Crisis Response Involving Veterans & Military Personnel at Tue, Feb 23, 2027 08:00 PST

Course Description

Hosted by the Santa Maria Police Department

Veterans in crisis often meet a police officer, a deputy, or a clinician before they ever meet a VA provider. How that first contact goes depends on whether the responder understands military culture, recognizes the mental health conditions common to veterans, and knows how to communicate with someone trained to react under threat.

This full-day course covers military and veteran culture, indicators of military service, PTSD, traumatic brain injury, and military sexual trauma, responder safety, and strategic communication skills. Participants practice through role play and simulator scenarios, and a veteran guest speaker shares what helped, and what made things worse, during their own crisis.

Who Should Attend

Law enforcement, fire, EMS, probation, dispatch, and other public safety personnel who respond to veterans and military members in crisis. Licensed clinicians who serve veterans or respond alongside law enforcement, including co-response, mobile crisis, VA, and county behavioral health clinicians, are also welcome.

Educational Objectives

At the end of this course, participants will be able to:

• Name the five types of military discharge and describe how each affects a veteran's eligibility for VA care.
• Identify four signs, symbols, or indicators of military service.
• Name three service-related conditions, PTSD, TBI, and military sexual trauma, and describe how each may present in a crisis.
• Apply at least three responder safety principles when approaching a veteran in crisis.
• Demonstrate at least four strategic communication skills with a veteran in crisis.
• Identify three regional resources available to veterans in crisis.

Instructor

Dave Weiner, MPsy. Retired Chief of Police and United States Air Force veteran with 33 years of combined military, law enforcement, and corporate security experience. Former Regional Chief of Police and Emergency Management, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, Long Beach. Master of Psychology. California POST certified instructor. Certified in Veterans Behavioral Health. Creator of VMET, the Veteran Mental Evaluation Team.

Guest speaker: a military veteran who shares lived experience with PTSD, TBI, or other mental health conditions.

Cost

$125 per person. There are no additional fees.

Refund and Cancellation Policy

• Full refund if cancelled at least 72 hours before the session.
• Fifty percent refund if cancelled between 24 and 72 hours before the session.
• No refund for cancellations inside 24 hours or for no-shows.
• Rescheduling is permitted once per session with at least 24 hours notice.
• If Secure Measures cancels or reschedules for any reason, participants may take a full refund or apply a credit to a future course.
• Approved refunds are issued within ten business days.
• To cancel, email dave@secure-measures.com.

Accommodations

Secure Measures, LLC complies with the Americans with Disabilities Act. To request an accommodation for special needs, email dave@secure-measures.com or call 310-507-1493 at least 14 days before the course date. Requests received later will be accommodated where practicable.

Grievances

Grievances may be submitted in writing to dave@secure-measures.com, or by mail to Secure Measures, LLC, 18375 Ventura Boulevard, #801, Tarzana, CA 91356. Receipt is acknowledged within five business days and a written response is provided within thirty calendar days. If the complainant is not satisfied with the resolution, the grievance may be escalated to the CAMFT CEPA Department.

POST and STC Credit

California POST Course #22328, with Perishable Skills Program credit in strategic communication. California STC Course #09845085.

CE Credit for Clinicians

Course meets the qualifications for 7.5 hours of continuing education credit for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and/or LEPs as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

Secure Measures, LLC is approved by the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (Provider #1033109) to sponsor continuing education for LMFTs, LCSWs, LPCCs, and LEPs. Secure Measures, LLC maintains responsibility for this program/course and its content.