{"id":4647,"date":"2026-04-30T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/?p=4647"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T12:51:14","slug":"free-verbal-de-escalation-training-available-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/blog\/2026\/04\/30\/free-verbal-de-escalation-training-available-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Free Verbal De-escalation training available in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"modal-ready\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Purdue Police Department is offering free Verbal De-escalation training during the month of May.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cVerbal De-escalation\u201d is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to teach skills to help attendees learn to remain calm and react more effectively when confronted with anger and to try to reduce the chance of escalation to physical aggression. The training includes exercises involving body language\/posturing and empathetic verbal language. Verbal de-escalation skills can be helpful both personally and professionally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Microsoft Teams session:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Tuesday, May 19, 1:30-3:30 p.m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>In-person session:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Friday, May 29, 9:30-11:30 a.m., Stewart Center, room 320<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These are all duplicate sessions, so participants should only register for one. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To register for one of these sessions, contact Lt.&nbsp;Sarah&nbsp;Clark&nbsp;at&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:sclark32@purdue.edu\">sclark32@purdue.edu<\/a>. Please indicate the preferred session when registering.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The minimum age for participants is 18. Affiliation with Purdue is not required to register.<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Purdue Police Department is offering free Verbal De-escalation training during the month of May. \u201cVerbal De-escalation\u201d is a two-hour PowerPoint presentation. The objective is to teach skills to help attendees learn to remain calm and react more effectively when<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":4289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,45],"tags":[17,66,16,65],"location":[],"class_list":["post-4647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-and-community","category-public-safety","tag-campus-and-community","tag-pupd","tag-purdue-university-police-department","tag-verbal-de-escalation-training"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 00:11:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4647"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4670,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4647\/revisions\/4670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4647"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/operations\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=4647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}