Location: Casa Central 1335 N California Ave. Chicago, IL 60622
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Participants will walk away from the workshop with a model for a collaborative approach to building a trauma informed police department.
Presenters will share their experience of partnering together to address trauma in this urban, immigrant community surrounded by Chicago. We will discuss how external partners of the department were able to get buy in from the department and officers to begin forming a trauma informed department. The team will walk participants through steps they took to lay the groundwork, build relationships, provide training, obtain data and establish partnerships to improve the health of the community and the police officers.
The workshop will demonstrate how this grassroots approach has ignited a spark both in the police department and in the community - creating a desire and willingness to become more trauma informed. Participants will leave feeling inspired and challenged to consider how they can use their sphere of influence to bring about positive change in their own communities.
This will be an interactive presentation where the attendees will be asked to participate in brainstorming and sharing ideas that could work/have worked in their own communities.
