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On Monday, June 24, 2019, the FBI National Academy Associates (FBINAA) Maryland/ Delaware Chapter sponsored a Comprehensive Officer Resiliencesm Train-The-Trainer Program at the Delaware State Police - Troop 2 Paris Conference Room in Newark Delaware. The 3-day training program was paid in part by a Motorola grant through the FBINAA, and the FBINAA Maryland/Delaware Chapter. The Train-The-Trainer Program was developed to equip police leaders and instructors with the strategic tools and lessons to create an environment within their organization to support behavioral health initiatives. The instructors of the Train-The-Trainer Program come from a diverse background of police executives, mental health providers, and survivors. To date, over 500 individuals have completed the Train-the-Trainer Program.

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T he Comprehensive Officer Resiliency Programsm is made up of 4 domains and tenants. The four domains are the areas of a person’s life that capture the totality of how they experience and relate to others and themselves, and being fit across the four domains will lead to a more resilient individual. These tenants are the key characteristics in an individual that foster resilience, and they are the foundation for this training to include: mental, physical, social, and spiritual. The training builds on the rationale that people are not born resilient, but that they learn to be resilient through life experiences and training. The program covers 12 lessons that can be taught as individual stand-alone modules, in conjunction with several modules, or as a complete 12 module training session. A few of the module titles are: Counting Blessings, Accomplishing Goals, ABC (Activating event, Brain, Consequences), Check your Playbook, Physical Resilience, and Good Listing & Active Constructive Responding (ACR) . The goal of the Train-The-Trainer program is to teach future instructors how to integrate the lessons into a police environment, whether in recruit, in-service, shift briefings, subordinate coaching/mentoring or counseling sessions, crisis incident stress management, or in day-to-day operations. The Train-The-Trainer Program focuses not on the specific content within the module, but on how to use the material to train officers. Each module was reviewed for content and application, and class discussion and sharing was paramount to the learning experience. At the end of the training, the students were divided into groups with an instructor to show their proficiency and ability to teach one of the modules. Group feedback was critical to student success. The Maryland/Delaware Chapter hosted 20 students from 13 agencies from across Maryland and Delaware. The law enforcement agencies represented included: Charles County Sheriff's Department, Delaware Capitol Police, Delaware State Police, Delaware State University Police Department, Howard County Police Department, Hartford County Sheriff's Office, Prince George's County Police Department, State of Delaware Probation & Parole, Maryland Transportation Authority Police, New Castle County Police Department, University of Delaware Police Department, and Wilmington Police Department. The CORP Instructors for the 3-day training were NYPD Deputy Inspector Vincent Greany , Deputy Inspector, Commanding

Officer, 32nd Precinct; Deputy Chief Ron Winegar , Boise Police Department; Ms. Mary VanHaute , Suicide Prevention Specialist for the St. Petersburg College Center for Public Safety; and Mr. Jeff McClish , Crisis Intervention Administrator for the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety. Within days of the new instructors graduating from the course, the modules were instituted into several training settings to include: recruit training, basic officers’ school, civilian in-service, supervisors’ leadership training, shift briefings, agency chaplain interactions, probation officer & probationer meetings, and subordinate counseling sessions. The 12 modules are the building blocks for several agencies as they develop agency-wide training and in the creation of Wellness Units and Programs. The Delaware State Police, who hosted and facilitated the training, have already incorporated the Comprehensive Officer Resiliencesmmodules into recruit training and supervisory leadership training. To date, over 250 Troopers and Municipal Officers from 6 recruit classes at the Academy, as well as 25 supervisors in the 3-week Leadership Development Program from 9 agencies in Delaware and Maryland, and 45 Officers and Practitioners attending the State of Delaware National Alliance on Mental Illness Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Program have received a portion of the CORP from the Delaware State Police. The CORP is also an essential training component for the Delaware State Police’s newly established DSP Employee Wellness Program. populations but in its flexibility to be used with civilians and the capability to teach it face-to-face or online. Lessons have been shared and taught to multiple civilian and nonpolice groups, including the University of Delaware Women's Field Hockey Team and a University of Delaware Criminal Justice Systems course of 108 students. In both groups, research and definitions of resiliency established the foundations for the next lesson of “Counting Blessings.” During the “Counting Blessings” module, student-athletes and students completed the same exercises taught to police officers. The groups shared their resiliency stories, noted three good things that occurred within the last 24-hours, and ultimately wrote gratitude letters to someone in their life or from their past that has vitally contributed to their This program's impact and potential lie not only in its application and implementation within police officer

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