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Peer Support Training
A four day, 32-hour program
Date & Time:
December 17th through 20th, 2024
8:00am - 4:00pm
Location:
Marshall University
Memorial Student Center
Room BE5
1608 5th Avenue
Huntington, WV 25755

The Police Benevolent Foundation (PBF) has partnered with LEAPS Training LLC, and Marshall University to offer a 4-day training course on peer support. This training will be provided only to Law Enforcement Officers and is limited to 30 participants. This training will be free to all participants.

Law enforcement is one of the most stressful occupations that exist. Each day, a law enforcement officer is faced with more stress than an average person faces in five years. The daily threat of death, the succession of one high stress event after another, the in-depth scrutiny of our actions by others, and the culture of denial we have created causes us to have issues no other occupation has. Our life expectancy is much shorter than average, our rate of alcohol and drug abuse is high, our suicide rate is high, and we have done very little to address these issues.

Peer Support is the best mechanism to remedy our failures in addressing the elephant in the room. Who knows more about a law enforcement officer's life than another officer? This thirty-two-hour course will train each attendee to "coach" fellow officers through the emotional and psychological issues they face daily.

Topics include:
  • responding to officer involved shootings and other high stress events
  • general job stress
  • suicide recognition and prevention
  • the recognition of mental disorders
  • family issues
  • line of duty deaths
  • and one-on-one 'coaching' of other officers
Protocols for creating or improving peer support teams will be discussed as well as policy and confidentiality/privilege.

Attendees must be law enforcement officers, dispatchers, chaplains, or behavioral health professionals who work with law enforcement. This is a very unique class developed by law enforcement for law enforcement. The personal benefits of this course and using it to help other officers is life-changing.

In-service credit will be offered.
Registration Limited to 30 Attendees
We currently have 14 confirmed attendees for this event - 16 seats remain available.

After registering, you will receive a registration confirmation email. It is important that you respond to this email and confirm your registration in order to ensure that we have seating reserved for you.
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If you will need to travel more than 100 miles to attend, the PBF is able to provide hotel accommodations.

After registering, please check your email and respond to the confirmation message. If you do not receive the email, please contact jblackburn@sspba.org to confirm. Thank you.