Connecting Cops and Kids: Strategies to Improve Police Interventions with Children and Families

Posted by on February 14, 2011

Audioconference to Explore Effective Police Interventions with Children and Families

City leaders are invited to register for a free, hour-long audioconference on opportunities for police officers to improve their safety and effectiveness on the job by working in new ways with children, teens, families, and other organizations that serve children. The audioconference will be held on Thurs., February 24, at 12:30 p.m. Eastern Time.

“Connecting Cops and Kids: Strategies to Improve Police Interventions with Children and Families” is sponsored by the YEF Institute and the Fred Rogers Company, with support from the U.S. Department of Justice Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. The audioconference will feature insights from the documentary video-based Connecting Cops & Kids training program that these partners are making available to police departments and social service agency partners nationwide beginning this spring.

No phone registrations can be accepted. At least one day prior to the audioconference, each registrant will receive an e-mail providing a toll-free, dial-in number.  Registration for the audioconference will close by the Wednesday before the call.  The application deadline for the training program is Feb. 21. For questions about the audioconference or training, please contact Michael Karpman at (202) 626-3072 or karpman@nlc.org.

» Register for the audioconference: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/BGQWLL7
» Read more in Nation’s Cities Weekly: http://www.nlc.org/articles/articleItems/NCW020711/copsandkidsaudioconf.aspx
» Download the application for the Cops & Kids training: http://www.nlc.org/articles/articleItems/NCW020711/copsandkidsaudioconf.aspx
» Learn more about the Cops & Kids program: http://www.cops-n-kids.org/