{"id":61963,"date":"2021-11-08T16:26:53","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61963"},"modified":"2021-11-08T16:26:55","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:26:55","slug":"fort-hays-state-to-accept-national-de-escalation-center-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=61963","title":{"rendered":"Fort Hays State to accept National De-escalation Center grant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fort Hays State University will formally accept a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Community Oriented Policing Services. An on-campus ceremony is set for 4 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 23, in the Fischli-Wills Center for Student Success. U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, whose efforts proved invaluable in FHSU\u2019s effort to secure this grant, plans to attend the event. \u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This Community Policing Development Program grant will support\nthe expansion of programs offered by the Regional De-Escalation Training Center\nthat was established at FHSU in August of 2020. The center at FHSU is one of\nseveral in a national network of regional centers under the direction of the\nNational De-escalation Training Center (NDTC).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The training provided by Fort Hays State places the university\nat the forefront of this vital law enforcement training initiative. Dr. Tamara\nLynn, department chair and an associate professor, serves as president of the\nNDTC\u2019s Executive Council \u2013 responsible for coordinating all regional training\ncenters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis award will allow the regional training centers to provide\nadvanced de-escalation training to law enforcement across the U.S. at little to\nno cost,\u201d Dr. Lynn said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For more information, contact Scott Cason, FHSU chief communications\nofficer, at <a href=\"mailto:sacason@fhsu.edu\">sacason@fhsu.edu<\/a> or 785-628-4208.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By UNIVERSITY RELATIONS Fort Hays State University will formally accept a $1.25 million grant from the U.S. Department of Justice\u2019s Office of Community Oriented Policing&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11722],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-releases"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=61963"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61963\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61964,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61963\/revisions\/61964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=61963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=61963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=61963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}