Our Training

WSP Chaplains have extensive training and are tasked at the highest level.  The following is not comprehensive, but provides an excellent view into our training.

• Police Chaplain Academy Training

  • LODD​

  • Next-of-kin notifications

  • Ceremonies and events

  • Equipment and protocols

  • Sensitivity and diversity

  • Stress Management and burnout

  • Confidentiality and legal liability

  • Ethics

  • Responding to a crisis

  • Substance abuse

  • Suicide

  • Police ride along and scene safety

  • Cremation and funeral home basics

  • Medical Examiner and Coroner basics

  • Interagency and hospital chaplain coordination

  • Forensic lab basics and needs of staff

  • New chaplain contact work and relationship development

  • Police and fire radio and communications basics

  • Chaplaining the next generation

  • Fire Chaplaincy

    • Personhood of the fire chaplain

    • Foundations of fire chaplaincy

    • Ministry to fire personnel

    • Chaplain safety and fire operations

    • Ministry to crisis victims

• Crisis Incident Stress Management (CISM)

  • Individual and group crisis intervention​

  • Advanced CISM techniques

  • Strategic response to crisis

  • Pastoral Care

  • Suicide prevention, intervention and postvention

• First Aid and CPR with additional training of select components of Emergency Casualty Care​​

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