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A webinar, sponsored by FirstNET, Built with AT&T, that addresses strategies for maintaining emotional wellness during COVID-19 and beyond. While the COVID-19 pandemic is challenging for everyone, it can present unique challenges for police officers and their families. With much of the world enforcing shelter in place mandates to slow the spread of COVID-19, law enforcement personnel represent one of the essential professions who cannot stay home and law enforcement families are left facing concerns about their loved ones contracting COVID-19 while on duty. Learn how to increase emotional intelligence, optimism, and gratitude.
Target Audience: Law enforcement professionals; law enforcement family members
Overall Objectives:
· Benefits of increasing emotional intelligence, empathy, optimism, and gratitude
· Strategies to increase emotional intelligence, empathy, optimism, and gratitude
· Daily activity to enhance gratitude and energy
Includes: A webinar featuring subject experts discussing strategies for maintaining emotional wellness during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.
Sponsored By:
Steven R. Casstevens (Moderator)
Chief, Buffalo Grove, Illinois, Police Department
Steven Casstevens is the Chief of Police with the Buffalo Grove, IL Police Department. He began his law enforcement career in the Military Police with the U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne Division in 1976. In 1979 he left the Army and worked for the Mendota, IL Police and Peru, IL Police, prior to being hired in Hoffman Estates in 1981.
He retired in 2011 as an Assistant Chief with the Hoffman Estates, IL, Police Department, where he served for nearly 30 years. He then served as Chief of Police with the Cary, IL Police Department for 2 ½ years prior to being hired in Buffalo Grove. Casstevens has served as a member of the IACP Executive Committee, as the President of the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police, as the IACP SACOP representative for Illinois, and as a member of the IACP Highway Safety Committee. He has authored numerous articles for Police Chief Magazine, Command Magazine and Law and Order. He served as an adjunct instructor for Northwestern University Center for Public Safety for the School of Police Staff & Command.
Casstevens is a graduate of the 51st class of Northwestern University’s School of Police Staff & Command (1991), the Executive Management Program and a member of the 216th session of the FBI National Academy (2004). He received his bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice Management from Judson University, and is a Certified Police Chief through the Illinois Association of Chiefs of Police.
Nicole LeFort
Project Manager, IACP
Nicole LeFort is a Project Manager with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Her portfolio includes oversight of IACPlearn, IACP's leadership development programs, and IACP's training and resources related to planning, designing, and constructing police facilities. Ms. LeFort has a Master of Arts degree in Sociology and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice.
Juliana Davis
Project Manager, IACP
Juliana Davis is a Project Manager with the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) where she currently oversees several Officer Safety and Wellness projects and initiatives, including the National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide and Innovative Approaches for Strengthening Officer Wellness. Ms. Davis previously managed the VALOR Law Enforcement Resilience Training Program and served as the Guest Editor for Police Chief Magazine's issue(s) on Officer Safety and Wellness.