1. Sacramento Regional Public Safety Training Center
Program Review Presentation
April 30th, 2014

2. Program Description
The Sacramento Regional Public Safety Training Center (SRPSTC) delivers “in-service” courses to fire, law, corrections, and probation personnel.
These courses provide “in-service training” that is developed and approved by the California State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFT), California Commission on Peace Officer’s Standards and Training (POST), California Standards and Training for Corrections (STC), and the National Wildfire Coordinating Group (NWCG).
These courses provide current public safety personnel with specialized training and education in their respective field of employment, in which they receive a certificate of completion and the ability to be eligible to take their department’s exams for advancement.
Brief Description of your program. Who are you? One Slide, 2 minutes

3. Benchmarks 6 Year Reflection
ARC’s overall success rate for the entire college was 70.3% for females and 71.04% for males.
The Public Safety Center (PSTC) success rate was 98.71% for females and % for males, giving the PSTC a positive difference of over 28%.
Success rate for all age groups was also higher at the PSTC when compared to ARC’s overall numbers.
Average success rate of all age groups at ARC was 71.65% vs % at the PSTC.
In ARC’s overall program the unduplicated count was -11.2% while in the Fire program it was down -17.8% during the same time period.

4. Program -- Strengths While several strengths exist, standouts include:
Having strong partnerships with local, state, and federal agencies.
Bring forward ideas and concerns on professional and educational issues to our Fire & Law Advisory Committees.
Being recognized statewide, as having a good quality and accountable Public Safety program.
Working to ensure that our curriculum is kept current, with respect to the changes that occur in the Public Safety environment.

5. Program -- Challenges
The program faces the challenge of needing more time to keep- up with the demands of our curriculum process, which are continuously being developed, changed, updated, and revised. Currently, in the Fire program there are 127 and 139 pieces of curriculum between Law, Corrections, and Probation.
The program faces the challenge of having students that do not show-up for classes that their agency has requested we hold them a spot. Unfortunately, at the beginning of the class there is not adequate time available to call in any of the students off of the wait list, due to shift trades.
The program faces the challenge of gaining back the in-service Fire student's trust in that we’ll not cancel a class, just because we don’t have the minimum number of 25 students to run the course.

6. Planning Implications
To increase our PSTC by one full-time individual, which would provide the needed back-up assistance to the various assignments, responsibilities, and special projects in areas like curriculum and student learning outcomes.
To reduce the number of agency requests to only holding 2 spots in our registration process versus 10-12, which in turn would help us from losing no more than 2 spots due to no shows.
To reduce the minimum number of students needed to run a Fire course down to 17 or 18 if necessary and also to begin with a couple of good strong Fire Officer courses as a start and see how well they’re attended.