Protecting and Serving: Enhancing Law Enforcement Response to Children Exposed to Violence

A training that helps law enforcement better recognize and respond to signs of traumatic stress reactions in children.

Target Audience: Law enforcement personnel

Overall Objective: To identify children exposed to violence you encounter while on the job, Interact effectively with children of all ages who have been exposed to violence using both developmentally-appropriate and trauma-informed approaches, and Enhance your sense of professional effectiveness (do your job better with more tools, feel more satisfaction, and be more effective as a police officer).

Project Funding Provided By: The Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice

Includes: A training series that helps provide law enforcement officers to better understand and recognize the acute signs of traumatic distress often associated with events which require police intervention and apply law enforcement strategies that simultaneously achieve law enforcement goals and provide a platform for children and families to heal and recover.

Training certified by the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training (IADLEST) National Certification Program (NCP).