30 Minute Consult with Donna Milgram, our Executive Director

Are women not applying to your department despite your best efforts? Are you concerned that women recruits are dropping out of your Academy?  Do you have other specific issues that you'd like to get an expert opinion on? IWITTS's Executive Director can help solve your problem. Now is your chance to have a half-hour of Ms. Milgram's undivided attention as she works to steer you and your department in the right direction. Ms. Milgram is the nation's leading expert on recruiting and retaining women police officers.  She has a wealth of resources at her fingertips ready to help you! Whether your department's issue is recruitment, retention, promotion or how to bring about institutional changes, Ms. Milgram is available to help you find the solution to your problems. Click here for more information.

Recruitment Action Plan

Donna Milgram can help you develop a specific action-plan to improve your department's recruitment and retention of women within the next six months.  Building on the successful best practices of our work with the Albuquerque, Tucson, Durham and Port of Seattle Police Departments, Ms. Milgram will help you jumpstart your own women and policing initiative. Ms. Milgram is experienced in working with many types and sizes of law enforcement agencies: municipal, state, federal, Port, County, small and large. 

The proof is in our numbers! (Percent female in the Academy before and after IWITTS services.)

• Albuquerque, New Mexico, Police Department (10 percent to 33 percent)
• Tucson, Arizona, Police Department (10 percent to 29 percent)
• Port of Seattle Police Department: (7 percent to 14 percent)
• Durham, North Carolina, Police Department (12 percent to 15 percent overall)

What our clients say about us:
"Donna Milgram helped make the Albuquerque Police Department the best department for women in the country. Her nuts and bolts approach translated into immediate results for the department." 
Chief Joseph Polisar, Garden Grove (California) Police Department

"IWITTS assisted TPD in developing a Women and Policing Career Fair that resulted in an increase of female recruits in the Academy from 10% to 30%. The number of minority recruits increased to nearly half of the class."  Captain Paul Hallums, Tucson Police Department

We'll conduct an assessment of your present recruitment practices and provide you with a written report full of recommendations for change.  The information for the assessment can be obtained via a phone interview (s), emails or on-site. 

Our recommendations will have a range of options to ensure that the plan works best for your department. We can present the findings of the report via a phone or video conference call, or on-site to the key members of your department. We can also facilitate a brainstorming session on implementation of the recommendations/strategies.

Click here to read Ms. Milgram's article on Recruitment in Police Chief Magazine. 

Schedule a time to talk with Donna Milgram click here

Climate Survey of Your Department

Are there problems in your department you wish you could have stopped from happening?  Our LEAAT is a police specific survey tool designed by IWITTS under a National Institute of Justice grant that assists management in recognizing problems before they become complaints or lawsuits and provides information that will assist departments in taking action to improve the workplace. And now, our executive director, Donna Milgram will analyze your department's anonymous survey data, report her findings and make recommendations.

The Survey is designed to be administered to female and male officers of all ranks, recruits in the Training Academy, and civilians. We would administer only the sections of the survey your Department needs information on.  Sections include 1) Work Environment - General; 2) Mentoring and Support; 3) Promotion; 4) Health and Safety; 5) Family; 6) Harassment/Discrimination; 7) Reporting Sexual Harassment; 8) Sexual Harassment Training; 9) Leadership; and 10) Personnel Policies.

For more information on our LEEAT tools click here.

Schedule a time to talk with Donna Milgram click here.

Institutional Assessment of the Work Environment - Administration and Analysis of our Law Enforcement Environmental Assessment Tool (LEAAT)

Would you like to analyze your Department's statistical data to identify barriers to female officers and to pinpoint problem areas as well as to validate what's already working? The institutional instruments of the LEEAT will assist in reviewing your Department's practices (rather than perceptions of individual officers via a survey). Our executive director, Donna Milgram will analyze your institutional data, report her findings and make recommendations in the area of your department's needs. Topics that could be covered include Recruitment & Selection, Training Academy, Sexual Harassment, Promotion, Childcare, Pregnancy and Uniforms & Equipment. Human resources data, past complaints, and policies and procedures would be reviewed. Key individuals would be interviewed on-site. 

For more information on our LEEAT tools click here. 

To see a sample institutional tool on sexual harassment click here.

Schedule a time to talk with Donna Milgram click here.

Sexual Harassment Prevention Training and Gender Integration Training

Most sexual harassment training programs available in the marketplace are not effective in a police environment - they depict women in office settings and scenarios that bear no resemblance to a police emergency response environment. National IWITTS's police-specific sexual harassment training for supervisors uses police scenarios, police case studies, and court cases from police departments, and utilizes case studies, small groups, video scenarios and role-plays. Chain-of-command, fraternization, and light-duty pregnancy policy are incorporated into the training, which has an emphasis on hostile work environment. Training includes Pre- and Post-Tests.  Participants will learn how to: identify and prevent sexual harassment and effectively manage sexual harassment problems using your own Department's policies.

"IWITTS's police specific sexual harassment training and hands-on case study approach is the best I've seen."
             - Dr. Charles Tiffin, Durham (North Carolina) Police Department

Click here to see a sample sexual harassment training agenda and past evaluations.

Click here to see a sample Gender Integration Agenda.

Schedule a time to talk with Donna Milgram click here

Let Us Create a Women in Policing Section and Write Female Role Model Biographies for Your Department's Web site

Would you like to post role model biographies of your female officers on your department's recruitment Web pages, but you still haven't gotten beyond the idea stage? Or would you like a full Women in Policing section on your department's Web site? Our experienced team of writers can do this with a short turnaround time. We developed the WomenTech sections of three community college Web sites so we already have the templates, interview questions and even a role-model database. Don't wait, contact Donna Milgram click here and go live with women's content for your Web site soon!

For more information on how we've provided this service at the community college level, including the URLs for WomenTech Web sites we've already done, click here.