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Memory and Listening
Skills
PAT247R
March 5, 2012
Aurora Police Department
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Member Tuition: None
Non Member Tuition: $100.00
Limit: 2 per Dept.
Mental Health First
Aid
PAT256R
April 9-10, 2012
Buffalo Grove Police
Department
April 11-12, 2012
Lemont Police Department
8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Member Tuition: None
Non Member Tuition: $35.00
Limit: 2 per Dept.
Spring 2012 In-Service Course Catalog
For a variety of reasons, listening and memory are very much misunderstood as learnable
skills. To see, to hear, and to remember seems like a simple formula, but really it is much
more complex. This 8 hour course will assist officers recall information, and improve their
memory and listening skills.
Systems introduced and practiced will first use mnemonics for object recall, and eventually
involve family and police related subject areas, such as names, license plates, and variable
numbers. General orders, elements of offenses and offenses will be included.
For anyone who as ever wanted to improve both their long term and short term memory, or
wants to be a better listener, research demonstrates that it is never too late to acquire some
new habits with systems that make it much easier.
Officers will be introduced to the following systems in a self taught, fun, interactive
environment by two experienced communications facilitators:
- Association systems
- Tab systems
- Linking systems
- Chunking systems
- Loci technique
Instructors are Jim Zalud, Communications consultant and Chief Pat Solar (ret.), Genoa P.D.
They currently are teaching a companion communication skills course known as "Cues &
Clues for Improving Communication".
Mental Health First Aid is designed to help officers understand someone who is developing
a mental health problem or who is experiencing a mental health crisis. Just as CPR training
helps a person without medical training assist an individual having a heart attack, Mental
Health First Aid training helps an officer assist someone experiencing a mental health crisis.
The National Council for Community Behavioral Healthcare’s is course is being taught
throughout the U.S. as a primary help model for professionals and the general public to
better understand and assist others with mental health issues. It will raise the bar for all first
responders to follow.
Studies have found that those who trained in Mental Health First Aid have greater
confidence in providing help to others.
Officers will learn:
- Potential risk factors and warning signs for a range of mental health problems, including:
depression, anxiety/trauma, psychosis and psychotic disorders, eating disorders, substance
use disorders, and self injury;
- A 5-step action plan encompassing the skills, resources and knowledge to assess the
situation, to select and implement appropriate interventions, and to help the individual in
crisis connect with appropriate professional care
- An understanding of the prevalence of various mental health disorders in the U.S. and the
need for reduced stigma in their communities
- Working knowledge of the appropriate professional, peer, social, and self help resources
available to help someone with a mental health problem treat, manage, and achieve recovery.
This course is taught through a special program provided by Linden Oaks at Edward
Hospital. Each student receives a comprehensive workbook as part of this program. It is
recommended as supportive for departments wishing to enhance their response to persons in
crisis, persons with mental illness or drug/alcohol dependencies. This program would also be
supportive of a Crisis Intervention Team (CIT.) initiative by any police department.
The instructors for this course have been trained National Council for Community
Behavioral Healthcare, and will include an experienced police officer, Barry Groesch,
Yorkville Police (ret.) and Doctor of Psychology Charla Waxman.
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