For several years school liaison officers, their supervisors, school principals and other administrators, have been coming together annually in Mt. Pleasant Michigan to attend the Schools, Educators, Police Liaison Association (SEPLA) Conference. This conference provides 3 days of essential training. This program provides professional instruction expressly designed to help schools, law enforcement agencies and communities learn to work together and gain expertise in the area of implementing and managing school liaison programs. Through the years the SELPA advisory council has worked diligently to develop an exceptional program planned around current issues and challenges faced by schools and communities of all sizes. This was originally a two-year program. In recent years, the advisory committee has responded to the need to refresh the set of courses each year in order to meet the changing needs of all law enforcement and school officials involved in school liaison programs. Therefore, whether participants are experienced or new to the school liaison program, the line-up of topics and the high caliber of speakers will justify returning every year for ongoing training. For several years there has been an apparent need for an association that would become a resource center for information that can be used by all members that are aligned in finding solutions of youth problems that can be found at home or at school, without losing track of educating all who have contact with our children.
