Deflection Training for Law Enforcement – The Basics of Addiction and Recovery

Deflection Training for Law Enforcement – The Basics of Addiction and Recovery

Target Audience:

Priority seating for all law enforcement (police, sheriff), first responders (EMS/Fire), and those working as part of an arrest diversion team in any form. 

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Training Location:

Chemeketa Brooks Regional Training Center, Bldg. #1 / Rooms 105-106, 4910 Brooklake Rd. NE, Salem OR 97305 

Instructor:

Jac A. Charlier, MPA, Executive Director, TASC’s Center for Health and Justice (CHJ) Executive Director, Police, Treatment, and Community Collaborative (PTACC)

Mariel S. Hufnagel – MPA, CNP, CPRS — Executive Director of CASA of Union County

Brief Overview:

The Deflection training session for Law Enforcement includes the following topics:

• The basics of addiction (not drug use) understood within the context of the purpose and practice of law enforcement deflection
• Medication-Assisted Recovery/Treatment – How medications for opioids are not “substituting one drug for another”
•  Drug treatment: What it is and how it works
• Understanding that recovery from drug use does happen and what that can look like over time
• Criminogenic Risk-Need – How addressing addiction and other issues people face can reduce crime

• Understand addiction as a chronic, relapsing disease of the brain
• Know the purpose and value of the use of medications for addressing opioid use disorder
• Explain the implications of addiction for deflection encounters
• State the importance of SUD treatment as part of a deflection strategy to reduce crime and promote an individual’s well-being
• Understand that recovery from addiction is possible and what it looks like
• Describe how deflection interrupts the linkage between addiction (drug use) and crime
• State the importance in deflection of avoiding, reducing, and addressing SUD stigma as a barrier to accessing treatment 

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Attire:

Business Casual

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Parking Information:

Available.