This seminar is co-produced by the AELE and the IPICD.
Patrol and correctional officers frequently contact individuals with disabilities. Some are disabled as defined by the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA) or other statutes. Regarded as the second most important civil rights legislation to be passed, 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 seminar is designed to help public safety employees and municipalities minimize their liability, and presents the latest legal, scientific, and psychological research findings. Evidence-based proven practices and approaches are provided, so you can return to your agency and begin resolving potential liability issues through training, policy, and more.
PUBLIC SAFETY DISABILITY SPECIALIST™
The IPICD Public Safety Disability Specialist™ (PSDS) is exclusively designed for 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 the 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 that enables 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 agitated 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. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 61 million people in the United States living with a disability, roughly 1 in every 4 individuals (26%). Many people with whom law enforcement officers interact have disabilities!
To qualify for the IPICD PSDS, you must attend all 2.5 days (no exceptions).
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Attend instructor qualification breakout sessions needed for the PSDS. If you can attend only one training program in 2023, this is the one to mark on your calendar. Participants will receive separate informational materials in each instructor program. Because of time constraints, you may not be able to enroll in each instructor program.
PUBLIC SAFETY DISABILITY SPECIALIST™
The IPICD Public Safety Disability Specialist™ (PSDS) is exclusively designed for 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 the 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 that enables 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 agitated 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. Per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), there are 61 million people in the United States living with a disability, roughly 1 in every 4 individuals (26%). Many people with whom law enforcement officers interact have disabilities!
To qualify for the IPICD PSDS, you must attend all 2.5 days (no exceptions).
BREAKOUT SESSIONS
Attend instructor qualification breakout sessions needed for the PSDS. If you can attend only one training program in 2023, this is the one to mark on your calendar. Participants will receive separate informational materials in each instructor program. Because of time constraints, you may not be able to enroll in each instructor program.
Snapshot of Faculty and Topics
(more to be added)
Managing Individuals with Medical Appliances And/or Prosthetics; Wheelchair Instructor.
- A. David Berman, M.S.
Americans With Disability Act: The Basics
- James E. "Jeb" Brown, ESQ.
Contacting Special Needs Individuals: Proven & Evidence-Based Solutions; Service Animal Instructor; Wheelchair Instructor
- Michael Coleman
Managing The Hearing Impaired
- AELE Staff
Disability Definitions; Invisible and Visible Disabilities; Restraint Accommodations and Special Needs Individuals; Wheelchair Instructor; Competency-Based Assessments
- John G. Peters, Jr., Ph.D.
Engaging Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Custody
- Deputy Curtis Smith, M.B.A.
Vision Impairment Instructor
- TBA
Contacting and Managing Epileptic Individuals: Proven Practices
- TBA
- A. David Berman, M.S.
Americans With Disability Act: The Basics
- James E. "Jeb" Brown, ESQ.
Contacting Special Needs Individuals: Proven & Evidence-Based Solutions; Service Animal Instructor; Wheelchair Instructor
- Michael Coleman
Managing The Hearing Impaired
- AELE Staff
Disability Definitions; Invisible and Visible Disabilities; Restraint Accommodations and Special Needs Individuals; Wheelchair Instructor; Competency-Based Assessments
- John G. Peters, Jr., Ph.D.
Engaging Individuals with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Custody
- Deputy Curtis Smith, M.B.A.
Vision Impairment Instructor
- TBA
Contacting and Managing Epileptic Individuals: Proven Practices
- TBA
Trial schedules and other unplanned events may mandate substitute speakers with similar knowledge.
Seminar Materials
• Public Safety Disability Specialist handbook; Flash Drive with article reprints; Vision impairment training aids;
Wheelchair: Officers' Field Guide MiniBuk. Wi-Fi access will be provided in the meeting room.
• Upon successful completion of each IPICD instructor program, instructor certificate
• Upon successful completion of the seminar assessments, qualification certification as a Public Safety
Disability Specialist
• Each attendant will receive an AELE Certificate of Attendance
• This seminar does not qualify toward the AELE Certified Litigation Specialist designation.
Wheelchair: Officers' Field Guide MiniBuk. Wi-Fi access will be provided in the meeting room.
• Upon successful completion of each IPICD instructor program, instructor certificate
• Upon successful completion of the seminar assessments, qualification certification as a Public Safety
Disability Specialist
• Each attendant will receive an AELE Certificate of Attendance
• This seminar does not qualify toward the AELE Certified Litigation Specialist designation.
Seminar Tuition and Registration
$950 for the first person; $850 for each additional person from the same government agency or private employee (including the attorney for the entity). Includes coffee, pastries, and lunch on Monday and Tuesday. The last day, June 14, ends at Noon.
Hotel Information
The Orleans Hotel and Casino: 4500 W. Tropicana Boulevard, Las Vegas, NV, 89013; 800.675.3267. Group code: DSPF23C. Room reservations can also be booked through the Hotel's website at www.orleanscasino.com/groups Please note: Due to promotional pricing offers, rates could be lower if booked by phone or on an internal hotel site without the group code.
Room rates: $45 per night, plus resort fee and taxes. The deadline for using the AELE group code is May 12, 2023, so book now!
Room rates: $45 per night, plus resort fee and taxes. The deadline for using the AELE group code is May 12, 2023, so book now!
Registration Deadline & Cancellation Fee
May 12, 2023. Late registrants, please call: 800.763.2802. Cancellation fee of $300 if cancellation is made after May 26, 2023, for attendance in Las Vegas.