Operation 2 Save Lives & QRT National instructors spent Monday and Tuesday of this week training law enforcement partners in several counties in West Virginia, educating seventy law enforcement responders on the impact of trauma on their service to the community.
O2SL and QRT National’s Trauma-Informed Care Training expert, Edward Jacoubs, and Director of Operations, Daniel Meloy, spent the past two days with leaders and officers from nine police departments alongside partner Beth Bailey, Project Director of the Rural Health Opioid Program, Community Connections, Inc., based in Princeton, West Virginia.
Director Bailey oversees the Quick Response Teams (QRT) in this region, made up of law enforcement professionals and mental health and recovery community professionals in Mercer, McDowell, and Wyoming counties.
Jacoubs, M.S.W., who has the past 42 years of experience in the juvenile justice and forensic mental health field, led the two-day training alongside Director of Operations Meloy, working with West Virginia’s dedicated law enforcement professionals discussing trauma impact areas including;
- the meaning and relationship of stress, PTSD, harm reduction, and addiction with trauma
- implications of trauma for law enforcement officers
- understanding Adverse Childhood experiences
- law enforcement’s response to children exposed to violence, trauma
- Tactical Breathing as a tool for law enforcement
- Vicarious trauma for law enforcement
O2SL and QRT National’s Meloy has been working with QRT teams and Director Bailey for the past several years, bringing public safety and public health together in addressing the opioid crisis, substance use, and related behavioral health issues. O2SL and QRT National provide diverse training to public safety and their behavioral health, community partners who are collaborating to address their community, social health issues.
For more information on O2SL and QRT National go to, www.o2sl.com