Effective Police Interactions with Youth

107 South 15th Street,Hugo OK 74743

20 May, 2021

Description

Connecticut Model: Effective Police Interactions with Youth Effective Practices for Positive Interactions with Oklahoma Youth Project This highly interactive eight-hour course, will provide your officers/field staff/child-serving agency professionals with information and additional tools they need to guarantee positive outcomes for youth interacting with law enforcement/child-serving agencies. Best practices and model policies from across the country, including the State of Connecticut (one of the nation’s leaders in juvenile justice reform efforts) will be explained and discussed in depth. Critical aspects of this course will delve into • the role of patrol /school resource officers/child-serving agency professionals in helping to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system, thereby ensuring compliance with one of the OJJDP Act of 1974 (most currently known as the Juvenile Justice Reform Act of 2018) core requirements that all states work toward eliminating DMC/RED • improving participants understanding of implicit bias and how biases can affect decisions we make • what causes adolescents to behave the way they do, to test boundaries, challenge authority, and most importantly, controlling impulsivity. • practical strategies on how to communicate more effectively with young people, which results in better outcomes for all involved. Disrupting the pathway into the juvenile justice system starts with effective interactions between police/child-serving agency professionals and youth, for we are the gatekeepers into, or away from, the juvenile justice system. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the concepts of restorative justice practices, diversionary programs, and the philosophies of juvenile justice reform, is critical and will be discussed at length as part of this curriculum. Course content includes, but not limited to: racial and ethnic disparities in the juvenile justice system (including your state’s/municipality’s disproportionate minority contact relative rate index), restorative justice, formal and informal diversionary programs, practical strategies for interacting with youth in positive ways (including non-enforcement roles), adolescent development, trauma-informed practices, procedural justice concepts, and the disruption of the justice pathways for youth. This course is designed for all patrol officers, especially entry level, school resource officers, youth detectives (supervisory staff are also strongly encouraged), juvenile justice field workers, and all other child-serving agency professionals. Instructors are Police Officer Standards and Training Council Certified Police Instructors therefore, certification review training credits can be awarded.