Mental Health First Aid USA is an 8-hour course that teaches a 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources, and knowledge to help an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional, peer, and self-help care. Participants learn the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of the importance of early … Continue reading "Mental Health First Aid For Public Safety"

Instructor: Jennifer Wadsworth Senior Instructor Jennifer Wadsworth began her career in 1991 as a Municipal Police Officer in Massachusetts. In 1996 became the first female instructor-trainer for the Massachusetts Criminal Justice Training Council. Jennifer is a Senior Adjunct Instructor for Defense Technologies and holds instructor ratings in MDTS, MEB, PR-24, Use of Force, and OC. … Continue reading "Tactical Defense & De-Escalation for Females in Law Enforcement"

Mental Health First Aid USA is an 8-hour course that teaches a 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources, and knowledge to help an individual in crisis connect with appropriate professional, peer, and self-help care. Participants learn the unique risk factors and warning signs of mental health problems, builds understanding of the importance of early … Continue reading "Mental Health First Aid For Public Safety"

Presented by: Pamela Goines, MEd., and Thomas Goines, owners, SafeEncounters® Training Pamela & Thomas are both proud parents of a son with Autism. Pamela is an advocate, special educator, college administrator, author, and most importantly, a fellow citizen wanting to work with law enforcement to ensure SafeEncounters® for all. They are associates of the New … Continue reading "SafeEncounters Autism Awareness for Law Enforcement"

HOSTED BY: Middletown Police Department ADDRESS: Middletown Police Department 1 Donham Plaza, Middletown, Ohio 45042 TIME: 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. ARIDE is a 16-hour course that is designed to train law enforcement officers to observe, identify, and articulate the signs of impairment related to drugs and alcohol with the goal to reduce impaired-driving incidents … Continue reading "Advanced Roadside Impaired Driving Enforcement (ARIDE)"

This 40-hour Traffic Collision Investigation course will instruct officers on topics including measuring, photographing, recording evidence at crash scenes, and diagramming the scene to scale. Upon completion, officers will be able to analyze a collision and determine what happened before, during, and after the collision. Officers will be instructed on advanced techniques for application of … Continue reading "Traffic Crash Investigation Level 1"

Course Description: Great Oaks Public Safety Services has gathered together a highly qualified team of experts to deliver this two-day course on communication skills essential for all law enforcement to successfully navigate through crisis encounters on the street. The term de-escalation is used throughout law enforcement to describe what we already do well — talk … Continue reading "Law Enforcement Tactical Communications/De-Escalation"