WHO: This training is for law enforcement officers who interact with youth.
WHAT: Policing the Teen Brain is a two-day training designed to provide law enforcement officers with strategies to employ developmentally appropriate policies and practices, tools to recognize and work with traumatized youth, and effective approaches designed to avoid escalated responses during their interactions with them. Over the course of the two days, officers will:
- Understand how the teen brain works differently, with an emphasis on differences in the way teens perceive, process, and respond;
- Recognize and respond effectively to youth with mental health issues;
- Recognize and respond effectively to traumatized youth;
- Review risk factors as they relate to community demographics and cultural differences;
- Learn about tools to assert authority effectively with teens; and
- Identify ways to connect youth with youth-serving community based programs.
WHY: Advances in brain science and technology have shown that young people’s brains continue to mature until their early- to mid-twenties, and adolescents’ brains are different from adults’ brains both structurally and how they are influenced by chemicals produced by the body. Because of these differences, adolescents are more likely to be influenced by peers, engage in risky and impulsive behaviors, experience mood swings, or have reactions that are stronger or weaker than a situation warrants. This training will provide law enforcement officers with the tools that will help them to be more effective in dealing with adolescents. Click here for more information.
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