This session will cover current drug clothing, drug logos, designer drug identifiers, drug terms, alcohol trends and drug concealment methods and stash compartments, drug related music, groups, and logos. This session is unique due to the fact that it provides over 100 visual aids for attendees to hold and become familiar with. Finally, all attendees will learn about local Wisconsin and national retail locations where “your youth” are purchasing these various items and they are being sold and promoted every day.

This in-depth session covers the recent trend of marijuana concentrates, waxes and oils. This is quickly becoming the primary option for many drug users of all ages. The session will include information on: associated terms and logos, new paraphernalia, odors associated with the drug, signs and symptoms and the drug’s potency and appearance.

Take a caring and proactive approach to students who are expressing alarming and concerning behaviors. Learn the importance of developing a sound foundation for Behavioral Intervention Teams (BITs) including creating a multidisciplinary team made up of your organization’s key players. Discuss best practices as they relate to addressing threats, identifying pre-attack indicators, and stopping the pathway to violence.(Note: this information will be similar to the Pre-Conference Training on June 17th)

Human and sex trafficking has no boundaries and is impacting juveniles in schools throughout Wisconsin and the country. Review human trafficking terms, culture, recruitment processes, and techniques to effectively interview victims. Victim dynamics and available resources for victims will be explored. Mandatory reporting statutes in relation to human trafficking will also be discussed.

The Wausau Police Department and Marathon County Social Services are partnering to provide services specifically focused on mental health and trauma. The police department currently has a full-time therapist, two therapy dogs and a Crisis Response Team. In this session, participants will learn about these program successes as well as different tools to help respond effectively to individuals living with mental illness and provide mental health services to victims and families. Tips on how to create a successful therapy dog program in a police department will also be discussed.

On Wednesday, March 22, 2017, a male embroiled in a divorce dispute with his wife entered her place of employment, Marathon Savings Bank in Rothschild, WI, and opened fire with a handgun, killing two of her co-workers. The suspect then drove 1.3 miles to his wife’s attorney’s office in the City of Schofield and shot the attorney, killing her. During the response, the suspect fired a rifle from his apartment window, killing Detective Jason Weiland from the Everest Metro Police Department. This session will review the incident and how it impacted the school and overall community as well as safety measures taken at the school during the incident.

A media and social media crisis communications plan is just as vital as an emergency operations plan for schools. Having prepared and pre-approved messages can help provide parents and community members a sense of clarity and maintain calmness. Obtain tips on controlling the message your department or school is sending out is critical, particularly in the face of a crisis. Explore effective communication techniques and how to send out a positive message during difficult and even tragic situations.

As technology and mobile capabilities continue to evolve, juveniles at a younger age are becoming more sophisticated on what platforms to utilize for their digital communications. Never have apps been more popular to conceal risky messages, hide photos, promote deceitfulness, and encourage anonymity. Juveniles are not the only ones in on the action; as sexual predators have realized it’s much more effective to operate from behind the screen of a smartphone, as opposed to the steering wheel of a creepy looking panel-van. Even children who participate in innocent and carefree online activity on these apps are unware of their exposure to the potential dangers. This training session will explore some of these mobile apps, their capabilities, and how these means of communication are used to facilitate dangerous, and often, illegal activity.

This presentation will emphasize the importance of utilizing a trauma informed and multi-disciplinary approach from outcry through conclusion when working on child sexual abuse cases. Participants will gain an understanding of the important role school resource officers and school personnel play in this process. Skills to obtain minimal but important facts at the initial interview will be explored.

This session will review a case study on two juveniles who planned to bomb and shoot up their school, and how the plan was discovered by mental health professionals including the risk assessments conducted and information reported to law enforcement. This session will examine the excerpts from the suspects’ social media pages, conversations between them on social media, and writings and drawings in the suspects journals. Participants will take an in-depth look at the state of mind and planning stages of an active threat, obtain information on signs of mental illness in a juvenile and strategies to work with that juvenile. Applicable statutes that can be used and tips to work with medical providers, district attorney’s offices, schools and other agencies will also be reviewed.

Michele tells her personal story and recounts the lessons she learned on December 14, 2012 and in the aftermath of the Sandy Hook School tragedy. She shares the inspiring way she has chosen to help school communities improve school safety in honor of her daughter, Josephine, and memory of the other 19 children and six teachers lost on December 14, 2012. Michele’s perspective, as the mother of a special-needs child and former elementary school teacher, provides unique insight and inspiration for parents, administrators, school staff, emergency responders and community members who strive to make their schools safer.

This session will review the basics of online safety for children, with an emphasis on sexting information. Risks, safety techniques and tips to share with parents and community members to help mitigate risks, and reporting information will be shared. This safety information will be paired with a case study of a local sextortion case that started as sexting and became a federal sextortion case with potentially hundreds of victims. Officers will learn initial steps if an ICAC case is brought to their attention, and the importance of asking additional questions to find out if it's more than "just" sexting.

In this presentation, participants will be encouraged to explore how the "self" can play a key role in de-escalation and how the power of self awareness can mitigate concerns with a person who is in crisis or upset. In addition, participants will learn ways to explore common themes which can cause someone to feel upset and ways to influence the outcome one wishes to achieve. The concepts can be applicable to daily conversations and in crisis de-escalations.

W.A.T.C.H. is a student led coalition that currently consists of three teams that fall under the coalition including all of Winnebago County's 5 major school districts, law enforcement, child protective services/juvenile intake, REACH counseling, and many other community partners. The group is dedicated towards making change and increasing awareness of the three current focus areas, safe driving, social media and suicide prevention. Students identify priority projects to undertake with support from local partnering agencies.This session will review how to bring key stakeholders in protecting youth in community to the table to work together as a team and ways SROs can create these partnerships and involve students with the teams.

Students know more about the school than we ever will. If you have a student body that trusts the leadership and process, you will have a student body that will alert you to danger signs. Additionally, finding ways to encourage parent involvement and investment also goes a long way to towards the goals of the school. In this session, participants will obtain data that supports the safety factor of strong relationships in the school community. Learn how this trust and confidence not just from students but with staff, parents and the community can segue into relationships and prevention methodology.

A detailed discussion will take place outlining implementation of ALICE protocols into your school district including: sample letters to send home, ideas for student trainings, teacher training outlines, parent meeting information, discussion points, drills and conversations on holding a full school evacuation drill. Included also will be age appropriate tips for educating students grades 5K-12.

This training will increase knowledge, competence and awareness of LGBTQ students in your schools and communities. Through this training, participants will learn how to build trust and rapport with LGBTQ students in your school and community. Participants will be able improve mutual respect and understanding of the LGBTQ community. This training will able professionals to properly identify and respond to bullying, harassment, and hate crimes to those that identify LGBTQ. They will also be able to understand the varying terms and definitions that are used in the LGBTQ community. Participants will develop a network of reliable resources and be able to serve their LGBTQ students more effectively.

Law enforcement are constantly exposed to traumatic incidents and many times different stressors can develop. In this presentation, participants will learn about common stressors in law enforcement and ways to recognize them. Moreover, we will explore ways to combat these stressors and nurture our resiliency.

This training is designed for School Resource Officers. SRO’s equipped with SEL skills like empathy, self-awareness, relationship and communication skills can help to prevent issues in the schools, create better outcomes for students and improve long-term relationships between police and their communities. This workshop is designed to give information and strategies to develop their skills to work with students from a wide range of backgrounds.

Standard Response Protocol / Standard Reunification Method (SRP / SRM) has become the national standard; adopted by the Secret Service and Homeland Security as “best practice.” The proper implementation of the components have save time, money and lives. Lock-down, Lock-out, Evacuate, Shelter-in-Place and Hold in the Classroom have become common and shared lexicon amongst most K-12 systems. Knowing when and how to use each of the components will make for the safest, most efficient and least intrusive response to an event. Drill-planning will be addressed with best-practice concepts but will also allow freedom to adapt to your unique environment. Every school is different so every plan should be just a little different as well. You will receive the knowledge to create your comprehensive response plan with resources to help.

Max Schachter's son Alex was tragically killed during the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on February 14, 2018. Since his death, Max founded Safe Schools for Alex, a nonprofit organization whose mission is to promote school safety and develop a blueprint to make schools safe nationwide and was also appointed as a commissioner on the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. Max will tell his story and discuss the efforts taking place to keep children and teachers safe.

This session will provide an overview of digital evidence protocols when responding to technology-facilitated crimes. Information will also be shared regarding initial response to these incidents, including considerations for different parties involved, social media, evidence, and suggestions for non-law enforcement partners that may be involved, including school administrators and personnel.

This session on Trauma Response will prepare the participants for a basic response to physical trauma. The three priorities in an active-killer attack are: Stop the killing, stop the dying and start the healing. SRP and LEO armed response stops the killing. Reunification, counseling / therapy and unity start the emotional healing. Doctors and hospitals start the physical healing. The missing component is our ability to stop the dying. Tactical Combat Casualty Care has been used in combat for over ten years with unparalleled success. That same training can and should be brought to our law enforcement and our civilian staff. This session will train you on the proper application of a tourniquet, packing a wound with hemostatic products (blood-stoppers), pressure dressings, chest seals and treating `penetrating trauma. You will learn about extraction techniques, extraction tools and when to extract. You will receive all the information you need to build you own trauma bag / kit with resou

This presentation will bring attention to the victims of child sexual abuse images and videos. Learn about the path these files take from the moment they are taken, to their distribution through various online platforms, to the rescue of victims by law enforcement, to the impact on survivors. In this presentation, through case examples, you’ll learn about the CyberTipline, the nation’s reporting mechanism on the sexual exploitation of children for both the public and industry, as well as technology efforts to identify victims and reduce the proliferation of these files online. Youth-produced content, including sextortion, and prevention resources will be specifically addressed.

Wisconsin School Threat Assessment Protocol course is for school administrators, counselors, security personnel and SROs. This course will explain who should be part of the threat assessment team, the intent behind threat assessment tools, how to assess the risk level associated with a threat, and how to determine the appropriate response to a specific threat. Attendees will complete table top exercises and evaluate their own policies.

Bullying, school violence and lack of respect are pervasive problems within every community. The cause(s) are complicated and multi-dimensional. Solutions need to also be multi-dimensional. The COREMatters Project was piloted with this concept in mind and infuses a partnership approach between law enforcement and school personnel. This session will provide an overview of the project and curriculum and how it creates a safer and more effective learning environment for students.

In November 2017, international internet watch-dog agencies notified Sycamore Police Department of an 8-year-old victim being sexually exploited online who lives in Sycamore, IL. The case delved into the world of Live.Me, Tiny Chat, online chat rooms, and an 8-year-old's online sexual exploitation. The case involved numerous subpoenas, search warrants, local, state, and federal agencies, and counseling/recovery for the victim. This session will review the case and discuss investigative solutions to conduct online sexual exploitation cases and comparing IPv4 addresses to IPv6 addresses, what to ask from internet service providers in supboenas and search warrants, and how to work with other social service and law enforcement agencies to investigate these offenses.