Training Course: Introduction to AAPI Communication Styles
Expected Delivery Date: January 2013
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Asian Media Access, Inc.
Target Audience: Sworn and non-sworn law enforcement personnel

Course Description: The goal of the training, Introduction to AAPI Communication Styles, is to increase the capacity of law enforcement personnel to recognize and understand various cultures and communication styles among AAPI communities and their Meth-related problems.Training will include AAPI communities' cultural traits and Meth usage problems, opportunities to understand communication style and cultural variations in AAPI communities, and how using high/low context communication concepts can influence message development in supporting of AAPI cultures and communication styles. 

For additional information on this course: www.amamedia.org

Training Course: Introduction to Community-Police Strategies for AAPI Communities
Expected Delivery Date: May 2013
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Asian Media Access, Inc.
Target Audience: AAPI community members

Course Description: The goal of the training, Introduction to Community-Police Strategies for AAPI Communities, is to increase the capacity of AAPI parents, and other AAPI community members, to identify and address Meth-related problems in their families and the AAPI community, and understand the role of law enforcement in a community policing context. The training will be held in an effort to increase AAPI Communities’ understanding of community-policing strategies that build and strengthen mutual respect, accountability, and trust with law enforcement agencies. The training will include information on how to collaborate with law enforcement and other authorities in reporting suspicious house parties and drug selling, understanding community policing, and AAPI cultural implications of Meth usage. 

For additional information on this course: www.amamedia.org

Training Course: Procedural Justice for Law Enforcement Agencies: Organizational Change through the Integration of Procedural Justice Core Principles into Decision Making and Policies.
Expected Delivery Date: April 2012
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Center for Public Safety and Justice at the University of Illinois (Springfield)
Target Audience: Law Enforcement Managers and Supervisors (sworn and non-sworn)

Course Description: The procedural justice curriculum will expand emphasis on procedural justice and its core principles throughout law enforcement, focusing on respect, legitimacy, and the concept of fairness ultimately demonstrated in interactions between law enforcement and the community. The purpose of the curriculum is to create a broader awareness of procedural justice and its core principles; provide practical steps to integrate procedural justice at the organizational level by training law enforcement executives on how to incorporate procedural justices core principles into organizational decision-making and policies; and to help agencies create an environment where procedural justices core principles become standard practice. The curriculum will guide users on implementation considerations and strategies, raising their awareness and aiding them in becoming more effective in fostering an environment where procedural justice core principles become a standard practice within law enforcement and policing

For additional information on this course: http://ricp.uis.edu

Training Course: Public Safety De-Escalation Tactics for Military Veterans in Crisis
Expected Delivery Date: June 2012
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: law enforcement, Fire, EMS personnel, 911 dispatchers, and campus and hospital security that have regular contact with returning service members in crisis

Course Description: The goal of the training, Public Safety De-Escalation Tactics for Military Veterans in Crisis, is to build skills and capacity among public safety personnel to respond to military veterans (all branches), with a special awareness of those service members who have been deployed in their military career.  15 one-day regional instructor-led trainings will focus on awareness and tactics for public safety personnel who may encounter crisis situations that result from veteran re-integration.  The training will include identification of mental illness and behavioral disorders, causal factors of military veteran stress-related conditions, converging conditions that may indicate higher risk for stress-related disorders (conditions that indicate high risk for stress-related disorders and difficulty adjusting to civilian life), officer safety principles to offset increased risk that may be encountered by public safety personnel negotiating or de-escalating crisis involving military veterans, and operational use of de-escalation techniques (based on case studies of successful applications).

For additional information on this course: www.umcpi.org

Training Course: Tribal Methamphetamine Technical Assistance Summit
Expected Delivery Date: May 2012
Mode of Delivery: Onsite Training and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Strategic Applications International
Target Audience: Native American Tribes that received COPS Tribal Meth grants in FY10 and FY11

Course Description: In 2010, SAI received funding to provide the COPS Office Tribal Meth grantees with training and technical assistance (T/TA). SAI’s innovative T/TA model promotes the role of indigenous leadership in building capacity to identify and implement best practices using community-policing principles in the 40+ COPS Tribal Meth Grantee sites to address methamphetamine trafficking and the effects of its use on tribal communities. The T/TA model creates a learning environment in which all participants (grantees, SAI, Tribal Fellows and other content experts) are listening, sharing, analyzing, and documenting key learnings from their work in addressing methamphetamine in Indian Country.  Grantees receive training in the three pillars of community policing, how to develop their own needs assessments, mobilize key stakeholders and communities, and design a community-based participatory research model.

For additional information on this course: www.sai-dc.com

Training Course: Procedural Justice Line Officer Training
Expected Delivery Date: April 2013     
Mode of Delivery: Classroom Training
Training Provider: King County Sheriff Office
Target Audience: Line Officers

Course Description: The  Procedural Justice Line Officer Training will provide practical steps on how to integrate procedural justice at the line officer level by training law enforcement officers on how to incorporate core principles of procedural justice into decision-making and actions; and to help agencies create an environment where procedural justice core principles become standard practice.  The training will include a  participants guide on implementation considerations and strategies, raising their awareness and aiding them in becoming more effective in fostering an environment where procedural justice core principles become a standard practice within law enforcement and policing. This training will be delivered in Washington State’s POST, as well as two (TBD) agencies around the county.

For additional information on this course: http://www.kingcounty.gov/safety/sheriff.aspx