Ohio School Resource Officers Association & the Franklin County Sheriffs Office presents:
Operation: Street Smart
Gang & Drug Education
DATES/LOCATIONS:
Monday, October 20, 2008- Reynoldsburg PD
7240 East Main Street, Reynoldsburg OH 43068 (near Columbus)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008-Dublin Division of Police (training rm.)
6565 Commerce Parkway, Dublin OH 43017 (near columbus)
General Information for all locations
In 2008, the Operation Street Smart program will include both Drug and Gang Education components. The Franklin County Sheriff’s Office created Operation: Street Smart in July 2002 as a way to take community oriented policing to a new level. Street Smart is a collaborative effort between the Franklin County Sheriff’s Office’s Special Investigations Unit (SIU) and the Community Relations Division. To date, the drug education component of Operation: Street Smart has been presented over 500 times to over 50,000 people throughout Ohio and the United States. In May 2004, the program received the F.B.I. Director’s Community Leadership Award.
The goal of the Drug Education portion of Street Smart is to provide current and up-to-date narcotics information on trends, terminology, paraphernalia, and physiological effects to those individuals who deal with today’s youth on a daily basis. The Gang Education portion concentrates on recognizing gangs and gang activity in school communities, how these gangs affect children and what SROs and school administrators can do to combat these gang activities in their areas.
Presenters
This program is presented by two Franklin County
Sheriff’s Office Undercover Detectives and two Franklin
County Sheriff’s Office Deputies.
Who Should Attend
The target audience for Street Smart includes school resource officers, DARE officers, juvenile detectives, school administrators and school board members, teachers, and parents.
Agenda
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration
8:00 – 11:45 a.m. Session- Gang Education
11:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Lunch on own
12:30 – 4:00 p.m. Session- Drug Education
Cost:
Registration fee for this workshop is $40 which includes morning refreshments, all session materials and a one year membership (2008-2009) in the Ohio School Resource Officers Association. Please note that the class size will be held to the first 50 registrants.
Registration:
Online registration: CLICK HERE for any of the three sessions or
Download registration below, and fax or mail back:
CLICK HERE for October 20, 2008 Reynoldsburg PD
CLICK HERE for December 10, 2008 Dublin Division of Police
Ohio School Resource Officers Association, 6277 Riverside Drive, 2N, Dublin, OH 43017. Phone: 614-718-3210 Fax: 614-761-9509. Register online at www.osroa.org
One Day Curriculum
Examples of current designer street drugs such as XTC, AMT, 5-Meo-DMT, LSD, GHB, 1-4 Butanediol, Ketamine, and Khat will be presented. Franklin County Sheriff Deputies will escort the examples throughout the audience for hands on effect.
Current drug paraphernalia examples will be available to depict the ease in camouflaging drug use from adults. A strong emphasis is placed on the physiological effects of the drugs and indicators to look for. So-called “traditional” drugs such as marijuana, cocaine, crack, heroin, and methamphetamine are also covered extensively as teenagers still heavily abuse these drugs.
The Adult Gang Education portion of the program is designed to educate parents, teachers, social workers, community partners, and anyone with a nexus to children about current gang trends, terminology, culture, and media influences. Included is a history of gangs, a breakdown of the different types of gangs and threat groups and their criminal activities.
At the conclusion of the training program participants will be able to better identify gang activity in their schools and communities, and will be empowered to help combat this growing problem.
