Training Course: Mendocino County/Round Valley Tribe Training and Technical Assistance Project
Mode of Delivery: Onsite Assistance
Training Provider: Fox Valley Technical College
Target Audience: Round Valley Tribe Community

Course Description: This project will provide on-site training and technical assistance to assist the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) with developing a more effective and efficient partnership with the Round Valley Tribe to address public safety issues and other community stakeholders in the Covelo, California region.  The on-site training and technical assistance visits will involve multiple types of stakeholders beyond tribal law enforcement to include tribal leaders, community leaders and other local law enforcement agencies.  The primary objective of this project is to achieve a level of collaboration for county, municipal and tribal law enforcement agencies that is not inhibited by barriers in communication and will promote best-practices in community policing.  FVTC will prepare a guidebook/toolkit based on the trainings and resulting efforts of the sheriff’s office, tribe and other community stakeholders that will be completed at the conclusion of the project.

For additional information on this course: http://www.fvtc.edu

Training Course: Native American Training Series Executive Leadership e-learning
Mode of Delivery: Web-based (Online)
Training Provider: Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute/Community Safety Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: This COPS Native American Training Series Executive Leadership e-learning program is designed to assist Native American law enforcement agencies with developing both current and future leaders within their organizations. Throughout the program a wide variety of leadership models and theories are presented in order to enlighten participants and enhance their learning experience.

For additional information on this course: http://www.umcpi.org

Training Course: Native American Training Series Phase I
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Native American Training Series contains fourteen separate training programs including seven designed for tribal policing agencies and seven community-based presentations. Phase I includes topics such as Domestic Violence, Graffiti, Community Policing Basics, Disorderly Youth, Problem Solving, Underage Drinking and Community Engagement. Additionally, the accompanying toolkit contains this Implementation Guide and ancillary tools to enhance both the learning experience and the actual utilization of the series. This Implementation Guide also contains background information on the program, survey results, and useful information to assist in the implementation of this training series.

For additional information on this course: http://www.umcpi.org

Training Course: Native American Training Series Phase II
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Native American Training Series contains fourteen separate training programs including seven designed for tribal policing agencies and seven community-based presentations. Phase II curriculum includes School Safety; Early Intervention Systems; School Crime Issues; School Resource Officers, Gangs and Bullying and Harassment in Schools. Additionally, the accompanying toolkit contains this Implementation Guide and ancillary tools to enhance both the learning experience and the actual utilization of the series. This Implementation Guide also contains background information on the program, survey results, and useful information to assist in the implementation of this training series.

For additional information on this course: http://www.umcpi.org

Training Course: Native American Training Series Phase III
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Upper Midwest Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Tribal Law Enforcement Executive Leadership course (NATS III) is designed for Native American police executives and their command personnel. The course, using interactive adult learning principles and peer-to-peer learning will prepare today’s tribal police leaders to address these challenges. The COPS Office materials selected for inclusion in this course, combined with cutting edge 21st Century leadership and management philosophies, models and best practices; have been adapted to be culturally acceptable to Native American leaders. Topics to be discussed: Executive Leadership, Leadership Skills, Traits and Accountability, Executive Leadership in Negative Culture, Leadership and Conflict Resolution, Team Leadership, Leading Systematic Change, Leading in a Community Policing Environment, Development of Personal Leadership Growth Plan, Development of Organizational Leadership Growth Plan.

For additional information on this course: http://www.umcpi.org

Training Course: Regional Collaboration to Embrace, Engage, and Sustain Tribal Community Policing Partnerships
Mode of Delivery: Regional Training and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Western Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Western Community Policing Institute (WCPI) will provide technical assistance and regional trainings that focuses on building effective and efficient collaborative partnerships throughout Indian Country to address the unique public safety threats to tribal communities and their neighboring jurisdictions. The training curricula will include understanding cultural diversity issues, identifying stakeholders, the need for regional collaboration, and how to develop effective memorandums of understandings and agreements. In addition, WCPI will develop a library of resources that will be available to assist tribes and other stakeholders in developing and sustaining regional community policing partnerships.

For additional information on this course: http://www.westernrcpi.com

Training Course: Tribal Inspired Leadership Training
Mode of Delivery: Regional Training and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Western Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Western Community Policing Institute (WCPI) WCPI has created a two-day training that will assist Tribal Leaders in improving the capacity of Tribal executive leaders to partner with relevant stakeholders, increase the awareness on the importance of culture of trust and accountability, using technology to support community policing efforts through the capture of data, increasing the capacity to develop and enhance mutual trust, increase the capacity to leverage community policing in responding to the effects of local economic distress on public safety, increase the capacity to address unique issues in a culturally sensitive and comprehensive community policing approach, and to increase the practice of community policing globally.

For additional information on this course: http://www.westernrcpi.com

Training Course: Tribal Methamphetamine Initiative Training and Technical Assistance
Mode of Delivery: Onsite and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Strategic Applications International
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: To assist the 2010 and 2011 Tribal Methamphetamine grantees with their projects to address methamphetamines, Strategic Applications International (SAI) will conduct onsite needs assessments, deliver a summits for grantees, and produce tribal meth action plans for each site. A tribal meth fellows program will be developed to serve as content experts and generate white papers on content specific best practices related to reducing the impact of meth as well as mentoring grantees. Grantees will receive training in the three pillars of community policing, how to develop their own needs assessments, mobilize key stakeholders and communities, and design a community- based participatory research model. Training and technical assistance deliverables will include the summit, a COPS Guidebook on Tribal Meth Best Practices, webinars and white papers, and an update to Methpedia.org.

For additional information on this course: http://www.methpedia.org

Training Course: Tribal Oriented Policing Strategies: A Community Policing Approach to Reducing Crime in Indian Country
Mode of Delivery: Classroom and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Fox Valley Technical College-Criminal Justice Center for Innovation
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: Tribal Oriented Policing Strategies: A Community Policing Approach to Reducing Crime in Indian Country has been a highly rated and successful program that was designed specifically for Indian Country by Native American community policing practitioners. Participants will learn proven problem solving techniques to reduce crime in their communities. This training will demonstrate how to strengthen relationships between law enforcement, tribal agencies and the community to improve quality of life and enhance community safety. Law enforcement and community members will explore methods to effectively identify underlying causes or conditions that lead to crime. Key topics include: elements of change, dynamics of group development, building partnerships, creative solutions to problems, identifying resources, overcoming barriers to working together, and community policing. This two-day training is highly interactive and based on adult learning. The TOPS Training is currently being offered to 2011 Tribal Resources Grant Program (TRGP) recipients. Non-grantee tribes may also have the opportunity to schedule the TOPS Training as funding permits. Training and Technical Assistance relevant to other community policing and specialized topics may be offered to grantees and non-grantees as funds permit.

For additional information on this course: http://www.fvtc.edu/TRGP

Training Course: Tribal Youth Partnerships for Public Safety
Mode of Delivery: Classroom
Training Provider: Western Community Policing Institute
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: The Tribal Youth Partnerships for Public Safety training is a 36 hour course to build and enhance youth-police partnerships in tribal agencies. WCPI offers both train-the-trainer and standard deliveries of the training in tribal communities. WCPI is also addressing the need to build and enhance executive leadership in tribal agencies. Through the development and delivery of a two-day Tribal Inspired Leadership Training course WCPI will build the leadership capacity of tribal law enforcement agencies.

For additional information on this course: http://www.westernrcpi.com

Training Course: Tribal Prescription Drug Endangered Children Training and Technical Assistance Program
Mode of Delivery: Onsite Training and Technical Assistance
Training Provider: Lamar Associates, LLC
Target Audience: Tribal and Alaskan Native Communities

Course Description: Pharmaceutical drug abuse in Indian Country has grown to become a significant public safety issue that has contributed to the increase in violent crime rates in Indian Country, devastated Native American families, endangered children, and created a strain on the limited resources available to tribal law enforcement and service programs.  In order to address this serious public safety concern, Lamar Associates, LLC (Lamar), and its project partners, the National Indian Child Welfare Association and the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators have been funded to develop the Tribal Prescription Drug Endangered Children Training and Technical Assistance Program.  Lamar and its partners will develop a training curricula and provide technical assistance that will: 1) increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies to serve the needs of drug endangered children and 2) increase the capacity of law enforcement agencies to build partnerships with public health, prevention, and treatment providers that will lead to coordinated community responses to prevent prescription drug diversion and abuse.  The training curriculum will be designed to acquaint the participants with: The Indian Child Welfare Act (25 U.S.C. 1901); civil and criminal jurisdiction in Indian Country; roles and responsibilities of service groups; types of reporting, cross-reporting, and information sharing; safety procedures for children, families, and responding personnel; accepted drug endangered children protocols; the national pharmaceutical drug assessments; the pharmaceutical impact in Indian Country including trends, signs of exposure in children, identification of drug user behavior and paraphernalia; identification drug contaminated environments; child risk assessment methodologies; community policing principles, problem-solving techniques, and strategic planning and collaboration with federal, state, private and tribal organizations.

For additional information on this course: http://lamarassociates.net/indian-country-training