Welcome to iCHAMPS
Kids & Cops Play & Learn
iCHAMPS: Improving Community Health & Model Police Services
About Us
Kids & Cops
Police officers & youth interact in fun activities & build positive relations.
Sports & Games
Police officers engage students during physical education classes, recess, & after school programs.
Healthy & Happy
Police officers & social workers teach skills that improve student's physical & social-emotional health.
Locations
Salt Lake City School District
- Glendale Middle School
- Northwest Middle School
- Bryant Middle School
- Jackson Elementary School
- Meadowlark Elementary School
- Riley Elementary School
- Rose ParkElementary School
- BachmanElementary School
- Mountain ViewElementary School
- WashingtonElementary School
- Edison Elementary School
- Franklin Elementary School
- Newman Elementary School
Salt Lake County
- Magna Library
- Kearns Library
- Youth Services School Based Programs
Salt Lake City Police Department
Program Specifics
iCHAMPS Overview
- iCHAMPS is a nonprofit organization with a mission to promote safe & healthy neighborhoods through youth development, positive community-law enforcement relations, & collaborative partnerships.
- To achieve the mission, iCHAMPS provides three main services:
- Youth development
- Professional development training
- Research & evaluation.
iCHAMPS Board, Admin, Staff
- Board is made up of professionals with backgrounds in law enforcement, public & higher education, adolescent development, criminal, juvenile & social justice, & finance.
- Administrator is a research-practitioner in criminal, juvenile & social justice.
- Staff are made up of off-duty police officers & youth workers who are trained in best practices on improving prosocial behaviors.
iCHAMPS Outcomes
- Increase social-emotional skills & prosocial behaviors
- Prevent drug use & violent behaviors
- Increase sense of belonging
- Increase positive community-police relations & legitimacy of police
iCHAMPS Services
- Youth Development:
- iCHAMPS teams of police officers & youth workers teach social emotional learning skills to elementary & middle school students during recess time, physical education classes, & out-of-school time programs.
- Professional Development
- iCHAMPS instructors provide law enforcement officers & social service/education professionals training on how to improve youth behavior and community relations.
- Research & Evaluation
- iCHAMPS researchers provide evaluation services to assess community, coordinate implementation efforts & test program effectiveness.
Skills Learned
- Youth
- Emotional self-regulation
- Interpersonal relations
- Problem-solving
- Healthy alternatives to drug use
- Resistance techniques to antisocial behaviors
- Professionals
- Best practices to prevent youth delinquency
- School-based law enforcement practices
- Evidence-based policing policies & practices
- Organizations
- Better understanding of clients
- Strengths & areas of improvement for quality improvement
- Effectiveness of services
Evidence-Based Programs
- 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
- 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