Coastal Coalition Trauma-Informed School Safety Training for SROs

DECODING STUDENT BEHAVIOR AND STRATEGIES TO ADDRESS THEM

This course is designed for school resource officers and officers in youth-serving agencies and organizations. Participants will learn the basics of how trauma impacts brain development, behavior, and learning, responding to crises with de-escalation, and the power of relationships and connection for building youth resilience. Participants will receive a certificate of attendance and contact hours.

Date:

Tuesday, August 13, 2024

Time:

9am-12pm

Location:

Eastern North Carolina Regional Skills Center: Burton Industrial Park

261 Northwest Corridor Boulevard, Jacksonville, NC 28540

Trainer:

Becky Haas - International Trauma-Informed Safety and Policing Expert

National Police Trainer Becky Haas has been training officers to understand the impact of trauma since 2017. Working for the Johnson City TN Police to reduce drug-related, violent crime and recidivism, she first learned about the prevalence of trauma and Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) in the lives of those involved in the justice system in 2014.

After training the Oklahoma City Police Department in 2019 in Trauma Informed Policing to prepare officers for launching Handle With Care, she co-authored an article with Oklahoma City Police Chief Wade Gorley on why all officers should understand the science of trauma which was published in the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) magazine in 2021. Last summer, she recorded a condensed version of this training for the National Virtual Academy.

For two years she has presented at the National School Resource Officer Conference a course she developed called, Decoding Student Behaviors and Strategies to Address Them, and as a result trained the Delaware State Police SROs in January to support the DE statewide Handle With Care program and will present to 1,500 Florida SROs in July. Prior to training officers about trauma, Becky was a Lead Child Passenger Safety Instructor in Tennessee.

This training opportunity is being offered by the Coastal Coalition for Substance Awareness & Prevention (CCSAP) through funding made possible by the Drug-Free Communities (DFC) Support Program, award number 5 NH28CE003077-04-00, and in collaboration with the Jacksonville Police Department.

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