Goals and Objectives
Our team hopes to accomplish many targets through the implementation of The Ethan Saylor Law Enforcement Training Program (ELTP). In this section of the grant, we will be listing and detailing these goals and their accompanying objectives. Our initial goal is to establish and develop an organization to give disability training to law enforcement officers. We hope to accomplish this goal through the following objectives: First, the team will establish and set-up our program’s head-courters in San Diego on the SDSU campus. Second, the team will higher experienced and trained professionals to launch the program as well as to train new instructors. These instructors will be recruited from both law enforcement agencies and graduates of the SDSU Rehabilitation counseling program. However, after our program expands beyond the city of San Diego, the program will recruit from other Rehabilitation Counseling programs in the newly appointed locations. Third, the ELTP will collaborate and seek guidance and leadership from the expert staff of the SDSU Rehabilitation Counseling Program.
As to our next goal, it will be basically to educate and train the instructors that will, in turn, be the trainers in different law enforcement agencies. Our objectives for this goal can be listed as follows: firstly, ELTP will collaborate with the University of Niagara to adopt their program’s curriculum. Secondly, educate trainers about the different types of disabilities, their levels, symptoms, and how to appropriately and swiftly deal with the situation without causing any harm to the party in question. Thirdly, educate police officers about the different laws about disabilities. Fourth, create manuals, Power Points, handouts and other educating tools that are available for trainers to reference and use later in their prospective agencies. Lastly, ELTP will use role-playing techniques to educate and further train the instructors in the different ways of making safe and respectful contact with people with disabilities.
Moreover, another goal we hope to achieve is to raise and inspire a sense of empathy and understanding in our trainers towards people with disabilities. We hope to do this through the following objectives: firstly, through raising awareness and educating our teachers about the different stigmatization and stereotyping that people with disabilities face on a daily basis. Secondly, through inviting individuals with various types of disabilities to be guest speakers and lecturers. We also encourage our trainers to invite these speakers to lecture in their perspective agencies to help law officers further understand and empathize with the difficulties that face people with disabilities on a daily basis.
Finally, our team hopes to improve the overall outcomes of police interactions with people with disabilities and lower the instances of verbal and physical abuse and avoidable misunderstandings. The team hopes to achieve this goal through the implementation of the following objectives: firstly, ELTP will create handouts to be carried by law officers for them to reference if called to be a first responder in a case involving a person with a disability. Secondly, the program will create a hotline for police officers to contact if in doubt about how to deal with a particular case. Thirdly, make sure to instruct officers in how to use the first person language to be respectful towards people with disabilities. Lastly, encourage instructors to ensure the enforcement of learned information in their agencies/departments as this will facilitate real output and service delivery according to our mandate.
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