Terra Goswick Email & Phone Number

United States

Aurora, Co

• Create and administer sustainable department physical and mental wellness programs while maintaining a high level of confidentiality regarding all incidents and contacts.• Provide wide-ranging employee support and resources to meet any emotional, psychological, and/or spiritual needs. • Coordinate administrative responsibilities, including the training and expansion of the Peer Support Team, the Trauma Response Team (TRT), and the Lethal Response Team. • Support the TRT Commander in coordinating the response to an employee death deemed either work or non-work related, including funeral planning and family support. • Serve as a liaison with the City Human Resources and Payroll Department to support employees with questions pertaining to FMLA, Leave Share Program, ADA accommodations, FPPA disability retirement, workers compensation, and issues related to injury or leave. • Proactively follow-up with employees to ensure resources have been provided and to identify additional needs or concerns.• Support employees and families involved in and affected by critical or traumatic incidents, including officer-involved shootings within the unit's policy, operational guidelines, and training.• Managed efforts while working in collaboration with psychological services to facilitate individualized care plans for employees, including those associated with the Reintegration and Resiliency Programs. • Serve as the department designee for the City of Aurora Addition Rehabilitation Services (CAARS) administration.• Coordinate emergency notification and hospital response procedures when department members or their families are affected by injury or long-term illness.• Initiate and lead wellness and resiliency training for employees, including in-service training, resiliency forums, new supervisor training, and policy/dispatch academies.

Aurora, Co

• Offered wide-ranging leadership through crisis management skills and the ability to make sound decisions under pressure while interpreting guidelines and laws.• Provided direction and leadership to other officers through the training of new officers to drive performance improvements.• Delivered exceptional levels of service while interacting with a diverse community, working to resolve issues and de-escalate stressful situations.• Led investigations of both criminal and non-criminal incidents, ensuring optimal results were achieved on behalf of the community and department. • Developed and reviewed reports and court documents to ensure all products were of high quality and integrity.• Completed several training courses to continue education, increase knowledge, and improve on-the-job performance.• Served as a valued member of the Crisis Intervention Team, always representing the police department in the most respectful manner.

Howard County, Md

• Offered wide-ranging leadership to a variety of situations requiring crisis management skills, the ability to make sound decisions under pressure while interpreting guidelines and laws, and multi-tasking skills.• Provided direction and leadership to subordinate officers by delivering training on position best practices to improve performance. • Delivered exceptional levels of service while answering calls for service, interacting with a diverse community, and resolving issues.• Led investigations of both criminal and non-criminal incidents while ensuring optimal results were achieved on behalf of the community and department.• Developed and reviewed reports and court documents to ensure all products were of high quality and integrity.• Served as a Crisis Intervention Team member, de-escalating stressful situations, and the DUI Traffic Enforcement and Analysis Team. • Held a key role as the lead investigator, functioning independently on multiple cases simultaneously and making independent judgments in making sound decisions in a high-stress environment.• Maintained effective, open lines of communication through multiple channels with various technical and non-technical audiences and all levels of leadership with the department. • Analyzed diverse situations and data to recommend and implement solutions in a timely, professional manner and prepared and reviewed a variety of reports.• Leveraged in-depth knowledge of various databases to correctly navigate and analyze data without instruction. • Followed all office policies and procedures while ensuring subordinate officers implemented the program appropriately.• Prepared factual written materials that demonstrated sound data management and wrote reports utilized by judges, attorneys, and the department's senior leadership. • Conducted liaison-related work as part of a multi-disciplinary team that included other detectives, social workers, state attorneys, doctors, and psychologists.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Criminal Justice

Master'S Degree, Forensic Science And Technology