Technical Assistance

The SHIELD evidence-based curricula is developed by legal, health, and educational experts at Northeastern University School of Law and the University of California-San Diego. They are based upon consultations with personnel, qualitative interviews, and pilot trainings, as well as familiarity with the existing research base.

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Comprehensive Training and Capacity Building

1. Guiding planning, customization, adaptation, and creation of local trainings

2. Train-the-trainer services

3. Training implementation

4. Fidelity control

5. Mixed-methods evaluation

6. Econometric, cost-effectiveness, and epidemiological modeling

7. Research communication and translation

8. Community relations

9. “Champions” program to cultivate interdisciplinary law enforcement leaders