STC Training Courses - The Regional Training Center

Recognizing Implicit Bias

Recognizing Implicit Bias is made up of student-centered learning activities that allow attendees to safely understand their own biases with a scientific approach. Students learn in a safe environment with exercises that reveal deep personal preferences (biases) on things that are not at all controversial.

Digital Footprint

Knowing the benefits and risks of your digital footprint is vital to protecting your personal and professional reputation as well as officer and family safety.

De-escalation & Mindful Breathing

What tools or skills do you have that can be used to help de-escalate a situation? This is an opportunity to share some of your own expertise on what has worked for you as well as learn from others on what has worked for them. Some of the topics that will be discussed are; mirroring, reflective listening, body language, and empathy. Specific dialogue will be introduced and practiced, dealing with giving directives and stopping disruptive behavior.

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California Board of State and Community Corrections Standards and Training for Corrections (STC)

Implicit Bias and Community Policing

The Implicit Bias and Community Policing Course satisfies the CA Identity Profiling legislative mandate (PC 13519.4) and is made up of student-centered learning activities that allow attendees to understand their own biases using neural science-based research in a safe environment. The curriculum design avoids accusatory tones and focuses on objective facts revealed directly to each student by their own in-class discovery. Students learn in a safe environment with exercises that reveal deep personal preferences (biases) on things that are not at all controversial. It is a less confrontational way to see how people make decisions based on how they were socialized. Ultimately, students personally decide how they will apply the knowledge and skills learned that teach them to recognize their own implicit biases and how to mitigate them.

Course Length: Certified for 4 and 8-hour presentations
Prerequisites: None
Technical Level: N/A
Student Requirements: None
Recommended For: All public safety and public servant in any capacity

Digital Footprint

In the technology-based world in which we live, your digital persona speaks volumes about who you are. Knowing the benefits and risks of your digital footprint is vital to protecting your personal and professional reputation as well as officer and family safety. This course is will introduce students to the concept of a digital footprint, the benefits and risks associated with it, and how to formulate a plan to minimize and manage it.

This highly interactive course is designed to equip students with the knowledge and skills to recognize their own digital footprint, how it is created, managed and how to minimize it.

Course Length: 1 Day (8 hours)
Prerequisites: None
Technical Level: All technical levels
Student Requirements: None
Recommended For: First responders and supervisors who work in the public spotlight.

De-escalation & Mindful Breathing

This 8-hour course was specifically created to assist first responders before, during, and after intense and dynamic encounters to ensure enhanced decision-making, and the ability to rapidly return from the fight or flight response. The immediate benefits are apparent, but this course also equips students with the ability to improve long-term physical and emotional health.

Students will:

Apply Emotional Intelligence analysis to self and others in reality-based scenarios
Apply techniques to help de-escalate a violent encounter
Apply self-management techniques during a tactical event such as an active shooter
Apply Breathing techniques to remain calm and focused in high-stress situations
Read a suspect’s breathing pattern as cues to mindset

Course Length: 1 Day (8 hours)
Prerequisite: None
Technical Level: None
Student Requirements: None
Recommended For: Line level personnel and supervisors

Effective Counseling

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) requires commercial UAV pilots to pass the Aeronautical Knowledge Test for the Remote Pilot Airman (Part 107). This class was created for public safety to prepare them, and then provide them, with the required FAA test. This course begins online with content assembled by experts who are familiar with the FAA test material.

The online portion is self-paced but follows a progression of information with due dates to aid in completing the material in a timely manner. The class culminates with an in-classroom review just prior to taking the FAA test. The course is taught by FAA Certificated Flight Instructors to ensure the highest level of expertise. Successful graduates will be qualified under the FAA’s Part 107, to operate as a Remote Pilot in Command for standard operations.

Course Length: 30 days online / 1 day in classroom (8 hours)
Prerequisite: None
Student Requirements: None
Recommended For: For all personnel wanting to fly sUAS for their department, agency or commercially

Multi-Generational Workforce

The class consists of three days of intensive scenario-based, hands-on, and precision flight training designed to increase piloting skills and to provide students with the ability to operate in almost all sUAS environments. Students will be exposed to the equipment, tools, and techniques necessary to make their sUAS program fulfill the desired mission sets.

Students are guided to deeply examine all of the potential applications of unmanned aircraft and how that may fit at their respective agencies. This provides a crystal-clear understanding of the UAS agency objectives so that all efforts directly support effectively implementing the identified mission sets. The remainder of the curriculum is focused on precision flight and scenario-based exercises. Students fly inside and outside, on multiple aircraft types, using infrared, thermal, and self-illumination views. Guest speakers and prototype UAS equipment are regular additions to this very popular class. Students leave operationally ready with a deep understanding of UAS applications and capabilities.

Course Length: 3 days (24 hours)
Prerequisite: Operators or Basic Pilots Course, or equivalent training
Technical Level: Advanced sUAS Operators
StudentRequirements: FAA Part 107 license & Twenty (20) hours of logged flight time
Recommended For: sUAS Operators and Supervisors / Tactical Teams

Instructor Development Strategies

Small Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (sUAV) are powerful tools for first responders. However, nighttime operations add complexity that requires specific training and equipment. The FAA maintains that an “applicant must assure all required persons participating in the small unmanned aircraft operation have knowledge to recognize and overcome visual illusions caused by darkness, and understand physiological conditions which may degrade night vision.”

In this course, students identify night visual illusions and the physiological degradation occurring in darkness, then develop mitigating strategies. Students use state-of-the-art equipment to perform nighttime UAS operations couched in reality-based public safety mission sets.

Course Length: 2 days (16 hours total)
Prerequisite: Operators or Basic Pilots Course, or equivalent training
Student Requirements: FAA 107 License
Technical Level: UAS Operators and Supervisors
Recommended For: sUAS Operators and Supervisors / SWAT & Tactical Teams

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