Police Departments
ARISE as a Resource for Police Departments & School Resource Officers
ARISE has worked closely with both police departments and school resource officers in our mission to empower troubled youth. For example, ARISE has provided members of the Washington DC Metropolitan Police Department with life skills training and life skills curriculum for the last three years (see case study below). As a result of this beneficial partnership with law enforcement, we created ARISE – “Drop It at the Door”, an anger and stress management seminar to help police officers. We also wrote When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call? – a curriculum designed for police and school resource officers assigned to work with at-risk youth.
Case Study: ARISE and Washington DC’s Metropolitan Police Department
For the past three years, ARISE has trained a number of police officers at the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington D.C. as Certified Life Skills Instructors. We have also provided them with life skills curriculum to enhance their efforts to strengthen their communities. In particular, Officer Ingrid Dixon serves as our most shining example of how police officers can use the ARISE Life Skills Program to succeed in community outreach and teaching at risk youth how to overcome obstacles in life.
- Download a Fact Sheet on ARISE’s Work with Officer Dixon & the Metropolitan Police
- Read a letter of endorsement from Officer Dixon.
ARISE – “Drop It At The Door” Training
Anger and Stress Management Seminar for Police Departments
Police departments deal with unique stressors that inhibit performance and can cause health problems, including intense staff burnout, 6-day work weeks, and stress-related job turnover. Police department supervisors are exposed to grievances, performance appraisals, budget constraints, etc. on a daily basis. Patrol officers experience traumatic incidents, carnage, and violent encounters that literally impact their health and stress levels. Then there is the boomerang effect caused by carrying work-related problems home, which sooner or later gets transferred back to their respective jobs. Through the ARISE – “Drop it at the Door” program, immediate help is available to alleviate these serious problems.
The ARISE – “Drop it at the Door” training is a two-day workshop for managing stress and anger and building interpersonal and communication skills. Each day of training can be offered separately or combined for maximum impact.
This intensive staff training workshop is guaranteed to improve individual effectiveness by providing the know-how needed to dramatically decrease and avoid angry outbursts, loss of self-control, and meltdowns that cause stress and frustration at home and in the workplace. This training is especially beneficial to those working in stressful jobs such as law enforcement. These fresh, lively workshops will not only prepare participants to understand and verbally disarm difficult people, but it will also teach them how to avoid daily disasters by using simple yet effective tactics and techniques learned during this training experience.
Participants will come away with a personal tool box of anger and stress management tips, tactics, and strategies. They will have an understanding of how each of us can choose to drop negativity and frustration at the door. This will prevent the endless recycling of work and home stress that are often the root cause of physical and emotional problems, workman’s compensation claims, and job turnover.
Click here for more information on ARISE – “Drop it at the Door.
When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call?
A special course taught by law enforcement officers or school resource officers to at-risk youth.
ARISE has created special curriculum for law enforcement officers assigned to work with troubled and at-risk youth. The When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call? curriculum contains 11 perfect opportunities (lessons) for law enforcement officers to teach these youth fundamental life skills. The lessons are designed specifically to be taught on a weekly basis by law enforcement officers who have no previous teaching experience. The curriculum contains 11 one-hour lessons for elementary and middle school youth. Law enforcement officers will have the satisfaction of knowing they are addressing real concerns in lives of the youth, such as drugs, graffiti, guns, gangs, police confrontation, violence reduction, suicide, cults, safety, self-esteem, and anger management.
Through the curriculum the law enforcement officers will have a dramatic personal impact on the youth. Officers will have enough time to build solid relationships with the youth during the weekly sessions. There is time to share personal stories and provide the youth with the social support that is often lacking in their lives. When There’s Trouble, Who Do You Call? is the perfect opportunity to get to know at-risk youth on a non-confrontational basis, establish new channels of communication, and transform the negative police image most disadvantaged populations have. The bond built will never expire.
