ALERT

Less than a year ago, Stephanie Cooper started Autism Law Enforcement Response Training (ALERT), a nonprofit training program for police officers that provides officers with sensory kits designed to help autistic people. In that time, Cooper has trained more than 1,000 officers in four states. Now Cooper is taking her mission one step further through [...]

Stephanie Cooper, a former police officer and mother to a child with autism, created Autism Law Enforcement Response Training (ALERT) to help police officers interact with people with autism. Read the full version of Mom Creates Autism Law Enforcement Response Training for Police Officers.

As a former police officer and mother to a child on the autism spectrum, Stephanie Cooper knows how important it is for police officers to be able to recognize autism. To help ensure safer interactions between the police and people with autism, Cooper started Autism Law Enforcement Response Training (ALERT), a training program for police officers [...]