HOMELAND SECURITY
(See Homeland Security Brochure)

Creating Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities for Homeland Security
Only with strong partnerships, enhanced networking capabilities, and organized community infrastructures can United States communities become vigilant, prepared, and resilient in the war on terrorism and other events of national significance. Whether security threats involves acts of terrorism or natural or man-made disasters, a community's ability to become vigilant, prepared, and resilient depends upon the efforts/partnerships of law enforcement, governmental and non-governmental organizations, community members, and tribal members who are adequately trained and equipped. With the continued threat of terrorist attacks and other events of national significance, now more than ever, it is incumbent on every U.S. citizen to not become a burden in times of crisis. This two-day course is designed to provide law enforcement personnel, governmental and non-governmental organization representatives, and community members awareness-level information, as well as capacity building, that leads to creating vigilant, prepared, and resilient communities for homeland security and events of national significance. This course includes classroom instruction, problem-based learning strategies, and practical" hands-on" activities. Topics include: Problem-Based Learning technique and application, elements of group dynamics (including team building, leadership principles, and conflict resolution), community policing history and tenets, components of homeland security preparedness and response (including terrorism and fear considerations), community responsibility, ethics, vision development, and action planning.

The Leader's Role in Creating Vigilant, Prepared, and Resilient Communities
This one-day course is designed to increase public safety executives' level of terrorism awareness and preparation skills to engage the community in all-hazards and anti-terrorism strategies through partnering with federal, state, and local agencies. Through this highly interactive training, public safety managers and executives will team up with other agency personnel to share strategies and successes. Using a practical, real-life scenario, participants will identify community resources to be deployed in a real terrorist incident, natural disaster, or any event of national significance. In this course, participants will: Learn about Federal, state, and local anti-terrorism and homeland security resources, determine the preparedness needs of their jurisdiction, identify specific goals for higher levels of community preparedness in their jurisdictions, identify community partners who will assist in identifying and addressing preparedness gaps, use an implementation model to prepare an action plan, and evaluate methods to achieve identified goals for their jurisdiction. Upon course completion, participants will have developed an initial plan for addressing anti-terrorism and all-hazards issues of vigilance, preparedness, and resiliency.

Embracing, Engaging, and Sustaining Tribal Partnerships for Regional Homeland Security Program

Homeland security is as an issue that requires the best efforts and collaboration of the entire community and surrounding communities. Recognizing and respecting the unique cultural strengths and challenges within tribal communities, this program seeks to encourage all relevant stakeholders, tribal and non-tribal, to embrace, engage, and sustain working collaborative partnerships to address homeland security and tribal infrastructure protection on tribal lands. This program has been designed to create a culturally-competent, mutually respectful, and cooperative learning opportunity, in which tribal and/or non-tribal individuals from a geographic adjoining jurisdiction can build the necessary collaborative relationships, policies, and procedures to address homeland security issues in and around tribal communities. The target audience for this program includes representatives from public safety programs, governmental and non-governmental organizations, school and post-secondary education institutions, social service programs, private sector corporations, medical organizations, tribal community leaders, and community members.

Embracing Tribal Partnerships for Regional Homeland Security Collaboration

This two-day course is designed to train and equip those who live in or around tribal communities with the skills necessary to create and embrace partnerships between tribal and non- tribal entities to promote and develop regional homeland security collaboration. Participants attend as teams from a respective tribe or an associated geographically adjoining jurisdiction for regional homeland security collaborations. This course offers “hands-on” application and insight into the community's role and responsibility in managing homeland security and other events of national and domestic significance through an all-hazards approach. Course topics include: Introduction to Tribal Homeland Security, Understanding Homeland Security Threats to Tribal lands, Defining Vulnerabilities and Identifying Available Resources, Understanding the Unique Status of Tribes, The GAP Analysis Process and Creating Mechanisms for Cooperation, and Group Presentations.


COMMUNITY POLICE TEAMS

Developing Community-Police Teams
This one-day course is designed to provide law enforcement, local government, tribal government leadership, and community members an opportunity to work together on issues impacting their community, using the community policing process. This process includes the components of facilitating change, team building, building partnerships, problem solving, and action planning.

Tribal Community-Police Teams
This two-day training is designed to bring together Tribal Government, community members and law enforcement top learn techniques on how to empower their communities to ethically identify and solve community problems through the use of community policing concepts, advocacy, and problem-solving. Topics include: Community policing principles, team building, community-police relationships, creating collaborative partnerships, problem-solving through identification, analysis, and response development, facilitating change,and action planning. During this training, relationships are formed and teams return to their respective tribes/communities to implement their action plans applying problem-solving and collaborative partnership strategies.

Community Policing and Problem Solving
This one-day course provides a foundational training block for community policing and problem solving. This course is designed to help communities begin addressing crime and livability issues. Topics include: Basic components of community policing, partnership building, SARA problem solving method, and action planning development strategies.

Methamphetamine Abuse Intervention and Prevention Across Tribal Boundaries

Tribal Youth Leadership

This twelve-session course is designed to provide students with an opportunity to learn, develop, and apply leadership skills while also assisting project staff in creating a tribal youth-focused meth prevention program. During each class session, students will be introduced to a specific leadership concepts and skills, such as critical thinking, partnership building, or problem solving, and then be provided with a hands-on opportunity to practice that skill using experiential activities. Through working in learning teams, students will analyze and apply their skills to complete course assignments and activities. Class session will be facilitated by knowledgeable Native American leaders and subject matter experts, who will work with students and act as mentors and positive role models. Woven throughout the program will be meth awareness and prevention information and students will play an active role in providing the valuable youth-perspective for the development of a tribal youth meth prevention program. This course centers on the elements of leadership, tribal core competencies, and the partnership-based problem solving community policing model. During this course, students will have the opportunity to learn, demonstrate, and use these strategies and skills through a blended learning approach that includes interactive classroom discussion, problem-based learning (PBL), hands on activities, and practical demonstrations.

PRESIDENT'S DNA INITIATIVE

Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology
This interactive 2-day workshop is intended for law enforcement and emergency first responder groups involved with the identification, collection, and preservation of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) evidence. It can be adapted for any group interested in sharing the responsibility of ensuring the integrity and use of DNA evidence. This 16-hour class focuses on the identification, collection, preservation, and usage of DNA evidence. This program makes extensive use of group exercises, problem-solving scenarios, and case studies. The sessions will be interactive and will not only examine the topics identified, but will encourage participants to think about how this topic is supported by and integrated with the community policing philosophy.
The overall goal of the program is to give law enforcement and other criminal justice professionals the information they need concerning the collection and usage of DNA evidence so that critical pieces of evidence will be collected, fewer cases will be jeopardized by the mishandling of evidence, and more cases could be solved by the proper use of this technology. This program will create a context in which evidence identification, collections, transportation, storage, and usage can be applied to scenario-based situations. Participants will have the opportunity to apply newly acquired knowledge by working in crime scene simulation exercises. Topics include: Crime scenes, evidence collection techniques, laboratory analysis, personal protective equipment use, and using results.

ETHICS

Ethics for Field Training Officers and Supervisors
This 8-hour training explores the importance of ethics in leadership, the responsibilities of mentors relating to ethics, and the interplay between culture and ethics. This training provides specific tools for ethical decision making and uses scenarios and classroom interaction to apply those tools. In this training, participants will be able to define the relationship between ethical behavior and officer survival, identify and define the impact of surroundings and relationships on decision making, describe the principles and standards of ethical policing, apply the Constitution, Code of Ethics, and the Golden Rule to ethical decision making, apply a decision-making process to arrive at an ethically sound decision, and explain the importance of modeling ethical decision-making methods to new officers and subordinates.

Ethics for the Individual Officer
This three-day class was developed for individual officers to help them: Identify key components of the Law Enforcement Code of Ethics, Understand the evolution of law enforcement historical eras, recognize and understand the professional and legal standards of law enforcement and their implications, use decision-making tools when facing ethical dilemmas, understand Kolberg's six stages of moral development, identify factors that lead to unethical behavior, understand how ethics apply to the police profession and to their personal lives, participate fully and effectively in case study discussions, identify key points of ethics and moral decision-making, and apply new knowledge to participant's professional life.

Ethics In Leadership
This 16 hour training provides tools to consciously apply ethics in the law enforcement profession and in everyday life. This course is designed to bring police and community members together in an environment conducive to team building and problem solving. It explores social contract theory and culture, as well as leadership practices that enforce and reinforce ethical behavior. At the conclusion of this course, participants will be able to: Define ethics, discuss the origin of ethical behavior, apply two of four ethical decision-making models, develop a personal and professional ethical growth plan using the six pillars of character, identify and define the characteristics of effective leadership, identify leadership practices that demonstrate ethical leadership principles, describe the role of professional codes of ethics, discuss the principles of ethical policing, explain the contract between community and government, explain how culture and subculture affect communities, explain the effects of organizational ethics on the relationship with the community, and describe the connectivity between personal, professional, and community ethics.

UNDERSANDING THE ARAB AND MUSLIM CULTURAL MINDSETS

Understanding the Arab and Muslim Cultural Mindsets
This one-day course is designed to provide an understanding the Arab and Muslim cultural mindset as they relate to contemporary Middle East issues. The instructor, Jon Taaballe, was born and raised in Beirut, Lebanon. He came to the United States and obtained a Master's degree in Marketing from UCLA. He has worked in the banking industry and export business. He is currently a consultant for the Federal Bureau of Investigations, a translator, an analyst, and a lecturer. The insight shared by Mr. Taaballe will provide commanders of tactical teams, EOC/ICS commanders, emergency managers, and fire service commanders a deeper understanding of how to prepare and respond to potential threats that originate outside their borders or their cultural understanding.

CPTED (Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design)

Safer By Design
This one-day course is designed to provide basic CPTED principles (natural surveillance, lighting, landscaping, image and maintenance, fences and barriers, activity support, access control and physical security, territorial reinforcement), CPTED team building, and CPTED strategies to address specific criminal activity. This pro-active crime-fighting technique is used to reduce crime, bolster access control, limit criminal escape opportunities, address underlying causes of criminal activity, create a sense of community ownership, decrease community fear of crime, improve quality of life in the community, and serve as a starting point for other community development and improvement programs.
*A two day "Expanded Theories"' delivery is also available.

CLANDESTINE LABORATORIES

Clandestine Laboratory Enforcement
This 8-hour course prepares state and local law enforcement agencies to address the special problems they may encounter in dealing with clandestine laboratories. Though a series of lectures and case studies, participants learn about the dangers of clandestine laboratories and associated risks to personnel and the community. From an understanding of these issues, students become aware of the importance of involving the community and other agencies to implement a comprehensive enforcement and prevention program. Topics include: Background of the clandestine laboratory problem, identifying clandestine laboratories, methamphetamine synthesis and production, hazards to personnel and the community, suspect and user characteristics, investigating clandestine laboratories, and community awareness and involvement.

Clandestine Laboratory Awareness for First Responders
This 4-hour course is suitable for law enforcement line personnel, firefighters, EMS, and other first responders who may inadvertently come in contact with a clandestine laboratory. Course attendees are provided with timely and critical information on chemicals and equipment commonly found at clandestine drug laboratories. More importantly, they are made aware of the hazards associated with clandestine laboratories and action s that should be taken (or not taken) at a suspected lab site. Topics include: History of methamphetamine, characters ics of methamphetamine abusers, chemicals and equipment commonly found at clandestine laboratories, methamphetamine production methods, and hazards to first responder personnel and the community.

Supervising Clandestine Laboratory Investigations
This 16-hour course prepares supervisors and managers in state and local law enforcement agencies to address the specialized problems and risks associated with supervising clandestine laboratory investigations. Lectures and case studies are used to introduce students to the specific roles, responsibilities of supervisors who manage clandestine laboratory operation. Students will also become aware of the principles of emergency management as they relate to the safety of enforcement personnel. The training includes information on ways to involve the community in identifying suspected clandestine laboratory operators and sites. Topics include: Current issues in clandestine laboratory enforcement, hazards to personnel and the community, compliance with Federal safety rules and regulations, role of the supervisor in clandestine laboratory investigations, investigating clandestine laboratories, raid planning and execution, hazard assessment, site control, and decontamination, analyzing the local meth market, building and improving community response programs, and coordination with outside agencies.

Clandestine Laboratories: A Serious Community Problem
This 2-hour course is designed to inform community members about the hazards associated with clandestine laboratories, and to enlist their support in identifying possible lab sites. Attendees are provided with information on the location, chemicals, and equipment most frequently used to manufacture methamphetamine. Most importantly, community members are shown ways to support their local law enforcement agency's efforts to combat clandestine laboratories. Topics include: Overview of the clandestine laboratory problem, history and effects of methamphetamine, identifying clandestine laboratories, chemicals and equipment used to manufacture methamphetamine, hazards to the community, and assisting your law enforcement agency.

LANDLORD/TENANT TRAINING PROGRAM

Keeping Illegal Activity Out of Rental Property
This one day training, developed by John H. Campbell DeLong Resources, Inc., Portland, Oregon has received national recognition as an Innovation in State and Local Government by the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. This training delivers two important messages: Effective property management can have a major impact on community wellness, and there are accessible, legitimate techniques to stop the spread of crime in rental property. Topics include: Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) principles, the landlord's role in maintaining healthy communities, applicant screening, rental agreements, ongoing management, community involvement and improvement, warning signs of drug activity, what to do if you discover a clandestine lab, crisis resolution, the role of the police, and an overview of subsidized housing issues.