COPS Training Portal
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To view the full library of eLearning Courses and Resources, select the Catalog tab at the top of this page.
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The COPS Office is a leader in developing and providing innovative training to advance community policing for all levels of law enforcement and the communities they serve. The COPS Office provides numerous trainings and support materials in a variety of formats, including curricula, guidebooks, webinars, publications, conference presentations, podcasts, and videos.
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The COPS Training Portal provides a convenient avenue for law enforcement professionals and community partners throughout the United States and territories to access interactive online training in emerging public safety topics and serves as a gateway to a variety of multimedia community policing resources at no cost.
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Innovations in Crisis Response: What CIT Programs Need to Know (e-Guide)
Recently, innovations in crisis response have made it possible for local communities to increase their capacity for responses that do not place responsibility solely on law enforcement. The e-Guide highlights trends in crisis response including 988 – the national crisis line number, law-enforcement and mental health co-response teams, growth of non-law enforcement community responders, and mobile crisis teams for children and youth. Each innovation is illustrated by an in-depth case study of a community or state program which includes audio interviews, commentary by experts in the field, lessons learned, links to outside resources and organizations, and a checklist of next steps for local CIT leaders interested in bringing these innovations to their communities.
Target Audience: Law
enforcement agencies and practitioners, as well as mental health agencies and
practitioners, telecommunicators, crisis line staff, mental health advocates
and other community organizations.
Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free online resource was developed by the National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) and was originally supported by cooperative agreement 15JCOPS-21-GK-02306-SPPS by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Crisis Response
Crisis Intervention First Look: Focused Response for Veterans
Course Overview: Crisis Intervention First Look: Focused Response for Veterans, an eLearning course, offers insights and practical guidance on the applicability of Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) for veterans in crisis. A significant aspect of responding to veterans in mental health crises is the delivery of appropriate and effective service. Addressing psychological distress among those who have served in our nation’s armed forces introduces a variety of unique factors to crisis response.
First responders and community service providers are turning to the CIT and Veterans Response Team models for a collaborative, structured, and coordinated approach to veteran-focused crisis response. The course examines factors impacting veterans’ mental health, the applicability of CIT in veteran-crisis response and Veterans Response Teams, and next steps and resources for implementation. Gain perspective on these topics from law enforcement officers, mental-health practitioners, and veteran and mental-health advocates.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine psychological distress among veterans
- Examine possible indicators of psychological distress that may manifest in veterans
- Explore key factors impacting veterans in need of mental health support
- Recall current veteran-focused crisis response practices, including Veterans Response teams being implemented by CIT practitioners
- Describe elements of the CIT model that may effectively serve veterans in crisis and differentiate the additional elements in a Veterans Response team.
- Examine the goals and desired outcomes related to veteran-focused crisis response and the CIT model
- Recognize the next steps in Veterans Response Teams implementation planning
- Examine the benefits of collaborating with veteran support organizations and advocacy groups when planning CIT or Veterans Response Teams implementation
Target Audience: Public safety and community service practitioners, decision-makers, and policy planners from any discipline involved in facilitating effective responses to mental health crises experienced by veterans.
Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free online training was developed by the National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) and was originally supported by cooperative agreement 15JCOPS-21-GK-02306-SPPS by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Learning Hours: 1 hour including the pre-test and post-test.
Arizona POST Approved Course
AZPOST does not require the standard approval form for this course; however, if you would like one, please contact AZPOST directly at contactus@azpost.gov.
Crisis Intervention First Look: Focused Response for Youth
Course Overview: Crisis Intervention First Look: Focused Response for Youth, an eLearning course, offers insights and practical guidance on the applicability of Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) for the youth population. As children and teens confront startling rates of psychological distress, first responders and community service providers turn to the CIT model for a collaborative, structured, and coordinated response.
The course explores the growing factors impacting youth mental health and the needs of various youth populations such as the LGBTQ+ community. Focusing on the applicability of CIT youth crisis response, the course provides next steps and resources for CIT implementation. Law enforcement officers, mental health practitioners, and mental health advocates draw upon their unique experiences to share best practices.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine the contributing factors to mental health crises in young people
- Explore the impact of youth mental health issues on communities
- Examine the need for crisis response for youth who are members of populations such as the LGBTQ+ community
- Explore current youth-focused crisis response practices being implemented by CIT practitioners
- Examine the goals and desired outcomes related to youth-focused crisis response and the CIT model
- Identify the potential benefits of CIT implementation on youth-focused crisis response
- Explore the next steps in CIT implementation planning to support youth in crisis
- Identify key national CIT, youth support, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and mental health organizations and resources
Target Audience: Public safety and community service practitioners, decision makers, and policy planners from any discipline involved in facilitating effective responses to youth mental-health crises.
Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free online training was developed by the National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) and was originally supported by cooperative agreement 15JCOPS-21-GK-02306-SPPS by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Learning Hours: 1 hour including the pre-test and post-test.
Arizona POST Approved Course
AZPOST does not require the standard approval form for this course; however, if you would like one, please contact AZPOST directly at contactus@azpost.gov.
Crisis Intervention: Overview of Effective Models
Faced with alarming rates of psychological distress within communities across the nation, first responders and community service providers are turning to the CIT Model for a collaborative, structured, and coordinated response. The course addresses the rise in mental health crises, the applicability of the CIT Model in crisis response, and next steps and resources for CIT implementation. Gain perspective on these topics from law enforcement officers, mental-health practitioners, and mental-health advocates.
Learning Objectives:
- Examine key aspects of the current mental health crisis
- Recognize the range of crisis response options and models
- Describe the ways in which CIT implementation may benefit police, mental health agencies, and the public
- Identify the goals and desired outcomes related to the CIT Model
- Examine the community-based and collaborative dynamics of the CIT Model
- Identify the relationship between CIT and community policing
- Explain the partnership between law enforcement and mental health agencies in a CIT program
- Explore the opportunities to build program capacity through stakeholder engagement and feedback
- Illustrate the characteristics of effective crisis response systems
- Describe practices that may assist partnership agencies in effective implementation planning, community engagement, and response to challenges
- Consider the composition of a crisis response steering committee
- Highlight pre-planning considerations such as funding, training, personnel, and identifying resources
- Identify key national, CIT, and mental health organizations and resources
- Introduce the CIT Programs Best Practices Guide and the CIT ASSIST Resource Center
- Introduce the web-based supplemental courses that complement this course
Target Audience: Decision makers, policy planners, and leadership in law enforcement and public safety agencies.
Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free online training was developed by the National Center for Policing Innovation (NCPI) and was originally supported by cooperative agreement 15JCOPS-21-GK-02306-SPPS by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services.
Learning Hours: 4 hours including the pre-test and post-test.
Arizona POST Approved Course
AZPOST does not require the standard approval form for this course; however, if you would like one, please contact AZPOST directly at contactus@azpost.gov.
Tribal Policing
Effective Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration in Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons Cases
Course Overview: Effective Multi-Jurisdictional Collaboration in Missing or Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) Cases, an eLearning course, explores how partnerships between Tribal law enforcement and local, state, federal, and private sector agencies can strengthen and help sustain their efforts to prevent and effectively respond to MMIP cases using a fair, victim-centered and trauma-informed approach.
This course teaches how tribal, federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and private organizations can form partnerships through the use of Memorandums of Understanding/Memorandums of Agreement (MOU/MOAs), as well and other relationship-enhancing shared resources, to support communication and collaboration to prevent and respond effectively to MMIP cases. Through a case study exercise, students will learn how MOU/MOAs can be used as a guide for law enforcement agencies seeking to enhance their MMIP efforts by memorializing cooperative arrangements.
Learning Objectives:
- Identify
gaps in jurisdictional authority, expertise, and resources that could
impede an effective response to MMIP situations.
- Identify multi-jurisdictional partnership and collaboration agreements to supplement existing MMIP resources.
- Incorporate the key components of community policing into a Tribal law enforcement agency’s approach to developing partnerships and agreements to effectively manage, investigate, respond to, and solve MMIP cases.
- Draft, develop, and implement MOU/MOAs that effectively facilitate the formalization and adaption of agreements and resource-sharing efforts for effectively addressing MMIP cases.
- Establish multi-jurisdictional best practice protocols and procedures for successfully investigating MMIP cases.
Target Audience: The target audience for this online course is Tribal, federal, state, and local criminal justice agencies with responsibility for preventing and effectively responding to MMIP cases, including the following disciplines: law enforcement, emergency medical services, victim services, government administration, public safety communications, media/communications, medical/health care, education, emergency managers, community stakeholders.
Cooperative Partners: This tuition-free online training was developed by the Western Community Policing Institute (WCPI) and was supported by cooperative agreement 15JCOPS-21-GK-02123-SIND by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).
Learning Hours: 3 hours including the pre-test and post-test.
Arizona POST Approved Course
AZPOST does not require the standard approval form for this course; however, if you would like one, please contact AZPOST directly at contactus@azpost.gov.