Current Grant

Adaptation of the COPS office-sponsored, in-person training course, Preventing Problems by Promoting Positive Practices (P5), into an online, self-paced training course for the COPS learning portal. The P5 training institutionalizes community-policing principles and increases the use of research-based and promising practices by school resource officers (SROs) and school personnel. Additionally, the training advances the law enforcement and education-related roles of SROs in school and establishes a shared model for SRO-school administrator pairs to improve the school environment, address safety and discipline, build relationships with youth, facilitate youth engagement through a school problem-solving program, and ultimately prevent minor and violent crimes.