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Responding to Veterans & Police Officers in Crisis

Oct. 23, 2017
8:00 am - 4:00 pm
Tuition:  Free
ILEAS Training Center
1701 East Main St.
Urbana, IL 61802
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Certification

This course is certified by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board.

Training Mandates

This course meets state guidelines for the following mandated subject areas:

  • Use of Force  (annual)
  • Human Rights  (every 3 yrs.)
  • Procedural Justice  (every 3 yrs.)

Description

This course will be presented by Silouan Green, a veteran who has worked for almost a decade with veterans and police officers on issues of transition and service.  A survivor of a tragic jet crash as a U.S. Marine, he overcame severe PTSD and personally understands the kind of issues veterans face coming home and how to respond to them.  The course will prepare officers to better respond to veterans while making themselves more resilient.  Combat veterans and police officers have similar lifetime rates of conditions like PTSD, and a resilient police department is the best way to prepare to respond to veterans.

The course will focus on tactics, techniques and procedures when responding to a veteran or police officer that may be suffering from anxiety, depression or PTSD and will help to establish skills to assist in these special times.  More and more veterans are coming home to our communities, and while many have a healthy transition, others face a myriad of difficulties from unemployment, depression, PTSD, and in some cases, destructive behavior such as domestic violence, suicide or other disturbances.

This training will benefit patrol officers, detectives, street supervisors, agency managers, crisis negotiators, CIT officers, CIT instructors, and police social workers.

This course is funded by the Illinois Law Enforcement Training and Standards Board through its Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training Program.

Topics

  • Understanding the difficulties veterans face in the transition home
  • Understanding how PTSD develops and manifests itself in veterans
  • Effective techniques for communicating with PTSD subjects
  • How to defuse threatening situations with veterans
  • Why resilient officers respond better to veterans in distress
  • Creating a culture of resiliency in law enforcement

Instructor

Silouan Green

Silouan Green
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