Strategies for Youth  

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Training - Strategies & Value

Training - Strategies & Value Strategies

  • Assessment of police/youth relations from structural, attitudinal, and behavioral perspectives.
  • Use of assessment findings to develop training geared to the specific concerns and issues raised by officers, youth, and communities.
  • Ongoing technical assistance for:
    • Ongoing training opportunities for greater exploration of subgroups of youth, (i.e., working with immigrant families, gangs, and domestic violence issues among siblings);
    • Development of relationships between police and youth-serving organizations to create new services and diversion options for teens.

Value

  • Clarification of Department’s approach to working with teens, including support for cultural shift, structural changes in deployment of officers, and ensuring that department imperatives (i.e., regulations) support new approaches to policing;
  • Improved quality of relations within the department and between police, youth and the community, e.g., reduced complaints, arrests for minor infractions, and improve connection of teens to community resources in lieu of arrest;
  • Increased use of effective strategies and tactics to help reduce officer’s  OTJ stress, and reduction of escalation of incidents;
  • Maximize and reinforce success of officers skilled in dealing with teens;
  • Connection to community-based alternatives for low risk youth.
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