvenile Officer of the Year by the Illinois Juvenile Officer Association for his work with children with disabilities. In 2021, Stefan was awarded the Missing Children’s Law Enforcement Award by the United States Department of Justice for establishing programs to assist with the prevention and search for missing children with disabilities. Stefan is an instructor for Northeast Multi-Regional Training (NEMRT), Tri-River Police Training Region, and is also an approved instructor regarding autism and intellectual/developmental disabilities for the basic CIT Course with the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.    

    Stefan has written articles for the International Law Enforcement Educators & Trainers Association (ILEETA) Journal, Campus Safety Magazine, and Calibre Press regarding law enforcement interactions with individuals with autism. Stefan is an adjunct faculty member at Waubonsee Community College and the Suburban Law Enforcement Academy at the College of DuPage. He is also the owner of Blue Line Spectrum Safety LLC, which specializes in first responder training regarding autism and developmental disabilities.    

    As a father of two sons with autism, Stefan has extensive experience, through his personal and professional life, in interacting with individuals with autism spectrum disorders.

    Tauna Szymanski

    Founder of CommunicationFIRST, Disabilities Advocate, and Parent

    CommunicationFIRST

    Tauna Szymanski, JD/MPA, is the Executive Director and Legal Director of CommunicationFIRST, the only organization dedicated to representing the rights and interests of the estimated 5 million children and adults in the United States who cannot rely on speech alone to be heard and understood. Before co-founding CommunicationFIRST in 2019, she spent 20 years working in climate change law and policy, mostly at the law firm of Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP, in their Washington, DC, and London offices. Ms. Szymanski is neurodivergent and multiply disabled and parents a child who relies on augmentative and alternative communication (AAC). She received her BA in international relations and environmental studies from Carleton College, her JD from Stanford Law School, and her MPA/MA in economic policy and urban planning from Princeton University's School of Public International Affairs. She grew up mostly outside the United States as the child of US diplomats.

    Russell Lehmann

    Motivational Speaker with Lived Experience and Poet with Lived Experience

    Russell Lehmann is an award-winning and internationally recognized motivational speaker and poet contextualizing autism, mental health, disabilities, and the overall human condition. A graduate of MIT’s “Leadership in the Digital Age” course, Russell sits on the national Board of Directors for The Arc and is a council member for the Autism Society of America.   

    Russell showed signs of autism as a newborn, however, he was not formally diagnosed until the age of 12 after suffering through 5 weeks in a lockdown psychiatric facility.   

    Russell recently returned from Helsinki after he was invited to the Finnish Parliament to discuss government supports that are needed in Finland for individuals on the spectrum. 

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    This presentation discusses the laws surrounding peer support in order to guide teams in their creation, implementation, and maintenance of their own programs.

    This presentation discusses the laws surrounding peer support in order to guide teams in their creation, implementation, and maintenance of their own programs. The presenter uses the laws of the California government code as a model to guide team policies, particularly for those in states that do not currently have peer support legislation. The goal is to have a peer support team that will be able to maintain confidentiality, integrity, and protection from liability or potential litigation.

    • Identify the best practices to implement their team.
    • Define appropriate confidentiality requirements and exceptions.
    • Conduct training that will assist in creating liability protection for their agency, team, and individual supporters.