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Category 4: Officer Wellness
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This awardee has received supplemental funding. This award detail page includes information about both the original award and supplemental awards.
This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for training and technical assistance to organizations that OJJDP designates. The Supporting Heroes in Mental Health Foundational Training (SHIFT) Program offers training to ICAC task force members and other justice professionals exposed to child pornography to help them mitigate negative effects and trauma. The Innocent Justice Foundation's SHIFT program will continue to add new educational material to the website in order to make resources accessible to justice professionals worldwide on a 24/7 basis. This grant application specifically details the expansion of the Individual, Case Study and Managerial trainings for ICAC task force members and other exposed individuals. Additional trainings for judges, court personnel, mental health professionals and law enforcement leaders will be implemented. Family Support curriculum has been developed and will be offered. All trainings are evaluated with post-training reports, detailing the number of trainings, number of participants, pre- and post-test data and evaluations, and speaker and training evaluation form data. In addition, 6-month follow-up data will be collected to determine how many participants are implementing tools acquired from these training and resources. No portion of the budget will be used to conduct research. CA/NCF
This program furthers the Department's mission by providing grants and cooperative agreements for training and technical assistance to organizations that OJJDP designates.
The Innocent Justice Foundation will utilize these grant funds to offer training to Internet Crimes Against Children (ICAC) task force members and other justice professionals exposed to child pornography to help them mitigate negative effects and trauma. In addition, the Supporting Heroes In mental health Foundational Training (SHIFT) program will continue to develop and update educational material on their website in order to make resources accessible to justice professionals worldwide 24 hours a day.