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Ohio Peace Officer Training Academy

Blue Courage Offers Support

4/12/2016
This course will enhance the capacity of our officers through education, practices, tools, and processes to serve with courage and honor. Blue Courage covers issues within our profession that cause erosion of our capacity to serve, and it also gives officers the tools to help combat that erosion. 
 
This two-day course, which is being offered in April, June, August, October, and December, was created by officers for officers. Some of the modules covered include: Police Culture, Nobility, Positive Psychology, and Health and Wellness. After successful completion of the course, officers will have the tools to become a better officer, worker, spouse, and parent. This course not only has the ability to help officers deal with the stress in our profession, it also will help in officers’ daily lives as well.
 
Blue Courage is about taking charge of the forces and circumstances that are powerful influences in our lives. The stress, pressures, and dark side of life that officers see all influence us to a high degree. Blue Courage will teach you to take charge of, manage, and control those influences. 
 
 Blue Courage is also about strengthening our “core.” In fitness strengthening, the core reinforces everything that flows from it. Our core is our heart, body, mind, and spirit -- those four dimensions are the source of all our power, strength, endurance, and ability to perform.
 
Visit the OPOTA catalog for more information and to register for this valuable course.