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Adolescent Development: Strategies for Youth and Law Enforcement Interactions Webinar

Education & Training
Mental Health Conditions
Youth
Webinar

The purpose of this webinar is to discuss adolescent brain development and how it affects youth behavior. The presenter will discuss youth thinking and behavior, strategies to improve police interaction with youth and legal considerations when interviewing or interrogating youth, as well as some resources to improve your interactions and outcomes when dealing with youth.

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Youth De-Escalation and Conflict Resolution for School Safety Officers Webinar

Community-Police Engagement
Crime & Violence
Education & Training
Youth
Webinar

This webinar is a crisis intervention tool to help the adult learner improve their fundamental skills and techniques for interacting with youth in schools, particularly youth de-escalation and conflict resolution. Helping students learn to resolve conflicts appropriately provides them with leadership tools to build positive relationships between themselves, other students, and school staff. This webinar will also offer some practical intervention strategies to help build credibility when engaging students who are struggling emotionally, to increase the chances of a positive outcome.

The learning objectives are to:

  • Define conflict resolution
  • Describe the differences between positive and negative conflict
  • Explain the causes of conflict
  • Define nonverbal communication
  • Illustrate several conflict resolution strategies
  • Explain how to engage youth in crisis
  • Review the do's and don'ts for school safety personnel
  • List some barriers to defusing conflict

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Engaging Youth in Schools: Tips for Law Enforcement Webinar

Education & Training
Youth
Webinar

Description

The Engaging Youth in Schools: Tips for Law Enforcement webinar will provide tips and helpful recommendations for law enforcement agencies to engage and build trust among youth in schools by focusing discussion around the principles 21st century policing.

These principles include:
1. Building Trust & Legitimacy
2. Policy & Oversight
3. Technology & Social Media
4. Community Policing & Crime Reduction
5. Training & Education
6. Officer Wellness & Safety

This webinar is supported by the National Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges (NCJFCJ) School-Justice Partnership Program and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.

 

Learning Objectives for Participants:

  • Discuss why law enforcement needs to engage youth in schools.
  • Understand the importance of top down leadership in youth engagement.
  • Define youth engagement and how it can be incorporated into their law enforcement agency.
  • Discuss how the principles of 21st century policing relate to effective interactions with youth in schools.
  • Identify resources to engage youth in schools.

The information presented during the webinar will impact law enforcement's response to and support of youth in their schools. Additionally, this webinar will encourage agency's to review practices and programs to consider developing comprehensive youth engagement in school strategies.

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Citation in Lieu of Arrest Final Report

Community-Police Engagement
Crime & Violence
Criminal Justice Reform
Human & Civil Rights
Leadership
Officer Safety & Wellness
/sites/default/files/all/i-j/IACP%20Citation%20Final%20Report%202016.pdf

Although numerous potential benefits of citation in lieu of arrest have been discussed, there has, until now, been little information about law enforcement’s use of and attitudes toward citation as a law enforcement tool. This report provides current, national data on those issues as well as a
summary of academic literature on the subject to evaluate benefits and challenges potentially associated with citation use, and gaps in that research.

 

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Citation in Lieu of Arrest Literature Review

Community-Police Engagement
Crime & Violence
Criminal Justice Reform
Education & Training
Human & Civil Rights
Leadership
Officer Safety & Wellness
Recruitment & Personnel
Document
/sites/default/files/all/c/Citation%20in%20Lieu%20of%20Arrest%20Literature%20Review.pdf

This literature review was created as part of the IACP's Citation in Lieu of Arrest: Examining Law Enforcement's Use of Citation Across the United States Project, to provide a snapshot of existing literature on the subject of citation in lieu of arrest.

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