{"id":26144,"date":"2017-01-12T19:24:59","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:24:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26144"},"modified":"2017-01-12T19:24:59","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T00:24:59","slug":"enhancing-police-interactions-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26144","title":{"rendered":"Enhancing Police Interactions with the Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Community Workshop<\/h1>\n<p><strong>A training program to help Allentown residents and the Allentown Police Department strengthen their relationships<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Together Police &amp; Residents will do the following:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Learn about the power of personal stories from community members and police to gain insight into their experiences<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Recognize triggers and other obstacles that have elsewhere traditionally prevented building relationships with community members<\/li>\n<li>Listen for and respect the emotional content in what community members communicate<\/li>\n<li>Acquire a toolbox of ways to improve interpersonal communication by decreasing defensiveness, with particular attention to tone of voice and body language<\/li>\n<li>Help enhance safety in Allentown<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Session 1<\/strong>: January 17, 2017 at the Allentown Public Library (lower level)<\/p>\n<p><em>Address:<\/em> 1210 Hamilton St. (6pm-9pm)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Session 2: <\/strong>January 24, 2017 at Sacred Heart Hospital (Conference Center 2<sup>nd<\/sup> floor)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <em>Address:<\/em> 421 Chew St. (6pm-9pm)<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>*****Refreshments will be served<\/em><\/strong><strong>*****<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>To register please contact Sheila Alvarado at 610-433-5703 ext. 3105 or email salvarado@caclv.org<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><u>SPACE IS LIMITED.\u00a0 Advanced registration is required.<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><strong><em><u>No Cost to Attend!<\/u><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Community Workshop A training program to help Allentown residents and the Allentown Police Department strengthen their relationships Together Police &amp; Residents will do the following: Learn about the power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=26144\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enhancing Police Interactions with the Community<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26146,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/APD-Outreach.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}