Patrol and correctional officers frequently contact individuals with disabilities. Some meet the criteria for “disabled” per the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) or other statutes. Regarded by many people as the second most important civil rights legislation passed by Congress, the ADA requires governmental agencies to conduct specific employee training or they will be in violation of federal law. Administrators, officers, and others are often unaware of how Title II of the ADA impacts them, impacts governmental agencies and their employees who interact with disabled individuals. This program helps public safety employees and municipalities minimize their liability, and presents the latest legal, scientific, and psychological research findings. Through evidence-based proven practices and solutions you can help your agency and begin resolving potential liability issues through training, policy, and more.
IPICD PUBLIC SAFETY DISABILITY SPECIALIST™
The IPICD exclusive Public Safety Disability Specialist™ (PSDS) program focuses on educating and training public safety employees to legally and safely contact disabled individuals covered by the ADA. Similar, but unlike the ADA Coordinator who must understand counter height, slope of ramps, architectural design, etc. per ADA, the PSDS focuses primarily on Title II of the ADA, its amendments, and how these impact public safety employers and personnel. This is a one-of-a-kind certification enabling you to increase public safety credibility, accountability, public trust, and assist with high-liability issues.
The PSDS qualification is a must, if you testify as an expert witness and/or if your agency staff train personnel about excited delirium, ACE, mental health, vision-impaired and/or service animal contacts, firearms, defensive tactics, search and seizure, restraints, and similar transactions. Statistically, many people who are in a state of excited delirium or Agitated Chaotic Event™ (ACE) are disabled per the ADA definition, and therefore your employer must train its personnel about disability issues. Plaintiff attorneys often claim “failure to train” about ADA in their civil rights complaint, and often win because public safety agencies failed to conduct such training. In 2010, one in five people in the United States had a disability (56.7 million individuals), and that number is rapidly growing. Many people in a state of excited delirium or ACE also have disabilities!
Lessons include information on many topics including:
IPICD PUBLIC SAFETY DISABILITY SPECIALIST™
The IPICD exclusive Public Safety Disability Specialist™ (PSDS) program focuses on educating and training public safety employees to legally and safely contact disabled individuals covered by the ADA. Similar, but unlike the ADA Coordinator who must understand counter height, slope of ramps, architectural design, etc. per ADA, the PSDS focuses primarily on Title II of the ADA, its amendments, and how these impact public safety employers and personnel. This is a one-of-a-kind certification enabling you to increase public safety credibility, accountability, public trust, and assist with high-liability issues.
The PSDS qualification is a must, if you testify as an expert witness and/or if your agency staff train personnel about excited delirium, ACE, mental health, vision-impaired and/or service animal contacts, firearms, defensive tactics, search and seizure, restraints, and similar transactions. Statistically, many people who are in a state of excited delirium or Agitated Chaotic Event™ (ACE) are disabled per the ADA definition, and therefore your employer must train its personnel about disability issues. Plaintiff attorneys often claim “failure to train” about ADA in their civil rights complaint, and often win because public safety agencies failed to conduct such training. In 2010, one in five people in the United States had a disability (56.7 million individuals), and that number is rapidly growing. Many people in a state of excited delirium or ACE also have disabilities!
Lessons include information on many topics including:
- Disability Defined: ADA vs. Social Security vs. State Statutes
- Civil Rights Violations: Americans with Disabilities Act and Excited Delirium & ACE
- ADA Titles I, II, III: Impact on Governmental Entities and Public Safety
- ADA in a Jail Setting and its Impact on Jail Classification
- Autism: Identification, approaches, and hands-on intervention
- Adding ADA to current Training Programs (defensive tactics, restraint, transport, initial contact, etc.)
- ADA issues when designing classroom and virtual training
- Making your website ADA compliant
- Searching and Processing Transgender and Transsexual people (may be disabilities)
- Service Animals: Definition, Rights, Responding to Complaints and Avoiding Litigation
- Evidence-Based Proven Practices vs. Best Practices (one lacks credibility)
- Updates: Excited Delirium & Agitated Chaotic Events™ (ACE)
- Updates: Legal Issues focusing on Arrest-Related and In-Custody Deaths
- Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD): How it causes Excited Delirium & ACE
- Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI): How it causes Excited Delirium & ACE
- Instructor Certification: Vision Impairment
- Instructor Certification: Service Animals (complaints; owner arrest issues; safety; etc.)
- Instructor Certification: Autism Awareness and Intervention Strategies
- Instructor Certification: Wheelchair (must also take Searching Individuals Instructor Certification)
- Instructor Certification: Searching Individuals wearing Medical Appliances/Prosthetics
- Video Recordings: Do not Jump to Conclusions
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