Law Enforcement Resiliency and Peer Support – Moberly, MO

The Law Enforcement Resiliency and Peer Support Training Course is a practical course of instruction designed to provide peer counselors with the ability to conduct individual psychological debriefings, provide peer counseling, make appropriate professional intervention referrals for peers and their family members as needed, and connect these approaches to the enhancement of human resiliency in the field of law enforcement and emergency response.

This training is open to Law Enforcement Officers, Fire Personnel, EMS, Police Chaplains, CIT officers and supervisors, Community Mental Health Liaisons, and anyone else who may be involved in the response to traumatic events and managing the aftereffects.

This unique course provides the newly assigned peer counselor with an understanding of traumatic stress, physiological aspects of stress, an overview of mental health issues, factors in emergency responder suicide, effective communication, and drug and alcohol use and abuse. Students will learn how to conduct individual psychological debriefings and initiate and manage peer support programs.

A dynamic group study and presentation is required to demonstrate the students understanding of peer counseling approaches and policies.

Topics include:

• Overview of peer support and resiliency
• Principles of police stress
• Peer support for the family
• Overview of mental and emotional health issues related to police stress
• Physiological aspects of stress
• Understanding drug and alcohol abuse
• Police suicide
• Effective communication
• Coping with stress
• Human resiliency and law enforcement
• Conducting debriefings
• Peer support program management

POST Curricular and Topic area CEU’s
32 Interpersonal Perspectives 
• 24 Hours (Well-being)
• 8 Hours (Handling)
4 Technical Studies
• 4 Hours (Well-being)
4 Skill Development 
• 4 Hours (Tactical)

Cost: $495.00

Cancellation Policy:
Full refunds will be accommodated up to 5 working days prior to the seminar. Cancellations five business days before the start of class or no-shows will be subject to a 20 percent service charge regardless of payment type.