Responding to Veterans and Police Officers in Crisis
Description
Course Objectives and Agenda (CLICK HERE)
VIDEO PROMO Responding to Veterans and Police Officer in Crisis: https://youtu.be/8Cyes0Qa99Y
Please be aware that this class is a 20-hour training. Therefore, the first two days of training will be 8am-5pm local time. The last day will be 8am-12pm local time.
More police officers die by suicide every year than at the hands of an assailant. Dozens of veterans die by suicide every day. This class will provide you with tools to respond to both, while examining and building your own resiliency. We have never asked more of law enforcement. The old ways of talking about mental health won’t work; it is time to make a difference. Our goal is no officer hurt! No veteran hurt! With a stronger community and a more resilient police department.
This course is taught by aUS Marine Corps veteran who has worked with veterans and police officers on issues of transition and service for over two decades. His tools are used by our military and major police departments across the country. As a survivor of a tragic jet crash as a US Marine and someone who overcame severe PTSD, he understands personally the kind of issues veterans face coming home and how to respond to them. Working with thousands of police officers and hundreds of departments, he also understands how both veterans and police officers can face a darkness few other people understand. This can make it hard for both to “come home.”
This class will prepare your officers to better respond to veterans while making themselves more resilient. Combat veterans and police officers have similar lifetime rates of conditions like PTSD, and a resilient police department is the best way to prepare to respond to veterans in crisis.
Class Learning Objectives:
- Understand the difficulties veterans face in the transition home
- Understand how PTSD develops and manifests itself in veterans
- Understand how to defuse threatening situations with veterans
- Understand why resilient officers better respond to veterans in distress
- Create a culture of resiliency and proactive community awareness of veterans' issues
- Investigate the connection between suicide, PTSD, and the traumas of service
- Better understand the mindset of a veteran whose head is still on the battlefield
- Learn tools for helping veterans and first responders make healthy transitions from conditions of trauma
- Create a culture of resiliency and proactive community awareness of veteran and first responder issues
- Learn and use simple peer support tools that can be used in your department and your community
The feedback from this training has been remarkable:
"As a chief and former trainer at the Pennsylvania Police Academy, I can say this is one of the top 5 classes I have ever attended."
"Eye-opening. I am better equipped to respond to veterans and look out for my fellow officers."
"This is a class every officer needs to attend."
"I never fully appreciated the difficulty many veterans have coming home until this class.”
About the Instructor, Silouan Green:
Silouan has spoken and taught nationally for over two decades on leadership, peer support, PTSD, and mental health. He has taught around the country for organizations such as: the New York Police Department, National Park Service, Department of Homeland Security, National Association of Hostage Negotiators, California Highway Patrol, Broward County Sheriff's Office, Chicago Police Department, Bureau of Land Management, Walter Reed Medical Center, Fort Bragg, the University of California, the University of Wisconsin, Indiana University, Purdue University, Fort Campbell, Camp LeJeune, the American Red Cross, the Marine Corps League, Mental Health America, the National Association of Mental Illness, the Veterans Administration, the National Guard, hundreds of police and sheriff’s departments, countless conventions, and many other mental health and community organizations across the country.
Silouan is focused on delivering solid information and practical tools for leading. He gives a broad perspective that officers find refreshing, educational, and most of all, motivating to lead. What you learn in his classes can be implemented immediately to improve the morale and effectiveness of your team.
Silouan graduated from Vanderbilt University and then accepted a commission in the United States Marine Corps. While serving in the Marines, Silouan was involved in a jet training accident. In the ejection, Silouan's back was broken, and his co-pilot tragically killed. This horrible event and the complications that followed led to the development of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, PTSD. He was disability discharged and then had to learn to put his life back together. It began with a two-year motorcycle journey where he learned to live. He then devoted the rest of his life to service and helping others overcome trauma. He has written three books: “The Ladder UPP,” “Who Am I?,” and “Sycamore Hill”.