This class focuses on raising dispatch awareness of the hazardous affects of stress, how to recognize stress, how to cope with stress, and how to recognize compassion fatigue. This 2-day course focuses on the effects of domestic violence on the victim and the hazards that it creates for the responding officers. Other topics are as follows:

• The heart of the abuser

• Recognizing red-flags

• The batterer

• The victim

• Why do women stay

• Child callers

• Cultural differences

• Domestic violence and the badge