Training

iCHAMPS offers four types of training:

Leadership & Promotion Training for law enforcement officers, educators, and social service professionals.
Mental Health Training for Youth provides best practices when working with adolescents with mental health conditions in educational and juvenile justice settings.
School-Based Law Enforcement Training distinguish roles of law enforcement officers & school administrators when addressing student misconduct.
Community-Oriented, Problem-Solving (COPS) policing & Procedural Justice (PJ) practices improve law enforcement-community relations & increase community prosocial behavior.

Program Specifics

Professional Development
- iCHAMPS instructors provide law enforcement officers & educators training on how to improve youth behavior and community relations
Professionals
- Best practices to prevent youth delinquency
- Mental health conditions and interventions
- School-based law enforcement practices
- Evidence-based policing policies & practices
Outcomes
- Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities (RED) in the Juvenile Justice System
- Reduce School-to-Prison Pipeline (STPP)
- Reduce Crime and Delinquency in Communities

(OJJDP RED) Life Skills Training (LST) has been found to prevent or reduce:
- Violent behaviors
- Tobacco, alcohol, marijuana & illegal drug use
- Delinquent behaviors
- HIV risky behaviors
- Risky driving
(OJJDP GRP) Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) has been found to:
- Increase social-emotional learning skills (emotional self-regulation, interpersonal skills, & problem-solving)
- Improve academic achievement (reading, writing & math)
- Reduce conduct problems & ADHD/depressive symptoms
(Pulling Levers) Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) has been found to:
- Increase social-emotional learning skills (emotional self-regulation, interpersonal skills, & problem-solving)
- Improve academic achievement (reading, writing & math)
- Reduce conduct problems & ADHD/depressive symptoms
(Public Health Model) Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies (PATHS) has been found to:
- Increase social-emotional learning skills (emotional self-regulation, interpersonal skills, & problem-solving)
- Improve academic achievement (reading, writing & math)
- Reduce conduct problems & ADHD/depressive symptoms