The DMC Youth Law Enforcement Curriculum is a one-day training for police academy recruits, experienced law enforcement officers and youth. The Curriculum has four modules:
Module 1: Facilitated Panel Discussion
A Panel of youth and Officers from the community in a facilitated conversation about their experiences in the community with participation from youth and law enforcement participants in the audience. The facilitator guides conversation about stereotypes that influence interactions between young people and police. panelists also discuss situations that can cause conflict between youth and officers as well as examples of positive interactions. panelists draw from their real-life experience, ensuring that the dialogue is relevant to the community. role play scenarios are used during the panel to help officers and young people understand what it feels like to the other side during some of these encounters and to talk about what would make interactions more positive.
Module 2: Small Group Discussions
Facilitated conversation with youth and officers from the panel audience to talk in depth about the issues raised in the panel. Participants explore challenges and discuss what they would like to see from each other and their peers.
Shared Meal: Youth and officers are seated together for lunch, which provides time for less formal conversations. The shared meal is an especially powerful time for officers and youth to get to know each other as individuals and to build connections that often last long after the event.
Module 3: Adolescent Development and Youth Trauma (Law Enforcement)
Module 3a: Think About it First (Youth)
Separate sessions for officers and youth address concepts that can directly affect each group's understanding of the other.
Law enforcement officers learn how teenage brain development, trauma and gender affect the way the teens make decisions and respond to authority. The session incorporates strategies to deescalate tense situations with young people.
The youth module explores different perspectives and the ways that the information we have shapes the way we view a situation. This segment allows young people to learn about information that may influence an officer's behavior (radio call or other information) so that they can better understand law enforcement decisions. Youth are taught guidelines for safe encounters with police and learn about safe ways to report behavior that they believe is unfair.
Module 4: Bringing It All Together
Youth and law enforcement join to participate in a series of facilitated role play exercises allowing them to practice what they've learned. Participants talk about how different behavior from just one person in a scenario can alter the outcome.
Module 1: Facilitated Panel Discussion
A Panel of youth and Officers from the community in a facilitated conversation about their experiences in the community with participation from youth and law enforcement participants in the audience. The facilitator guides conversation about stereotypes that influence interactions between young people and police. panelists also discuss situations that can cause conflict between youth and officers as well as examples of positive interactions. panelists draw from their real-life experience, ensuring that the dialogue is relevant to the community. role play scenarios are used during the panel to help officers and young people understand what it feels like to the other side during some of these encounters and to talk about what would make interactions more positive.
Module 2: Small Group Discussions
Facilitated conversation with youth and officers from the panel audience to talk in depth about the issues raised in the panel. Participants explore challenges and discuss what they would like to see from each other and their peers.
Shared Meal: Youth and officers are seated together for lunch, which provides time for less formal conversations. The shared meal is an especially powerful time for officers and youth to get to know each other as individuals and to build connections that often last long after the event.
Module 3: Adolescent Development and Youth Trauma (Law Enforcement)
Module 3a: Think About it First (Youth)
Separate sessions for officers and youth address concepts that can directly affect each group's understanding of the other.
Law enforcement officers learn how teenage brain development, trauma and gender affect the way the teens make decisions and respond to authority. The session incorporates strategies to deescalate tense situations with young people.
The youth module explores different perspectives and the ways that the information we have shapes the way we view a situation. This segment allows young people to learn about information that may influence an officer's behavior (radio call or other information) so that they can better understand law enforcement decisions. Youth are taught guidelines for safe encounters with police and learn about safe ways to report behavior that they believe is unfair.
Module 4: Bringing It All Together
Youth and law enforcement join to participate in a series of facilitated role play exercises allowing them to practice what they've learned. Participants talk about how different behavior from just one person in a scenario can alter the outcome.
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