How Can I Help The 2013 Wisconsin State Law Enforcement Explorer Conference Succeed?
What is Law Enforcement Exploring, and why is it important?
Law Enforcement Exploring has flourished in the United States for almost 40 years. Nationally, over 33,000 Explorers and 8,425 adult volunteers participate in Law Enforcement Exploring. In Wisconsin alone, over 600 young men and women ages 14 to 21, who have an interest in learning more about careers in the field of Law Enforcement, are mentored by over 150 adult advisors.
Law Enforcement Exploring provides positive and meaningful real-world career experiences and leadership development opportunities for all teenagers and young adults interested in law enforcement.
Law Enforcement Exploring provides educational training programs for young adults on the purposes, mission, and objectives of law enforcement. The program provides career orientation experiences, leadership opportunities, and community service activities. The primary goals of the program are to help young adults choose a career path within law enforcement and to challenge them to become responsible citizens of their communities and the nation.
The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Explorer Advisors Association, Inc. (WLEEAA) has strived to help coordinate Law Enforcement Exploring programs throughout Wisconsin, the majority of which are managed by local law enforcement agencies. The goal being to help Explorer advisors improve Explorer’s self-confidence, provide leadership experience and social network development, provide fun and exciting “hands-on” career experiences, create community service opportunities, provide Explorers with college and career readiness preparation, and create team building opportunities
We want to do more, but we need your help!
In 2011, WLEEAA recognized that providing training and guidance for the advisors who mentor Explorers was not enough. We wanted to do more to further our organizational goals and purpose, chiefly “to further Law Enforcement Exploring and benefit the youth of Wisconsin.” To that end, in 2011 WLEEAA recognized the first ever Wisconsin Explorer of the Year and Advisor of the Year. In addition, WLEEAA awarded its first ever, academic scholarship to an Explorer working toward her Criminal Justice Degree at UW-Platteville. While we are proud of these efforts, we know that we can do more.
As stated above, there are over 600 young men and women involved in Law Enforcement Exploring throughout Wisconsin, as well as over 150 advisors. While opportunities for explorers to serve their communities are plentiful, the opportunities for the explorers to exercise the law enforcement skills they are trying to master are rare. Expositions, competitions, and opportunities for Explorers to compete against one another and demonstrate what they have learned do occur, but the locations of those events make travel for a single day event problematic for Explorers in most of the state. There is also a National Conference, held bi-annually, with the 2012 conference just having taken place in Fort Collins, CO, but again, logistics and cost make attending that event prohibitive.
The Wisconsin State Law Enforcement Explorer Conference
For these reasons, the members of WLEEAA have pledged to hold the first ever Wisconsin State Law Enforcement Explorer Conference. This event will be held at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI, on February 8-10, 2013, and provide an opportunity for all Wisconsin Law Enforcement Explorers to compete and learn with their fellow Explorers, while winning awards, trophies and scholarships. While WLEEAA is committed to this event, we also realize that we are facing some of the same problems these other events have, namely, making this event something that our Explorers can afford to attend.
The Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, Wisconsin School Resource officers, Association, Wisconsin Crime Prevention Practitioners Association, Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators, and the Waukesha County Deputy Sheriff’s Association are just a few of the organizations who have thrown their support behind Law Enforcement Exploring. We would like to add you to our list of supporters.
We have estimated that it will cost as much as $50,000.00 to run this event. And while Law Enforcement Explorers and Advisors enjoy tremendous support from their sponsoring police and sheriff’s departments, most posts must raise 100% of their funds themselves. So, our goal is to reduce the cost to the Explorers as much as possible.
If you are interested in helping us provide a great learning experience for the next generation of Wisconsin law enforcement, click here to learn how to become a sponsor.
Law Enforcement Exploring has flourished in the United States for almost 40 years. Nationally, over 33,000 Explorers and 8,425 adult volunteers participate in Law Enforcement Exploring. In Wisconsin alone, over 600 young men and women ages 14 to 21, who have an interest in learning more about careers in the field of Law Enforcement, are mentored by over 150 adult advisors.
Law Enforcement Exploring provides positive and meaningful real-world career experiences and leadership development opportunities for all teenagers and young adults interested in law enforcement.
Law Enforcement Exploring provides educational training programs for young adults on the purposes, mission, and objectives of law enforcement. The program provides career orientation experiences, leadership opportunities, and community service activities. The primary goals of the program are to help young adults choose a career path within law enforcement and to challenge them to become responsible citizens of their communities and the nation.
The Wisconsin Law Enforcement Explorer Advisors Association, Inc. (WLEEAA) has strived to help coordinate Law Enforcement Exploring programs throughout Wisconsin, the majority of which are managed by local law enforcement agencies. The goal being to help Explorer advisors improve Explorer’s self-confidence, provide leadership experience and social network development, provide fun and exciting “hands-on” career experiences, create community service opportunities, provide Explorers with college and career readiness preparation, and create team building opportunities
We want to do more, but we need your help!
In 2011, WLEEAA recognized that providing training and guidance for the advisors who mentor Explorers was not enough. We wanted to do more to further our organizational goals and purpose, chiefly “to further Law Enforcement Exploring and benefit the youth of Wisconsin.” To that end, in 2011 WLEEAA recognized the first ever Wisconsin Explorer of the Year and Advisor of the Year. In addition, WLEEAA awarded its first ever, academic scholarship to an Explorer working toward her Criminal Justice Degree at UW-Platteville. While we are proud of these efforts, we know that we can do more.
As stated above, there are over 600 young men and women involved in Law Enforcement Exploring throughout Wisconsin, as well as over 150 advisors. While opportunities for explorers to serve their communities are plentiful, the opportunities for the explorers to exercise the law enforcement skills they are trying to master are rare. Expositions, competitions, and opportunities for Explorers to compete against one another and demonstrate what they have learned do occur, but the locations of those events make travel for a single day event problematic for Explorers in most of the state. There is also a National Conference, held bi-annually, with the 2012 conference just having taken place in Fort Collins, CO, but again, logistics and cost make attending that event prohibitive.
The Wisconsin State Law Enforcement Explorer Conference
For these reasons, the members of WLEEAA have pledged to hold the first ever Wisconsin State Law Enforcement Explorer Conference. This event will be held at the Kalahari Resort in Wisconsin Dells, WI, on February 8-10, 2013, and provide an opportunity for all Wisconsin Law Enforcement Explorers to compete and learn with their fellow Explorers, while winning awards, trophies and scholarships. While WLEEAA is committed to this event, we also realize that we are facing some of the same problems these other events have, namely, making this event something that our Explorers can afford to attend.
The Wisconsin Chiefs of Police Association, Wisconsin School Resource officers, Association, Wisconsin Crime Prevention Practitioners Association, Wisconsin Association of Homicide Investigators, and the Waukesha County Deputy Sheriff’s Association are just a few of the organizations who have thrown their support behind Law Enforcement Exploring. We would like to add you to our list of supporters.
We have estimated that it will cost as much as $50,000.00 to run this event. And while Law Enforcement Explorers and Advisors enjoy tremendous support from their sponsoring police and sheriff’s departments, most posts must raise 100% of their funds themselves. So, our goal is to reduce the cost to the Explorers as much as possible.
If you are interested in helping us provide a great learning experience for the next generation of Wisconsin law enforcement, click here to learn how to become a sponsor.