Justice Personnel Wellness/Mental Health

Upcoming Webinars

10 / 10 / 2023

Burnout and Resilience: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

Trauma is a given if you work in criminal justice, in suspects, defendants, victims, witnesses, and even colleagues. A better understanding of the effects of trauma and how to mitigate [...]

10 / 10 / 2023

Trauma-Informed Policing: What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

This presentation will offer law enforcement officers and first responders an education on trauma and trauma manifestations, along with practical tools to understand and manage traumatized individuals. We will discuss [...]

10 / 17 / 2023

Corrections Staff Wellness: A Team LIFT Approach

We must acknowledge that staff wellness in Corrections can be one of the heaviest burdens of them all, yet one of the most difficult challenges to overcome. We also must [...]

Tamara Lyn

10 / 19 / 2023

Supervisor as Coach: Lead Your Direct Reports to Their Own Solutions for Performance and Motivation Issues

Do your direct reports struggle to reclaim the drive that attracted them to law enforcement and public safety? Do they neglect the self-care that would keep them focused, physically fit, [...]

10 / 24 / 2023

Don’t Wait Until Retirement to Live a Good Life

Working in a public safety/justice career can lead to a very difficult and exhausting life, both at work and at home. Too often "I'll enjoy life when I retire" [...]

10 / 26 / 2023

Controlling Your Emotions Keeps YOU out of Jail

To learn to deal with anger, you need to recognize your anger chain. What is it that sets you off on your emotional spiral? Is it any surprise, anger is [...]

10 / 26 / 2023

Navigating Negativity: Strategies for Managing Trolls and Online Critics

Social media can be a place for both connection and conflict, and public service organizations are often the target of critical commentary online. While showing up to the virtual conversation [...]

10 / 31 / 2023

The Human in Humanity: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

The law enforcement profession is designed to serve and protect communities throughout this country. Men and women in uniform spend 20-30 years selflessly committing themselves to reduce crime, the fear [...]

11 / 02 / 2023

Ask Me Anything: about Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder and the Justice System

This webinar will present an opportunity for justice professionals to interact with a professor, clinician, and trainer who has spent over 20 years working with individuals on the Autism Spectrum. After [...]

Maria Valdovinos Olson

Karen Amendola

11 / 07 / 2023

Organizational Stress and Officer Wellness

Organizational stress generally refers to the organizational context in which officers work and is differentiated from operational stress (occupational dangers and exposure to risk). Examples of organizational stressors in policing [...]

Courtney

11 / 09 / 2023

Breaking the Bondage of Debt: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Do you have debt that’s holding you back in life? Do you feel that you’ll be hostage to the monthly car payment and credit card payments until you [...]

11 / 16 / 2023

Call to Action: Lifting Each Other Up to Rise Together

Over the past couple of years, I have noticed a huge shift in the attitudes of the amazing women of 911. We are valuing ourselves out loud, we began to champion [...]

11 / 30 / 2023

Why CIT? Unpacking Why Mental Health Crises are a Police Function and Likely Will Be for the Foreseeable Future

For some time now academics, practitioners, and advocates have debated whether to remove law enforcement from crisis responses altogether. For some, the debate has ventured into how to remove police [...]

12 / 07 / 2023

Building a Wellness Program from the Ground Up

Wellness programs are appearing more frequently in our public safety organizations. Agencies vary in culture, size, and resources which means implementing a wellness program is not “one size fits all.” [...]

12 / 12 / 2023

Self-Care for First Responders: Essential Strategies to Prevent Burnout and Enhance Performance

First responders are known for their courage and bravery in high-pressure situations. However, the demanding nature of their work can take a toll on their physical and emotional well-being, leading [...]

01 / 18 / 2024

Understanding Alzheimer’s and Dementia for First Responders

The Alzheimer’s disease epidemic continues to grow. More than 70% of people with dementia live at home, and as a first responder, it’s critical to be prepared to face [...]

01 / 23 / 2024

Overcoming Burnout: Finding Meaning and Purpose in Your Career and Life Again

Have you been feeling burned out? Overwhelmed? Tired? It's easy to go down this path with all we have going on within our profession right now. At the same time, [...]

01 / 25 / 2024

In It for the Long Haul: Combatting Compassion Fatigue and Enhancing Resiliency for Animal Welfare Professionals

The animal protection field is both incredibly rewarding and challenging. This course will discuss the causes and symptoms of compassion fatigue and provide a suite of skills for building and [...]

Rebecca Jameson

02 / 13 / 2024

The Overtime Trap: Four Steps to Break this Tedious Money Cycle

Are you stuck in the overtime trap? If you're a first responder, chances are you're caught up in this money pitfall and you might not even realize it. The livelihood [...]

Halcyon Frank

02 / 15 / 2024

Conquering Complacency

Complacency is a stealthy foe that can negatively impact safety and prevent us from taking action when needed. You will learn how to recognize warning signs of complacency in yourself [...]

Wendy Hummell

02 / 29 / 2024

Women’s Health and the Justice Workplace: The Relationship Between Rest, Stress and Hormones

At some point in our lives and careers, many of us have experienced feeling overwhelmed, fried, and exhausted. This is commonly referred to as burnout. This webinar will address the [...]

03 / 05 / 2024

Working with Survivors’ Need for Control

The need for control is often seen as a negative aspect of a person’s personality. However, having a sense of control is a vital aspect of an individual’s [...]

Tamara Glover

03 / 21 / 2024

Stop! Don’t Slime: Lessons in Debriefing for Criminal Justice Professionals

When most people hear the word slime they think of the gelatinous, sticky, gooey substance that has recently taken youth by storm; or maybe they feel a bit nostalgic and [...]

Lois James, PhD

03 / 26 / 2024

How to Manage Officer Fatigue and Improve Sleep: Experiment Results

Officer fatigue and sleep deficits are a growing concern. There is no shortage of advice and information about how people can improve the quality of their sleep…but little in [...]

José Ocaño

04 / 02 / 2024

Seven Practices to Live Better and Work Better

The average American worker spends at least one-third of their life at work. Research indicates that our experiences in the workplace have a direct impact on our mental, emotional, financial, [...]

Scott Medlin

04 / 25 / 2024

The 10-Code Mindset: Stay Alive and Thriving

While many in the criminal justice and law enforcement profession feel they have been called to serve their communities, most probably never anticipated all the ways they take the job [...]

05 / 14 / 2024

The Four Most Common Feelings of Trauma Survivors

In this age of neuro-science with focus on the physiological reaction of the brain and body to a trauma, recognition of the feelings experienced by the survivor as a [...]

Halcyon Frank

06 / 06 / 2024

Positive Vibes Only: Combatting Negativity with Empowerment

During this webinar, we’ll will tackle the issue of negativity head-on and equip you with practical strategies to promote a culture of positivity and empowerment. Negativity can spread like [...]

Wendy Hummell

06 / 11 / 2024

Ask Me Anything: Building a Wellness Program for Your Agency

This session is a supplement to Building a Wellness Program from the Ground Up in which the necessary components of a successful wellness program were discussed. Wendy Hummell, Health and [...]

Jessica Dolce

06 / 27 / 2024

Help for the Helpers: Recognizing and Addressing Stress Injury in Animal Control Officers

The past few years in animal welfare have been especially difficult, leaving many profoundly depleted. Given the challenges in our field, what can we do to care for ourselves, our [...]

Wendy Hummell

09 / 10 / 2024

Building a Case for an In-house Therapist

Mental Health is a concern nationwide, and many organizations are responding by supporting employees with additional resources. Mental health days, additional mental health visits through an EAP, contracts with local [...]

Denise Olsen

09 / 12 / 2024

Grief and GRACE: Lessons for First Responders

Trauma doesn’t occur from abuse alone. Vicarious trauma is an occupational challenge for people working and volunteering in the fields of victim services, law enforcement, emergency medical services, fire [...]

Darren Ivey

Cultivating Wellness in Your Organization: Trauma Informed Leadership and Other Helpful Ideas

Studies have shown that depression and PTSD are up to 5 times more common in first responders and that 85% of first responders have experienced symptoms related to mental health conditions. Most [...]

Jeff Bragg

Angie Jones

A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a State-wide Peer Support Network for First Responders

Peer support teams offer value by providing a safe space for personnel to share experiences, cope with trauma, and access resources, especially in the first responder professions where the likelihood [...]

Michael Gomez

The Magic Decoder Ring: How Criminal Justice Can Work Better with Therapists and Psychologists in Youth and Family Cases

The Justice System and the Behavioral Health professions do not always see eye-to-eye when it comes to approaches when managing system-involved youth. Dr. Michael Gomez provides guidelines to both justice [...]

Jack Harris

Anger Management: An Essential Part of Helping Keep Good People Good

In branches of the criminal justice field, people are exposed to situations where anger is likely. And while everyone experiences anger, how we express, manage, and respond to it may [...]

Diana Knapp

In Custody Deaths: Beyond Case Closed

Suicide is the leading cause of death in jails and prisons in the United States. Those working in jails and prisons are also highly likely to be exposed to such [...]

Amanda Stamps

Beyond Checking a Box: Ensuring Your Crisis Response Grows and Thrives within Your Community

This webinar is the second part of a two-part series on Crisis Response. The first session looked into the current mental health response situation, an overview of different crisis response [...]

Linda Ahrens

Helping Hidden Heroes: Chaplains for Correctional Staff — Emotions, Health, and Retention

Chaplains have been significantly utilized in the corrections setting to provide inmates with support and guidance to set them up for success. Correctional staff, being exposed to the same environment [...]

Courtney

Take the Stress Out Of Your Money: Life Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

The policing profession is a stressful and demanding industry by itself that requires individuals to be performing at their best to effectively serve the communities they swore to protect. The [...]

Jim Martin

Keeping Your Detention Facilities Out of the Ditches and on the Right Path

In the corrections and correctional health care setting, outcomes are important – for the inmates, the staff members, and the facility as a whole. Jim Martin has identified the Pathway to [...]

Amanda Stamps

One Size Does Not Fit All: Developing Community-Specific Crisis Response

Communities are advocating for more compassionate and specialized approaches in collaboration with mental health professionals when responding to those experiencing a mental health crisis. Agencies are now thinking of ways [...]

John Shuford

15 Proven Ways to Improve Staff Morale at No Additional Cost

Organizational stressors were found to have significantly impacted staff morale, employee satisfaction, and retention across industries. In law enforcement and corrections where job duties are demanding and stressful, to say [...]

Terry Clark

Mindfulness for Law Enforcement: Surviving and Thriving in Life and on the Job

Mindfulness can play a crucial role in supporting police work. By cultivating present-moment awareness and non-judgmental acceptance, police officers benefit in a greater sense of self-regulation, resilience, and empathy which [...]

Wendy Hummell

Tools to Manage the Stress Response

Stress response is our body’s natural way of preparing us for high-risk or high-threat situations. Originally a protective factor, when the body spends too long in this state, it [...]

Katharine Manning

Trauma-Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Trauma-informed leadership is crucial in organizations. Trauma-informed leaders create a supportive environment that prioritizes understanding, empathy, and healing, fostering better outcomes for both staff and the individuals they serve. This [...]

Karen Amendola

Long Work Hours, Shift Schedules and the Impact on Law Enforcement Personnel

Insufficient sleep brought about by long work hours can lead to increased fatigue, decreased cognitive performance, and impaired decision-making abilities. In the law enforcement profession, the impact of lack of [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Wellness as a Survival Mechanism: Changing Skills for Changing Times

More and more people are seeking mental health support as the stigma that comes with it is slowly overcome. However, with challenges faced by individuals seeking help to get mental [...]

John Shuford

7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention

Given the retention issues facing criminal justice organizations, the profession has been looking for ways to address them. This session zeroes in on the concept of resilience as a counteracting [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Organizational Stress – From the Administrative Perspective

This webinar is the second installment of a two-part webinar series on organizational stress. The first part zeroed in on organizational stress from the frontline’s perspective but this time [...]

Kathleen Hensley

Khaliqa Wheatley

A Holistic Approach for Agency Wellness: A Spectrum of Options for a Cross-Functional Team

More and more agencies are recognizing the importance of a robust mental health and wellness programming to recruitment, retention, job satisfaction, and productivity. With this in mind, the Walton County [...]

Jacqueline Drew

Sherri Martin

What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source

A large-scale survey was conducted by the National Fraternal Order of Police partnered with Griffith University to capture the state of the law enforcement profession through the eyes of the [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Organizational Stress – From the Frontline Perspective

Helping professionals cite the major source of workplace stress as being organizational in nature rather than operational stress. This suggests that organizations, the leadership, and even the frontline workers can [...]

Pietro “Piero” D’Ingillo

Dave Weiner

The ROAR Response Model: A Roadmap to Crisis Stabilization, Field Dynamics and Decision Making

The ROAR response model minutely dissects facets of field response and is considered a roadmap to de-escalation (crisis stabilization), field dynamics and decision making. It is applicable to field responders, [...]

Jill Palmer

BJ Wagner

Healthy Police – Healthy Policing: Addressing the Police Health and Wellness Crisis from a New Perspective

The law enforcement profession is being hounded by issues left and right. In between the use of force and police misconduct incidents, the recruitment and retention challenges, and the decline [...]

Joe Smarro

Making Connections to Gain Compliance: Lessons from Law Enforcement Professionals

Getting community members to comply with established laws or specific conduct is one of the goals of first responders to keep order and safety within communities. Leaning into the authority [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Corrections Staff Wellness

Working in a correctional facility can be a highly stressful and demanding job, with staff often exposed to violence, trauma, and difficult working conditions. Despite these challenges, many corrections departments [...]

Fred Fletcher

Caroline Huffaker

Not Just Feeling Words: How Victim Services Can Lead to Success in Law Enforcement

Victim services and law enforcement are similar in how these two distinct professions tend to apply skill sets or practices that intersect with other professions to be fully effective in [...]

Bobby Kipper

Establishing Organizational Success: Understanding the EAC Factor for Criminal Justice Organizations

What does it take to establish organizational success? According to Bobby Kipper, it takes three components. The EAC factor which stands for expectations, accountability, and consequences help ensure success for [...]

Brent Richter

Dennis Conroy

Amy Morgan

Why THIS Incident? Why Some Cases Haunt Us More than Others

First responders, public safety, and criminal justice professionals are in fields where bad things are inevitable. How individuals react to these traumatic incidents, however, deeply varies. This session explores the [...]

Katharine Manning

Empathetic Leadership: Building a Culture of Trust

When thinking about leadership traits – things like critical thinking and decision-making tend to come up. However, the most important but underrated leadership trait is actually empathy. Leaders who demonstrate empathy [...]

Marc Hildebrand

How to MASTER your Self-Confidence: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Do you struggle with self-confidence? Do you have certain areas in your life that you are just not as confident with? Do you wonder how some people seem to be [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Burnout and the Law Enforcement Exodus Crisis: Causes, Symptoms and Solutions

A perfect storm – that has got to be the best description of what policing has been experiencing facing adversaries across all fronts for the last few years. The crisis existed [...]

Christopher Gandia

Financial Fitness: Live Today and Prepare for Tomorrow

When talking about officer wellness, the resources provided are mainly about mental health and physical health. It is important to understand however that overall wellness goes beyond these two areas [...]

Bobby Kipper

Building Performance: Understanding the EAC Factors for Justice Professionals

How three basic words can transform your overall performance and empower individuals to reach their short and long-term goals. Participants will learn that self-expectations, accountability, and consequences are three action [...]

Mandy Nice

Tactical Nutrition Guardrails: Bite-Size Action Steps to Increase On-Shift Energy and Decrease Body Fat

Wellness has been at the forefront of first responders and other helping professions over the past few years. The focus tends to be mental health programs to undo the stress [...]

Nicole Fredricks Jackson

Micro-Habits: Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life

We all want to be better off in life – be it physically, emotionally, or professionally. But any improvement entails changes – and this is typically where the difficulty comes in because [...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Seven Principles for Criminal Justice Organizations

With the barrage of issues hounding law enforcement and related justice professions, different approaches utilizing complicated models, advanced skills, and innovations are implemented in response. But at the heart of [...]

Rodger Ruge

Tactical Resilience: Physical Practices for Peak Field Performance (Part 2)

Helping professions are very demanding. Those employed in these fields must be fit in every sense of the word to be hired. Being in these professions, however, subject them to [...]

Colleen McCollough

Ken Murphy

BJ Wagner

The Fourth 9-1-1 Option: Mental Health Services

Law enforcement has been unofficially managing community mental health issues despite not being the experts in such situations. The City of Austin identified this as an area for improvement and [...]

Richard Bojorquez

Pietro “Piero” D’Ingillo

Dave Weiner

Veteran-Centered Crisis Stabilization and Scene Management Strategies

Around two out five of veterans are suffering from some form of mental health issue. Unfortunately, a culture deeply ingrained within veterans may prevent them from seeking assistance with the [...]

Marc Hildebrand

Generating Momentum: How to Create Change in Any Part of Your Life — and Protect It at All Costs!

Looking to make a change but finding yourself not just quite going all in or unable to sustain it? What you just might need to truly make things happen for [...]

Rodger Ruge

Tactical Resilience: Mental Preparedness for Peak Field Performance (Part 1)

An average human being is bound to go through about two traumatic events in a lifetime. But for those working in emergency services and other helping professions, that is increased [...]

BJ Wagner

Creating a Continuum Ecosystem of Crisis Response: It’s Not ‘Either-Or

Law enforcement by default is tasked with the responsibility of dealing with mental health emergencies on top of the profession’s challenges when it comes to funding, staffing, and other [...]

Michael Gomez

Beyond Self-Care: The CE-CERT model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout

Anyone who has experienced vicarious trauma (VT) or secondary trauma (ST) and burnout, or is helping others with these, know too well the conscious effort it takes to manage let [...]

Wendy Hummell

Creating a Culture of Wellness – Increase Retention, Morale, and Employee Health by Infusing Wellness into Your Agency

The need to support law enforcement officers’ holistic wellness given the stressful, if not downright traumatic nature of the job, is being recognized by more and more agencies and even [...]

Darren Ivey

Wendy Hummell

Brenda Dietzman

Resilience Tools and Ideas for People Who Have Stories: A Resilience Discussion Panel

Stress and trauma look different for everyone. Managing and preventing stress and trauma through self-care and resilience is likewise unique for each individual. This session acknowledges these differences by retelling [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Managing Trauma Triggers

People tend to use the term trigger loosely to describe anything that causes them any form of adverse response. In this session, the focus is on trauma triggers – those elicited [...]

Bobby Kipper

Changing Agency Culture and Climate with Spiritual Wellness

More and more workplaces including the criminal justice field are paying attention to employee wellness. Different initiatives, programs, and services are being made available to the workforce to ensure that [...]

Amy Morgan

Suicide Explained: What Leads Someone to that Moment

What drives people to end their lives? Amy Morgan leads the discussion on the factors that lead to suicide ideation, common myths surrounding it, and what can be done to [...]

Wendy Hummell

Blueprint for Resilience – How to Reverse Engineer Burnout & Compassion Fatigue

People often compartmentalize the symptoms that they are experiencing into physical, mental, or emotional. What we often miss is the interrelations of these symptoms with one another. Wendy Hummel leads [...]

Tracy Ertl

Protecting Interpersonal Work Relationships: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Bullies don't just exist in school halls and schoolyards. Just when we think we’re done and over with with that phase, we find ourselves dealing with the same thing [...]

Nick Metz

Sara Metz

Bill Walsh

Sammie Wicks

Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing Times: What does it look like for officers, their families and agencies?

Events that transpired in the last few years made it evident more than ever the challenges the public safety profession is facing. Forced to adapt in a fast-changing world of [...]

Lois James, PhD

How to Improve Your Sleep Hygiene and Reduce Your Fatigue

Watch the Webinar Trailer From employee assistance programs, office gyms and break rooms, to partnerships with physical and mental health resources and providers, workplaces are now recognizing the [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Intergenerational Trauma

People who find themselves entangled in the system are dealing with some form of trauma. This does not only refer to the victims, as even perpetrators may also have been [...]

Wendy Hummell

Coach or Critic? Implement Strategies to Overcome Negativity Bias and Limiting Beliefs

Ever felt like you want to achieve something only to feel limited by your own thoughts and beliefs? Don't worry because you're not the only one. You see, humans are [...]

BJ Wagner

John Snook

988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know (Part 2)

Communities across the nation are participating in an unprecedented effort to transform mental health emergency response. Two years ago, the FCC adopted rules to establish 988 as the new, nationwide, easy-to-remember 3[...]

Tracy Ertl

Stress Relief and Communications

Stressors are inevitable in the world we're living in today. This is especially true for helping professions where all of the incoming information tend to be inherently negative. The value [...]

Kim Colegrove

Demystifying Meditation and Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals

For a lot of people, meditation is typically seen as a practice linked to eastern religions and beliefs. This notion tends to create hesitancy and fear that practicing it means [...]

Amy Morgan

A Trusted Source of Mental Health Resources

When faced with a critical event, an agency will not try to just handle everything on its own. It will call in every possible resource from partner agencies and even [...]

Marc Hildebrand

The Success Equation: The formula to help you master any area of your life FAST!

So many things to do, so little time. We all have goals for different aspects of our lives that it just seems impossible to accomplish all at the same time. [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

“Can’t I Just Go Home?” Interview Techniques, Neurodevelopment, and the Twin Specters of False Allegation and False Confession

This course is the third part of a webinar series on issues related to violence perpetrated by children and adolescents. While the previous sessions looked into risk assessment instruments for [...]

Melissa Reuland

Rob Davis

Jennifer Zeunik

Crisis Intervention Models in Small and Rural Jurisdictions

Police officers and sheriff’s deputies help people in crisis. The crisis though, can be a lot of things, and it includes people going through some sort of mental health [...]

Dr. John W. Newcomer, M.D.

Julie Hiett

Carol Caraballo

Partner Webinar: Mental Health Crisis Response: A Case Study in Reducing Arrests and Coordinating Care

Law enforcement is often placed in the position of responding to individuals experiencing a behavioral health crisis, whether a serious mental illness or substance use disorder. Thriving Mind South Florida, [...]

Dr. Amber Simpler

Partner Webinar: Competency Restoration in Jails: A Versatile Response to the Competency Crisis

Competency refers to the individual’s ability to understand their legal situation, its potential outcomes, and participate in a legal proceeding. Restoration is an effort to uphold justice by providing [...]

Adam Leath

Critical Incident Stress Management for the ACO

Those working in public safety and emergency response are exposed to significantly more stress and trauma-inducing critical incidents than the general population. Numerous efforts are being implemented by agencies in [...]

Amy Morgan

There’s More To You Than Your Career: Finding Balance and Personal Identity

Who are you know and where do you want to be? Existentialist questions are tough, but these are things that we ought to contemplate on if we want to live [...]

Joe Smarro

Lessons on Compassionate Policing from Joe Smarro of the HBO documentary ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS

Compassionate policing is a mindset and culture that must be adopted across law enforcement agencies to be fully effective in the community. Not only does it provide community members with [...]

Shannon Scully

John Snook

988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know

In 2020, Congress the Federal Communications Commission made 988 the universal three-digit dialing code for mental health crisis in the United States. It is an expansion of the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’[...]

Bobby Kipper

Scott Geller, PhD

Actively Caring for People: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals

Different approaches to policing are being introduced and implemented – some require complicated models, technical skills, and some of the most cutting-edge technology. However, it is typically the foundational concepts that [...]

Wendy Hummell

Brenda Dietzman

Resiliency for Women

It entails a high level of resilience to work in helping professions. This is especially true for women who must constantly be present for the people they serve at work [...]

Kim Colegrove

Facing the Mental and Emotional Impact of this Work: 3 Steps Justice Professionals and Spouses Can Take Today

Helping professions like law enforcement, dispatchers, EMTs, and firefighters are subjected to some of the most dreadful aspects of a community. All the horrors they’ve witnessed, listened to, or [...]

Shannon Denard

Building a Bridge of Trust, Confidence and Cooperation: Multiple Brain Integration for Law Enforcement and Community Interaction

To “Protect and Serve” requires “Trust and Cooperation.” Law Enforcement utilizes police academy training on every call but not every community call results in law enforcement to community relationship cooperation. [...]

C. Gabrielle Salfati

Burnout in Law Enforcement and First Responders: Building Resilience & Reclaiming Your Energy

Mental illness issues are much higher in first responders than in civilians. Deterioration of mental health is observed in criminal justice and public safety professionals during their time of service [...]

Grant McDougall

Under Siege: The Psychological Impact on Law Enforcement in These Troubled Times

The law enforcement profession is demanding to say the least. In a career where one is deployed to some of the most dangerous and daunting situations, it requires those who [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

Risk Assessment Tools for Legally Involved Youth

Transitional age brain happens between the age of 13 to 25 years old where there’s a mismatch between the areas of the brain involved in emotions and pleasure and the region [...]

Bobby Kipper

Spiritual Wellness for Criminal Justice Professionals

In the last couple of years, there has been a shift in the criminal justice training arena towards the ‘soft skills’ to help criminal justice professionals manage the people they [...]

Jim Martin

Suicide Prevention: A NCCHC Resource Guide

The Suicide Prevention Resource Guide was conceived with a goal to find solutions for suicidal individuals and suicide risks in correctional facilities. It provides insights, promising practices, and guidelines for [...]

Wendy Hummell

Improving Resilience in Five Minutes a Day: Applying the 4 Pillars of Resilience into a Daily Routine to Thrive

The concept of resilience may seem abstract and at times romanticized to a fault. But at its core and in the practical side of looking at things, resilience is a [...]

Lois James, PhD

Police Fatigue: Strategies for Managing Fatigue and Promoting Sleep Health

With the inherent nature of the law enforcement profession where officers are exposed to challenging conditions, traumatic circumstances, plus add the shift work into the equation, fatigue becomes inevitable. Numerous [...]

Marc Hildebrand

The Secret Behind Getting into Incredible Shape while Working Our Crazy Careers

We all want to be the best version of ourselves. Unfortunately, as we juggle so many things in our lives, we sometimes find ourselves dropping some of these, with one [...]

Sandra K. Antoniak

“I Wanted to Know What it Feels Like”: Childhood Psychopathy and Extreme Violence Committed by Youth

One in every ten violent crimes committed in the US is perpetrated by a person younger than 18 years old. Violence perpetrated by youth is truly unsettling. It also makes us, [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Long-Term Coping Skills

The pandemic affected people all over the world. Physically – with their mobility reduced due to health protocols; socially – with lessened interactions with loved ones; professionally – with productivity impacted by remote [...]

Dr. Stephen Odom

Amy Morgan

Depression: Myths, Signs, Prevention and Treatment

People assume that depression looks the same for everybody, but this isn’t really the case. This session is dedicated to better understand depression – see its prevalence, debunk myths about [...]

Katharine Manning

The Empathetic Workplace: 5 Steps to a Compassionate, Calm, and Confident Response to Trauma on the Job

There are a lot of people who are suffering from stress and trauma that are not getting the help they need. This fact is only exacerbated over the last year [...]

Wendy Hummell

Understanding Compassion Fatigue for First Responders and Criminal Justice Professionals

Who helps the helpers when they’re the ones who need help? Work for those in the helping professions – law enforcement, medical, EMT, animal control, fire, dispatch – seeing people suffering, [...]

Sean Goodison

Police Response to Homelessness: Promising Practices and Partnerships for Criminal Justice Professionals

Law enforcement has been the first responder and default go-to entity for so many incidents that they really shouldn’t be involved in the first place. With the realization that [...]

Lisa Boesky

Preventing Jail Suicide: Issues We Don’t Talk About, But Should

This is the second installment of Dr. Lisa Boesky’s Preventing Jail Suicide webinars. The first session unpacked specific strategies that jails may implement to avoid suicide deaths and related [...]

Chris Jones

Adverse Childhood Experiences: The Importance of Law Enforcement Recognition and Intervention

It’s been said that most of the things we are dealing with in our adulthood are actually remnants of our childhood. We may not see it outright, but once [...]

Jennifer Heisig

Hilary Weinberg

Building Peer Support Programs for Prosecutors

Everyone experiences stress in some form or another. Between seeing people in some of the worst circumstances, being privy to information that are just downright graphic, or having to hear [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Change and Acceptance: Why We Succeed, Why We Fail

We witnessed massive changes around us. Between 2020’s wildfires, COVID-19, George Floyd, the civil unrest, to a heated presidential election, and the fresh Capitol riot of 2021, we’re all forced [...]

Shane Nolte

Krista Thronson

BJ Wagner

Dr. Margie Balfour

John Snook

Successful Mental Health Diversion Programs: What Law Enforcement Needs to Know

Emergencies are typically grouped based on who can resolve them: fire, medic, or police. It’s easy to determine which ones fall under fire and medic. For all the gray [...]

Lisa Boesky

Preventing Jail Suicide: Adjusting Current Strategies to Save Lives

Prisons have higher rates of suicide deaths than the general population and jails have even higher suicide rates than prisons. With this is in mind, it is imperative that these [...]

David Black

Strengthening First Responder Resilience and Wellness During Social Unrest and Stressful Times

First responders are the people whom the community depend on to do the dirty work – the ones we know we can’t handle and are too difficult. Given the stressful [...]

Amy Morgan

Outside Yourself: Making the Most of Mental Health Resources

In discussions that relate to mental health, self-care, and wellness, one of the points that is stressed time and again is to reach out to resources proactively and when needed. [...]

Halcyon Frank

Amy Morgan

Life-Saving Partners: 911 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together

Ensuring the safety of the public requires constant coordination between the agencies involved. Fire, EMS, law enforcement, dispatch – these are just some of the key stakeholders that must collaborate to [...]

Katie Nelson

You Matter: Self Care for the Social Media Manager

If you’re finding yourself not performing at your best the past months, you’re not the only one. The past 9 months or so had been surreal, from natural disasters, [...]

Sean Goodison

On the Front Lines of the Opioid Epidemic: Research, Challenges and Multi-Disciplinary Responses in the Justice System

Opioid use has reshaped American society in many ways – how drug trafficking and trade is being done, the drug dependency lifestyle perpetuated, the decreased life expectancy, the families it impacted. [...]

Karla Ramirez

Frank Webb

J.C. Adams

John Colburn, PhD

Co-Responder Programs: Keys to Successful Implementation and Promising Innovations for Justice Professionals

Demands to defund the police are rather counterintuitive considering communities’ dependence on them to address any incident that is considered a threat to public safety or a nuisance to the [...]

Brenda Dietzman

Building Resiliency: The Dawn of the Mentally Strong Employee

The helping profession has its two sides. One is positive, with words like noble and rewarding associated with it. On the other side, it is seen as a thankless job, [...]

Andy Carrier

John McGuire

Kit Cummings

Rita Watkins

Eric Skidmore

Post Critical Incident Seminar: A Tested Solution for Helping Cops Recover From The Worst Incidents

In a previous related webinar, Rev. Eric Skidmore and Dr. Joseph Cheng provided an overview of the Post Critical Incident Seminars (PCIS) being conducted by the South Carolina Law Enforcement [...]

Grant McDougall

School Guardian Programs: A Psychological Perspective

Despite opposing opinions and stances on many factors surrounding school shootings, if there’s one thing that the entire population can agree on it, it is that the carnage has [...]

Jeff Thompson, Ph.D.

Kevin Morison

An Occupational Risk: What Law Enforcement Agencies Can Do to Prevent Officer Suicide

More officers are dying by suicide than line of duty deaths. This conveys that while they’re well prepared and trained to handle critical incidents and dodge attacks and bullets, [...]

Halcyon Frank

Amy Morgan

No Second Chance: Handling Suicidal Callers in Dispatch

Dispatchers are the very frontline of the public safety sector. They play a critical role in response as they’re the first ones who get information on what’s happening [...]

Dr. Joseph C. Cheng

Eric Skidmore

Post Critical Incident Seminar: What You Can Do When Things Aren’t Getting Better

Individuals working in the law enforcement, public safety, and emergency response field are often exposed to sensitive if not completely gruesome events on the job. Line of duty shootings, high-speed [...]

Shelly Katkowski

Suicide by Cop Protocols and Training Guide

Webinar Video Clip: Suicide by Cop Protocols and Training Guide Law enforcement protocols are highly scrutinized as of late. Responding officers are specially trained to de-escalate in-crisis individuals, but in [...]

Obed Magny

The Contagiousness of Vicarious Trauma: Impacts, Considerations, and Responses

Everyone can experience trauma, for individuals working in industries that deal with critical incidents and emergencies, the risk of exposure to trauma is further aggravated. The community’s helpers need [...]

Michael Goold

Emotional Intelligence: The Hard Skill that Will Make Your Career and Save Your Personal Life

This webinar will introduce you to the principle of Emotional Intelligence and how you can prevent emotional hijacks, give yourself a yellow card, and “read” the emotions of others to [...]

Kimberly Miller

Calming Your Storm: Tools to De-Escalate Yourself, Increase Emotional Control & Reduce “Reactivity”

It’s been told that the COVID-19 pandemic is the kind of storm that puts us all in the same boat, unfortunately, this isn’t exactly the case. When such [...]

Grant McDougall

Cumulative Trauma: The Covert Enemy of First Responders

Trauma is typically associated with extreme life-altering experiences. However, the concept of cumulative trauma is quite different from this. As the term suggests, it happens in a slow, repeated, and [...]

Al Cobos

Motivation and Meaning for Law Enforcement Personnel

It takes one bad apple to spoil the bunch, one bad incident to forget all the good that’s been done. Outlier events are putting the whole law enforcement arena [...]

Amy Morgan

Challenge Yourself to Change Your Life

Change is hard. Now that we got that out of the way, Amy Morgan wants to challenge you to change your life. Sure, making changes in one’s life can [...]

Kimberly Miller

AMA: Maintaining Resilience

The Doctor is IN. Join us for the finale of this thought-provoking series about Resiliency, Leadership and the Challenging time we're living through. Dr. Kimberly Miller will be answering questions [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Working with Childhood Trauma: Tools for Justice Professionals

This is the third installment of Duane Bowers’ Child Trauma webinar series. It started with a course that covered a comprehensive introduction to childhood trauma. The second one provided guidelines [...]

Jim Martin

Standards of Care: Mental Health in Our Jails and Prisons…Now What?

Correctional health care is public health care – if we can release the inmate population much better than we found them, communities are made safer and stronger. This is how Jim [...]

Tina Buneta

Joseph Hoebeke

Doreen Jokerst

Justin Smith

William Beck

Jack Cauley

Kimberly Miller

Leadership On The Front Lines: Navigating The COVID-19 Pandemic

Webinar Video Clip: Leadership on the Front Lines - Navigating the COVID-19 Pandemic COVID-19 is testing everyone’s resilience. People are experiencing anxiety over their mobility, safety, livelihood, and [...]

Kimberly Miller

More Ways to Bounce and Build Your Resilience (Part 2)

This is the second installment of Dr. Kimberly Miller’s webinar series on resilience and bounceability. This time around, she will be providing six additional tools that can be integrated [...]

Daniel McDonald

Saving Money While Saving Lives: Building a Business Case for a Homeless Outreach Team (HOT)

Amidst the COVID-19 crisis, we are all told to stay home and stay safe. But what happens to those who do not have homes? Under normal circumstances, there are more [...]

Kimberly Miller

Increasing Your Bounceability: Ways to Build Resilience Every Day

What the whole world is going through right now is testing all of us – from the government’s decision-making to things that we have better control of like our discipline, [...]

Dr. Babatunde Okuleye, M.D., MBA

Robin Timme

Jennifer Horney

Corrections and COVID-19: Enhancing Resiliency of Staff and Inmate Populations

This is the second part of the Corrections and COVID-19 series made possible through the Falcon Correctional and Community Services, Inc. Topics covered in the first installment are the epidemiology [...]

Amy Morgan

Suicide Explained: What Leads Someone To That Moment

This is the second installment of Amy Morgan’s three-part webinar series that focuses on our life’s struggles and stresses. The first part talked about pre-prevention when it [...]

Robin Timme

Jennifer Horney

Scott Semple

Elias A. Diggins

Corrections and COVID-19: Maintaining Mental Wellness of Staff and Inmates During Custodial Pandemonium

Strange times we’re in right now and it’s affected our consciousness on a whole new level. There is a threat – we cannot see it, but we know it’[...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Assessing Childhood Trauma: A Guide for Justice Professionals

This is the second installment of this Justice Clearinghouse series on childhood trauma. While the first one provided an introduction to childhood trauma, this one offers pointers on the things [...]

Amy Morgan

Pre-Prevention – Staying Ahead of the Struggle

Minor issues and things that cause stress in our everyday life can pile up and compound into a much bigger problem. It may get to a point that the load [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Causes and Conditions of Childhood Trauma: A Practical Approach for Justice Professionals

Traumatic events can have lasting effects on people – more so if it is children who have limited understanding and lack awareness when it comes to regulation their own behavior and [...]

Wes Dotson

Case Studies in Law Enforcement Encounters with Individuals on the Autism Spectrum

This session is the final installment of the Autism Spectrum Disorder webinar series. Tying up what was discussed and applying what was learned in the first three webinars, this session [...]

Daniel McDonald

How to Start a Police Homeless Outreach Team in Three Easy Steps

After answering the whys for a law enforcement agency to launch their own Police Homeless Outreach Team (HOT), Daniel McDonald’s second webinar in the series will deep-dive into the [...]

Amy Morgan

Growth as a Post-Trauma Response

At one point or another, we all are exposed to events that may warrant a trauma response. It could be something that we’ve gone through in childhood, more recent [...]

Dan Phillips

Brandon “Choe” Sergent, M. Th.,

Jail Ministries: The Top 10 Things to Consider

Jails and prisons have their challenges and would greatly benefit from help from the community. Religious organizations are willing to provide whatever help they can extend, but they too, identify [...]

Jonathan Parker

Watch Your Six: Because Making It Home is Just the Beginning (Part 2)

The second installment of a two-part series, Jonathan Parker is back on Justice Clearinghouse to continue on his Watch Your Six course. In the first part, Jonathan unpacked the six [...]

John Snook

Carrie Hill

Fixing the Incentives that Force Sheriffs to be Mental Health Providers: A Long Overdue Opportunity

Criminal justice agencies are bearing the brunt of the mental health crisis – in cost, time, and manpower. Despite numerous initiatives from different segments of the criminal justice system, from training [...]

Jonathan Parker

Watch Your Six: Because Making it Home is Just the Beginning (Part 1)

It’s s been said that in life we juggle rubber and glass balls. The rubber balls represent aspects of our life that we can bounce back from. The glass [...]

Karen Solomon

Amy Morgan

Saving Our Heroes and Their Families From The Pain of Suicide

Articles, photos, reminders, and chain messages are making rounds on the internet encouraging people to be cognizant of potential mental health issues others are experiencing – to be wary, listen, support, [...]

Jason Ratcliff

Darrah Metz

Kimberly Miller

Therapy K9’s: Changing the way law enforcement reaches their communities

One in every five American families has a pet. Pets provide security, companionship, happiness, and love to the individuals and families they live with. The law enforcement and criminal justice [...]

Dan Phillips

Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System: The Facts and Figures Justice Professionals Need to Know

Law enforcement officers find themselves dealing with people from all walks of life daily – and it includes people with mental health issues. These people might end up in jails and [...]

Daniel McDonald

The Top 10 Reasons to Start a Police Homeless Outreach Team

The state of homelessness is getting worse, and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development highlighted the magnitude of the issue reporting that more than half a million [...]

Arlyn Harris

Thinking for a Change: Expanding and Collaborating on a Cognitive Behavioral Program for Probation

Learn how Maricopa County Adult Probation Department (MCAPD) successfully expanded its implementation of Thinking for a Change (a cognitive behavioral intervention program with the NIC) through collaboration with external treatment [...]

Amy Morgan

Honoring our Differences

Doing a Google search can easily expose you to the many ways society decides to categorize and label people. Are you an introvert, extrovert, or ambivert? Do you belong to [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Mental Health Concepts and Trafficking: fundamentals for justice professionals to understand

According to The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder results from traumatic events by directly experiencing it, witnessing it, being privy to its details or repeated [...]

Jason Winsky

Policing Vulnerable Populations: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Programs

Law enforcement and mental health support services intersect in drug abuse cases. Tucson recognized the link between two disciplines when they conceptualized their Mental Health Support Team that allowed people [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

The Impact of Trauma on Child Development: What justice professionals needs to know

Through numerous courses tackling trauma here on Justice Clearinghouse, we’ve established its detrimental effects on different facets of an individual’s life. This session will unpack how trauma specifically [...]

Alana Negroni

The Benefits of Developing a Peer Support Program

Stress seems to be inevitable these days – in our work, relationships, and life brought about by the competitive, fast-paced lifestyles we’re leading and external factors and circumstances we’re [...]

Dr. Peggy Rothbaum

Protecting the Protector: Who is Taking Care of You?

It’s been said that working in public service is a vocation – a higher calling – selflessly giving one’s time and energy to protect and improve other’s lives. But [...]

Sara E. Mahoney

Mindfulness in Domestic Violence Work- Part II

This is the second-part of Sara Mahoney’s Mindfulness Series. She addressed mindfulness for domestic violence victims in the first one and on this session, she will discuss mindfulness for [...]

Rich Martin

A Daily Drop of Corrosion: How the Daily Experiences in the Justice Professions Can Lead to Burnout

In 2018, CareerCast ranked policing as the fourth most stressful job in the US brought about by the dangerous and demanding nature of the profession. When an individual’s stress is [...]

Jason Winsky

Beyond CIT: Establishing Mental Health Support Teams

Responding to those experiencing mental health challenges or addiction requires a unique set of skills that many in law enforcement simply don't have. Knowing the challenges facing their jurisdiction, the [...]

Denise Beagley

Trauma Informed Care and Response: 101 Training for Justice Professionals

A significant chunk of the population has gone through a traumatic experience in their lives – it has become the norm and no longer the exception. Because of this, awareness efforts [...]

Trauma-Informed Training: Incorporating Wellness for Deputies

For the general population, only 9% meet the criteria for PTSD across their lifespan, but in correctional populations, almost 100% experienced trauma in their life. The correctional setting is found to be [...]

Victoria Riechers, MA

Working with Sexual Assault Victims: Strategies for Justice Professionals

The second of a two-part webinar series, Victoria Reichers is back on Justice Clearinghouse. The first part discussed what happens internally to sexual assault victims by unpacking the neurobiology of [...]

Sara E. Mahoney

Mindfulness in Domestic Violence Work-Part I

Working in the field of criminal justice, probation, victim advocacy and social services is a noble path. It gives an individual the ability to change the course of another person’[...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Self-Care for Justice Professionals

In 2012, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM–V) rewrote the definition of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) such that it is no longer confined to those who experienced [...]

Amy Morgan

Difficult Conversations

Difficult conversations are just that – difficult. They happen in instances when we need to communicate our grievances, things that we want to change, or deliver bad news. But there are [...]

John G. Peters, Jr., Ph.D.

Suicide Identification, Prevention, and Policy Failure

Suicide was the leading cause of death in jails in 2014. It also impacts everyone surrounding the incident including inmates and corrections personnel. While there is no fool-proof way to prevent [...]

Victoria Riechers, MA

Lindsay Ashworth

The Neurobiology and Traumatic Impact of Sexual Assault

Traversing a sexual violence case is tricky. When sexual assault survivors are asked to recount the unfortunate experience from memory there are doubts when they cannot quite remember things in [...]

David Stephens

Harmony Goorley, MA, LCPC, LSOTP

Balancing Order and Recovery: Blueprints for a High-Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jail

A significant number of those incarcerated are affected by trauma. Since part of correctional facilities’ goals is to affect behavior change and rehabilitation, ensuring that re-traumatization does not take place [...]

Alana Negroni

Impact of an Officer Involved Shooting

Law enforcement has always been an adrenaline-driven field, it is the nature of the job. Some of the incidents police officers find themselves are a little bit more critical than [...]

Amy Morgan

The Trauma of First Response to Cruelty

When people are in danger, they call on to first responders to give them the help they need – to manage the situation, deal with the trauma, and provide other needed [...]

Carrie Hill

A Duty to Protect: Mental Health Care to the Incarcerated

Webinar Video Clip: A Duty to Protect - Mental Health Care to the Incarcerated There is a mental illness crisis plaguing jails all over the US. More and more [...]

Kimberly Miller

Keeping Your Super Heroes Super

Taking on the job in the public sector means being ready to be of service to the people. For those working as first responders, health providers, or law enforcers – service [...]

Harmony Goorley, MA, LCPC, LSOTP

Recipes for Controlling the Emotional Hijack When Roasted, Shaken, and Stirred Amid Crisis

Emotional hijack happens to everyone. When you’re in the law enforcement and criminal justice field, you are even more vulnerable to such. You will witness such behavior from the [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Workshop: Understanding Ambiguous Loss’ Impact on Justice Professionals

Whether it’s losing a loved one or a job, we’ve all experienced a loss at some point in our lives. But ambiguous loss is different… meaning that we [...]

Ed Sherman, Psy.D.

The Power of Resilient Leadership

There are many values and virtues that we are all taught from school to our jobs when it comes to surviving and living our lives. All of these are valuable, [...]

Denise Beagley

Verbal De-Escalation

As a public servant, part of any criminal justice profession is encountering random strangers, even sketchy characters. Not just merely meeting them, but talking to them, building rapport such that [...]

Amy Morgan

On the Job Threats: Managing the Fear and Panic Response

Anxiety disorders (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic disorder, etc.) are the most common mental illness, and it affects millions of people around the world. According to the National Institute of [...]

Matthew Kail

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Creating an Organizational Culture of Wellness

Work-related stress is prevalent – it happens to people with 9 to 5 desk jobs, field workers, start-up entrepreneurs, top-tier executives; blue collar, white collar. Work-related stress can be reduced and relieved by [...]

Ray Nash

Resiliency and the Dynamic of Restoration

Resiliency is a highly-revered quality. Overcoming adversity and our personal demons can be tough. More so when you’re in a position that exposes you to different characters and situations. [...]

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Providing Wellness Support for Online Child Exploitation Personnel: From website to arrest

Employees working in the field of public service and social welfare often extend help to others who go through tumultuous moments. In doing so, they also take into their psyche [...]

Amy Morgan

Recognizing Mental Health Disorders in Others

The law enforcement and justice profession deal with different types of people with a myriad of personalities. It can get tricky having to decode each one and ensuring that your [...]

Amy Morgan

Basic Suicide Prevention, Intervention & Postvention

This course is designed to each anyone how to recognize signs of suicidal ideation in another person, or yourself, to identify potential suicidal behavior. Also covered is how to conduct [...]

Laura Usher

Paton Blough

Safely Responding to Mental Health Crisis A Perspective from An Individual Living with Mental Illness

The Justice Clearinghouse and the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) are working together to educate and train first responders on the subject of mental illness. Hear what works in [...]

Pat Nelson

Jason Winsky

Terry Staten

Law Enforcement Mental Health Support Teams

Today’s public safety practitioners are becoming increasingly aware that they need to use a special operational approach when encountering an individual with known mental health issues. Public safety officials [...]

Patti Saylor

A Son’s Legacy, Improving Law Enforcement Response to Persons with Disabilities

Ms. Patti Saylor will guide viewers through the actions that have been taken since the death of her son Ethan. The training will open with this clip from WUSA9. [...]

Amy Morgan

Suicide Prevention and Intervention

Amy Morgan, will cover the basics – what signs show possible suicidal thoughts and/or risk, how to talk to someone who is considering suicide, how to intervene and seek help, [...]

Amy Morgan

Suicide Postvention Dealing with the Aftermath

During this webinar, Amy Morgan, Training Officer with the Oklahoma Bureau of Investigation, will discuss how to help the friends, family members, and peers of someone who has died [...]

Amy Morgan

Blending the After Action Review Critical Incident Stress Debriefing

This webinar will compare specific steps to action improvement, with the mentally beneficial side of debriefing after a critical incident, and will provide a way to blend the two [...]

Lanae Holmes

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

NCMEC Protecting Child Pornography Investigation Personnel Part One

This webinar will provide an in depth look at the impact viewing child pornography may have on personnel. It will also discuss why some people are more impacted [...]

Natalie Johnson

Nutrition for Tactical Performance Part Two

Description: Our presenter, Ms. Natalie Johnson, will discuss practical nutrition strategies to improve performance through sports nutrition and energy management. She will cover topics such as how much and how [...]

Natalie Johnson

Tactical Movement and Exercise for Optimal Performance

Ms. Natalie Johnson, will discuss strategic movement and exercise to assist in managing and expanding energy capacity. Energy is the foundation for being fully engaged. As Law Enforcement and Emergency [...]

Natalie Johnson

Nutrition for Tactical Performance Part One

Michael G. Aamodt

The Police Personality Solid as a Rock or Still Crazy After All These Years

The Internet, as well as many written sources, suggest that police officers engage in an unusually high number of maladaptive behaviors. That is, they are thought to have high divorce, [...]

Pam McMillan

A Life of Stress: The Damages and the Proper Response

Description: This two hour course is designed to help participants learn some skills and tools for dealing with stress in their lives. A Life of Stress, The Damages: Participants gain [...]

After the Webinar: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a State-wide Peer Support Network for First Responders. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar Presenters Angie Jones and Jeff Bragg answered a number of your questions after their presentation, A Multi-Disciplinary Approach to a State Wide Peer Support Network for First Responders: How [...]

After the Webinar: How to Investigate Human Trafficking Step by Step. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar Presenters Bill Loucks and Jeff Bolettieri answered a number of your questions after their presentation, How to Investigate Human Trafficking Step by Step. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Anger Management. Q&A with Jack Harris

Webinar presenter Jack Harris answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Anger Management: An Essential Part of Helping Keep Good People Good. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: In Custody Deaths: Beyond Case Closed. Q&A with Diana Knapp

Webinar presenter Diana Knapp answered a number of your questions after her webinar, In Custody Deaths: Beyond Case Closed. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Beyond Checking a Box. Q&A with Amanda Stamps

Webinar presenter Amanda Stamps answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Beyond Checking a Box: Ensuring Your Crisis Response Grows and Thrives within Your Community. Here are just [...]

After the Webinar: Helping Hidden Heroes. Q&A with Linda Ahrens

Webinar presenter Linda Ahrens answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Helping Hidden Heroes: Chaplains for Correctional Staff Emotions, Health, and Retention. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Take the Stress Out of Your Money Q&A with Courtney from Heroes Financial Coaching

Webinar presenter Courtney of Heroes Financial Coaching answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Take the Stress Out of Your Money: Life Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here [...]

After the Webinar: One Size Does Not Fit All – Developing Community Specific Crisis Response. Q&A with Amanda Stamps

Webinar presenter Amanda Stamps answered a number of your questions after her webinar, One Size Does Not Fit All: Developing Community-Specific Response. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

Thoughts about the Staffing Crisis from John Shuford

John Shuford shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, 15 Proven Ways to Improve Staff Morale at No Additional Cost. Here’s just one. “We cannot hire our [...]

Thoughts about Biggest Stressors from Sherri Martin and Dr. Jackie Drew

Sherri Marin and Dr. Jacqueline Drew shared so many great data points and insights from their research during the webinar, What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source. Here’s just [...]

Thoughts about Seeking Help from Dr. Jackie Drew

Sherri Marin and Dr. Jacqueline Drew shared so many great data points and insights from their research during the webinar, What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source. Here’s just [...]

Thoughts about Officer Burnout from Sherri Martin

Sherri Marin and Dr. Jacqueline Drew shared so many great data points and insights from their research during the webinar, What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source. Here’s just [...]

Thoughts about Grace from Diana Knapp

During her webinar, Diana Knapp shared a number of great thoughts during the webinar, Boomers, Slackers and Snowflakes: Building a Multi-Generational Leadership Team. Here’s just one of her great [...]

Thoughts on the Importance of Mental Health from Kathleen Hensley

We loved this great reminder Kathleen Hensley shared during her webinar, A Holistic Approach for Agency Wellness: A Spectrum of Options for a Cross-Functional Team. "Mental health is just [...]

Thoughts on Employee Resilience from John Shuford

During his webinar, John Shuford shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, The 7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention. Here’s just one. "Within the first [...]

Thoughts about Depression from John Shuford

During his webinar, John Shuford shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, The 7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention. Here’s just one. "What do PTSD, depression [...]

Thoughts about Controlling Your Thinking from John Shuford

During his webinar, John Shuford shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, The 7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention. Here’s just one. "We do have [...]

Thoughts about Self Care from Duane Bowers

During his webinar, Duane Bowers shared a number of great reminders during his webinar, Wellness as a Survival Mechanism: Changing Skills for Changing Times. Here’s just one. "It's up [...]

After the Webinar: Mindfulness for Law Enforcement. Q&A with Terry Clark

Webinar presenter Terry Clark answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Mindfulness for Law Enforcement: Surviving and Thriving in Life and on the Job. Here are just a [...]

Thoughts about Worry from Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek

During her webinar Dr. Jackalyn Rainosek shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Change is a Process, not an Event: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just [...]

Thoughts about Trauma in the 2020s from Katherine Manning

During her webinar Katherine Manning shared a number of great insights during the webinar, Trauma Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here’s just one of her great reminders. &[...]

Thoughts about Trauma from Katherine Manning

Thoughts about Fair and Equal Treatment from Katherine Manning

After the Webinar: Tools to Manage the Stress Response. Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Tools to Manage the Stress Response. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Trauma Informed Leadership. Q&A with Katharine Manning

Webinar presenter Katharine Manning answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Trauma Informed Leadership: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Wellness as a Survival Mechanism. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Wellness as a Survival Mechanism: Changing Skills for Changing Times. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Long Work Hours, Shift Schedules and Their Impact on Law Enforcement Personnel. Q&A with Dr. Karen Amendola

Webinar presenter Dr. Karen Amendola answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Long Work Hours, Shift Schedules, and Their Impact on Law Enforcement Personnel. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: The 7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention. Q&A with John Shuford

Webinar presenter John Shuford answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The 7 Keys to Personal Resilience and Job Retention. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Organizational Stress from the Administrative Perspective. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Organizational Stress: From the Administrative Perspective. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: A Holistic Approach for Agency Wellness. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Khaliqa Wheatley and Kathleen Hensley answered a number of your questions after their presentation, A Holistic Approach for Wellness: A Spectrum of Options for a Cross-Functional Team. Here [...]

After the Webinar: What Police Officers Want. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Sherri Martin and Dr. Jacqueline Drew answered a number of your questions after their presentation, What Police Officers Want: Consulting the Source. Here are just a few of [...]

Thoughts about People from Joe Smarro

JOe Smarro always shares so many great insights during his webinars. This was just one that he shared during his webinar, Making Connections to Gain Compliance: Lessons from Law Enforcement [...]

Thoughts on Connection from Joe Smarro

We loved this reminder that Joe Smarro shared during his webinar, Making Connections to Gain Compliance: Lessons from Law Enforcement Professionals. "You need to have a connection before you can [...]

Thoughts on Resilience from Tira Hubbard

Tira Hubbard shared a number of great ideas and thoughts during her webinar, The Changing Face of Probation: Recipes for Resilience to Survive Corrections Fatigue. This one caught our attention. "[...]

Thoughts on Wellness from Dr. Ed Sherman

Dr. Ed Sherman always has such great advice during his webinars. Here was one he shared during his webinar, “Achieving Effective Outcomes through Staff Communication.” "If you don't make time [...]

After the Webinar: Healthy Police, Healthy Policing. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters BJ Wagner and Dr. Jill Palmer answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Healthy Police - Healthy Policing: Addressing the Police Health and Wellness Crisis from [...]

After the Webinar: Recipes for Resilience to Survive Corrections Fatigue. Q&A with Tira Hubbard

Webinar presenter Tira Hubbard answered a number of your questions after her webinar, The Changing Face of Probation: Recipes for Resilience to Survive Corrections Fatigue. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Making Connections to Gain Compliance. Q&A with Joe Smarro

Webinar presenter Joe Smarro answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Making Connections to Gain Compliance: Lessons from Law Enforcement Professionals. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Corrections Staff Wellness. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her webinar, Corrections Staff Wellness. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: Are there any [...]

Thoughts on Self Care from Dr. Michael Gomez

We loved this reminder that Dr. Michael Gomez shared during his webinar, "Beyond Self Care: The CE-CERT Model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout." "Self Care is more than a bubble [...]

Thoughts on Homelessness from Pietro D’Ingillo

We loved this reminder that Dr. Pietro D'Ingillo shared during his webinar, Veteran-Centered Crisis Stabilization and Scene Management Strategies. Click Here for our full lineup of Law Enforcement-related Webinars.

After the Webinar: The Power of Your Passion. Q&A with Sara Weston

Webinar presenter Sara Weston answered a number of your questions after her webinar, The Power of Your Passion: Lessons for Dispatch and Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Empathetic Leadership – Building a Culture of Trust. Q&A with Katharine Manning

Webinar presenter Katharine Manning answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Empathetic Leadership: Building a Culture of Trust. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Trauma Informed Practice 101. Q&A with Alejandro Palacios

Webinar presenter Alejandro Palacios answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Trauma Informed Practice 101. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: How can different [...]

After the Webinar: Mastering Self Confidence. Q&A with Marc Hildebrand

Webinar presenter Marc Hildebrand answered a number of your questions after his presentation, How to Master Your Self-Confidence: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Leadership Reset – Setting Goals for the New Year. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Leadership Reset: Setting Goals for the New Year. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Burnout and the Law Enforcement Exodus Crisis. Q&A with Dr. Gabrielle Salfati

Webinar presenter Dr. Gabrielle Salfati answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Burnout and the Law Enforcement Exodus Crisis: Causes, Symptoms, and Solutions. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Financial Fitness. Q&A with Christopher Gandia

Webinar presenter Christopher Gandia answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Financial Fitness: Live for Today and Prepare for Tomorrow. Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: High Risk Terminations. Q&A with Nick Spencer

Webinar presenter Nick Spencer answered a number of your questions after his presentation, High-Risk Terminations: Policies, Procedures, and Planning. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Micro-Habits – Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life. Q&A with Nicole Fredricks Jackson

Webinar presenter Nicole Fredricks Jackson answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Micro-Habits: Navigating the Intersection of Work and Life. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Tactical Resilience (Part 2). Q&A with Rodger Ruge

Webinar presenter Rodger Ruge answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Tactical Resilience: Physical Resilience for Peak Field Performance (Part 2). Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Veteran-Centered Crisis Stabilization and Scene Management Strategies. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Richard Bojorquez, Dr. Piero D'Ingllio, and Dave Weiner answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Veteran-Centered Crisis Stabilization and Scene Management Strategies. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: The 4th 911 Option – Mental Health Services. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Ken Murphy, Colleen McCollough, and BJ Wagner answered a number of your questions after their presentation, The 4th 911 Option: Mental Here Services. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Tactical Resilience – Mental Preparedness for Peak Performance. Q&A with Rodger Ruge

Webinar presenter Rodger Ruge answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Tactical Resilience: Mental Preparedness for Peak Field Performance (Part 1). Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Creating a Continuum Ecosystem of Crisis Response. Q&A with BJ Wagner

Webinar presenter BJ Wagner answered a number of your questions after her presentation Creating a Continuum Ecosystem of Crisis Response: It's Not Either-Or. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: Beyond Self-Care – The CE-CERT Model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout. Q&A with Dr. Michael Gomez

Webinar presenter Dr. Michael Gomez answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Beyond Self Care: The CE-CERT Model for Secondary Trauma and Burnout. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Creating a Culture of Wellness. Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Creating a Culture of WellnessL Increasing Retention, Morale, and Employee Health by Infusing Wellness into Your Agency. [...]

Kind Words from our Members

Awww, Nicole, you made us blush. Thank you for your kind words! To learn more about our upcoming webinars, click here. To learn how to become [...]

After the Webinar: Resilience Tools – Ideas for People Who Have Stories. Q&A with the Panelists

Webinar presenters Wendy Hummell, Darren Ivey and Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Resilience Tools: Ideas for People Who Have Stories. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Managing Trauma Triggers. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Managing Trauma Triggers. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: So, we had [...]

After the Webinar: Changing Culture and Climate with Spiritual Wellness. Q&A with Bobby Kipper

Webinar presenter Bobby Kipper answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Changing Agency Culture and Climate with Spiritual Wellness. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

Thoughts on Organizational Culture from Bobby Kipper

We loved this great reminder that Bobby Kipper shared during his webinar, "Changing Culture and Climate with Spiritual Wellness." "Culture sets climate. What you allow within your organization becomes [...]

After the Webinar: Human Performance Optimization – Caring for Your Team. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Joe Dulla and Mandy Nice answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Human Performance Optimization: Caring for Your Team. Here are just a few of their [...]

After the Webinar: Suicide Explained. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Suicide Explained: What Leads Someone to that Moment. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Blueprint for Resilience. Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Blueprint for Resilience: How to Reverse Engineer Burnout and Compassion Fatigue. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing Times. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Dr. Sara Metz, Nick Metz, Bill Walsh, Sammie Wicks, and Christine Johnson answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing [...]

Thoughts on Wellness from Nick Metz

Retired Chief Nick Metz and the presenters for the webinar, Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing times: What does it look like for officers, their families, and agencies, shared [...]

Thoughts on Organizational Health from Nick Metz

During the webinar, Officer Safety and Wellness in Rapidly Changing times: What does it look like for officers, their families, and agencies? Chief Nick Metz (ret) shared a fabulous acronym [...]

After the Webinar: How to Improve Your Sleep Hygiene and Reduce Your Fatigue. Q&A with Dr. Lois James

Webinar presenter Dr. Lois Jamees answered a number of your questions after her presentation, How to Improve Your Sleep Hygiene and Reduce Your Fatigue. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Intergenerational Trauma. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Intergenerational Trauma. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: Are there any books [...]

Thoughts about Humanness from Dr. Gabrielle Salfati

We, the country and our profession has been through SO much these last few years. That's why we just loved this gentle reminder from our webinar presenter, Dr. Gabrielle Salfati, [...]

After the Webinar: Coach or Critic? Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Coach or Critic: Implementing Strategies to Overcome Negativity Bias and Limiting Beliefs. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: 9988 and the Future of Crisis Response (part 2). Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters John Snook and BJ Wagner answered a number of your questions after their presentation, 988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know (part 2). [...]

After the Webinar: Demystifying Meditation and Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals. Q&A with Kim Colegrove

Webinar presenter Kim Colegrove answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Demystifying Meditation and Mindfulness for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: A Trusted Source of Mental Health Resources. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, A Trusted Source of Mental Health Resources. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Finding Your True North. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Finding Your True North: Letting Your Purpose Guide Your Career. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: Competency Restoration in Jails. Q&A with Dr. Amber Simpler

Webinar presenter Dr. Amber Simpler answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Competency Restoration in Jails: A Versatile Response to the Competency Crisis. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Critical Incident Stress Management for ACOs. Q&A with Adam Leath

Webinar presenter Adam Leath answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Critical Incident Stress Management for ACOs. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: There’s More to You than Your Career. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, There's More to You than Your Career: Finding Balance and Personal Identity. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Lessons on Compassionate Policing. Q&A with Joe Smarro

Webinar presenter Joe Smarro answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Lessons on Compassionate Policing from Joe Smarro of the HBO documentary ERNIE & JOE: CRISIS COPS. Here [...]

After the Webinar: 988 and the Future of Crisis Response. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters John Snook and Shannon Scully answered a number of your questions after their presentation, 988 and the Future of Crisis Response: What Criminal Justice Professionals Need to Know. Here [...]

After the Webinar: Digitizing the Handle with Care Process. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Todd Wagner, Chad Sullivan and Jennifer DeLett-Snyder answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Digitizing the Handle with Care Process. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Actively Caring for People. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Bobby Kipper and Dr. E Scott Geller answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Actively Caring for People: Lessons for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just [...]

After the Webinar: Facing the Mental and Emotional Impacts of this Work. Q&A with Kim Colegrove

Webinar presenter Kim Colegrove answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Facing the Mental and Emotional Impacts of this Work: Three Steps Justice Professionals and Their Spouses Can [...]

After the Webinar: Under Siege- The Psychological Impact on Law Enforcement in these Troubled Times. Q&A with Dr. Grant McDougall

Webinar presenter Dr. Grant McDougall answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Under Siege: The Psychological Impact on Law Enforcement in these Troubled Times. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Risk Assessment Tools for Legally Involved Youth. Q&A with Dr. Sandra Antoniak

Webinar presenter Dr. Sandra Antoniak answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Risk Assessment Tools for Legally Involved Youth. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Spiritual Wellness for Criminal Justice Professionals. Q&A with Bobby Kipper

Webinar presenter Bobby Kipper answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Spiritual Wellness for Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Improving Resilience in 5 Minutes a Day. Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Improving Resilience in 5 Minutes a Day. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Police Fatigue. Q&A with Dr. Lois James

Webinar presenter Dr. Lois James answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Police Fatigue: Strategies for Managing Fatigue and Promoting Sleep Health. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: The Secret behind Getting into Incredible Shape while Working Our Crazy Careers. Q&A with Marc Hildebrand

Webinar presenter Marc Hildebrand answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Secret behind Getting into Incredible Shape while Working Our Crazy Careers. Here are just a few [...]

After the Webinar: Long Term Coping Skills. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Long Term Coping Skills. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: Can long-term [...]

After the Webinar: Depression, Myths, Signs, Prevention and Treatment. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Amy Morgan and Dr. Stephen Odom answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Depression: Myths, Signs, Prevention and Treatment. Here are just a few of their [...]

After the Webinar: Understanding Compassion Fatigue for First Responders and Criminal Justice Professionals. Q&A with Wendy Hummell

Webinar presenter Wendy Hummell answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Understanding Compassion Fatigue for First Responders and Criminal Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: Preventing Jail Suicides – Issues We Don’t Talk about, But Should. Q&A with Dr. Lisa Boesky

Webinar presenter Dr. Lisa Boesky answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Preventing Jail Suicides: Issues We Don't Talk about, But Should. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: The Importance of Mental Tenacity in Policing. Q&A with Dr. Obed Magny

Webinar presenter Obed Magny answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Importance of Mental Tenacity in Policing. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Building Peer Support Programs for Prosecutors. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Hilary Weinberg and Jennifer Heisig answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Building Peer Support Programs for Prosecutors. Here are just a few of their responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Successful Mental Health Diversion Programs. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters John Snook, BJ Wagner, Dr. Margie Balfour and Shane Nolte answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Successful Mental Health Diversion Programs: What Law Enforcement Needs [...]

After the Webinar: Change and Acceptance: Why We Succeed, Why We Fail. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Change and Acceptance: Why We Succeed, Why We Fail. Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Outside Yourself – Making the Most of Mental Health Resources. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan from Academy Hour answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Outside Yourself: Making the Most of Mental Health Resources. Here are just a few [...]

Thoughts on Relationships from Dr. Kimberly Miller

Dr. Kimberly Miller shared a number of excellent insights and advice during her Ask Me Anything webinar, Maintaining Resilience. Here’s just one reminder she shared with our audiences. "[...]

After the Webinar: Life Saving Partners — 911 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Amy Morgan and Halcyon Frank answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Life-Saving Partners: 911 and Suicide Lifelines Working Together. Here are just a few of their [...]

After the Webinar: You Matter – Self Care for PIOs. Q&A with Katie Nelson

Webinar presenter Katie Nelson answered a number of your questions after her presentation, You Matter: Self Care for PIOs. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Co-Responder Programs. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters JC Adams, Dr. John Colburn, Karla Ramirez and Frank Webb answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Co-Responder Programs: Keys to Successful Implementation for Justice Professionals [...]

After the Webinar: Building Resiliency. Q&A with Brenda Dietzman

Webinar presenter Brenda Dietzman answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Building Resiliency: The Dawn of the Mentally Strong Employee. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Job Satisfaction – An Evidence based Approach. Q&A with Dr Obed Magny

Webinar presenter Dr. Obed Magny answered a number of your questions after his presentation Job Satisfaction: An Evidence-Based Approach to Improving Morale and Reducing Stress with the Employees in Your [...]

After the Webinar: Post Critical Incident Seminar. Q&A with the Panelists

Webinar presenters Andy Carrier, John McGuire, Kit Cummings, Rita Watkins, and Rev. Eric Skidmore answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Post Critical Incident Seminar: A Tested Solution [...]

After the Webinar: School Guardian Programs. Q&A with Dr. Grant McDougall

Webinar presenter Dr. Grant McDougall answered a number of your questions after his presentation School Guardian Programs: A Psychological Perspective. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: An Occupational Risk. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Dr. Jeff Thompson and Kevin Morison answered a number of your questions after their presentation, An Occupational Risk: What Law Enforcement Agencies Can Do to Prevent Officer Suicide. [...]

After the Webinar: Post Critical Incident Seminar. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Rev. Eric Skidmore and Dr. Joseph Cheng answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Post Critical Incident Seminar: What You Can Do When Things Aren't [...]

In Case You Missed It: Video Snippet from Suicide by Cop

Shelly Katkowski shared some insightful information during her webinar, Suicide by Cop: Protocols and Training Guide. Here’s just one snippet from the show. Click Here to Watch [...]

After the Webinar: The Contagiousness of Vicarious Trauma. Q&A with Dr. Obed Magny

Webinar presenter Dr. Obed Magny answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Contagiousness of Vicarious Trauma. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Cumulative Trauma. Q&A with Dr. Grant McDougall

Webinar presenter Dr. Grant McDougall answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Cumulative Trauma: The Covert Enemy of First Responders. Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Suicide Screening and Triage Systems for Juvenile Detention Centers. Q&A with Greg Handleton

Webinar presenter Greg Handleton answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Suicide Screening and Triage Systems for Juvenile Detention Centers. Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Challenge Yourself to Change Your Life. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Challenge Yourself to Change Your Life. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Leadership on the Front Lines. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Dr. Kimberly Miller, Tina Buneta, Joseph Hoebeke, Doreen Jokerst, Justin Smith, William Beck, and Jack Cauley answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Leadership on the [...]

After the Webinar: Standards of Care – Mental Health in Our Jails and Prisons. Q&A with Jim Martin

Webinar presenter Jim Martin answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Standards of Care: Mental Health in Our Jails and Prisons. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Standards of Care for Mental Health in Our Jails & Prisons. Q&A with Jim Martin

Webinar presenter NCCHC's Jim Martin answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Standards of Care: Mental Health in Our Jails and Prisons...Now What? Here are just a [...]

Thoughts about Growth from Amy Morgan

Amy Morgan shared some fantastic insights and advice about recovery, trauma and growth during her webinar, Growth as a Post Trauma Response. Here's just one reminder. "Growth can only [...]

A Reminder about Needing Each Other from Amy Morgan

Amy Morgan shared some fantastic insights and advice about recovery, trauma and growth during her webinar, Growth as a Post Trauma Response. Here's just one reminder. "Sometimes we need [...]

Reminders about Making Progress from Dr. Kimberly Miller

Dr. Kimberly Miller shared a number of excellent insights and advice during her Resiliency series, Increasing Your Bounceability: Ways to Build Resilience Every Day, and Part 2, More Ways to Bounce [...]

Advice about Doing Your Best from Dr. Kimberly Miller

Reminders about Hope from Dr. Kimberly Miller

Thoughts on Transforming Your Life from Dr. Kimberly Miller

After the Webinar: More Ways to Bounce & Build Your Resilience. Q&A with Dr. Kimberly Miller

Webinar presenter Dr. Kimberly Miller answered a number of your questions after her presentation, More Ways to Bounce and Build Your Resilience. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

Insights into Caring ACOs from Nina Stively

Animal welfare professionals care tremendously for the animals they are sworn to protect and the owners whom they are there to help educate and inform. We loved this quote shared [...]

After the Webinar: Saving Money While Saving Lives. Q&A with Daniel McDonald

Webinar presenter Daniel McDonald answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Saving Money while Saving Lives: Building a Business Case for a Homeless Outreach Team. Here are just [...]

After the Webinar: Increasing Your Bounceability. Q&A with Dr. Kimberly Miller

Webinar presenter Dr. Kimberly Miller answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Increasing Your Bounceability: Ways to Build Resilience Every Day. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: COVID 19 & Corrections – Enhancing Resiliency of Staff and Inmate Populations. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Dr. Babatunde Okuleye, Dr. Robin Timme and Dr. Jennifer Horney answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Corrections & COVID-19: Enhancing Resiliency of Staff and Inmate [...]

After the Webinar: Suicide Explained. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Suicide Explained: What Leads Someone to that Moment. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Maintaining Mental Wellness of Staff and Inmates during Custodial Pandemonium. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Dr. Robin Timme, Dr. Jennifer Horney, Scott Semple and Elias Diggins answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Corrections & COVID-19: Maintaining Mental Wellness of Staff [...]

Thoughts about Identity from Dr Jeff Fox, PhD

Dr. Jeff Fox, PhD gave us a super reminder about the importance of understanding who you are and how that affects what you do every day during his webinar, "Creating [...]

After the Webinar: Pre-Prevention – Staying Ahead of the Struggle. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Pre-Prevention: Staying Ahead of the Struggle. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

After the Webinar: Stepping Up 101. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Rise Haneberg, Sheriff Kelly Rowe and Sheriff Calvin Hayden answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Stepping Up 101: A Primer for Sheriffs. Here are just a [...]

After the Webinar: Growth as Post Trauma Response. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Growth as a Post Trauma Response. Here are just a few of her responses. Audience Comment: Why [...]

After the Webinar: Causes and Conditions of Childhood Trauma. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Causes and Conditions of Childhood Trauma: A Practical Approach for Justice Professionals. Here are just a few [...]

Thoughts on Mental Health Treatment from Kelly Rowe

Inmates with mental illnesses are a substantial part of the incarcerated population, as Sheriff Kelly Rowe reminded us during his webinar, Stepping Up: A Primer for Sheriffs. Click [...]

Thoughts on Growth from Amy Morgan

Love this great reminder from Amy Morgan during her webinar, Growth as a Post Trauma Response. "Growth only happens through change." Click Here to See Our Law Enforcement [...]

Infographic: Successful Re-Entry through Contemporary, Moral, Holistic and Life Skills Programming

During their webinar, Cheryl Parks, Ron Budzinski, and Charles Keeton shared insights about Jobs Partnership Re-Entry Program at the Peoria County Jail, in Peoria, Illinois. This 60-day program creates a [...]

After the Webinar: Fixing Incentives that Force Sheriffs to be Mental Health Providers. Q&A with John Snook

Webinar presenter John Snook answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Fixing the Incentives that Force Sheriffs to be Mental Health Providers. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Watch Your Six Part 2. Q&A with Jonathan Parker

Webinar presenter Jonathan Parker answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Watch Your Six Part 2. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: Jonathan you [...]

After the Webinar: Watch Your Six Part 1. Q&A with Jonathan Parker

Webinar presenter Jonathan Parker answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Watch Your Six: Because Making It Home Is Just the Beginning. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Therapy K9’s. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Jason Ratcliff, Darrah Metz, and Dr. Kimberly Miller answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Therapy K9s: Changing the Way Law Enforcement Reaches Their Communities. [...]

After the Webinar: Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System. Q&A with Dan Phillips

Webinar presenter Dr. Dan Phillips answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Mental Illness in the Criminal Justice System. Here are just a few of his responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Top 10 Reasons to Start a Police Homeless Outreach Team. Q&A with Daniel McDonald

Webinar presenter Dan McDonald answered a number of your questions after his presentation, The Top 10 Reasons to Start a Police Homeless Outreach Team. Here are just a few of [...]

After the Webinar: Mental Health Concepts and Trafficking. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Mental Health Concepts, and Human Trafficking. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: Policing Vulnerable Populations. Q&A with Jason Winsky

Webinar presenter Jason Winsky answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Policing Vulnerable Populations: Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Programs. Here are just a few of his [...]

After the Webinar: Beyond CIT. Q&A with Jason Winsky

Webinar presenter Jason Winsky answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Beyond CIT: Establishing Mental Health Support Teams. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

After the Webinar: A Daily Drop of Corrosion. Q&A with Dr. Rich Martin

Webinar presenter Dr. Rich Martin answered a number of your questions after his presentation, A Daily Drop of Corrosion: How the Daily Experiences of Justice Professionals Can Lead to Burnout. [...]

After the Webinar: Mindfulness in Domestic Violence Work. Q&A with Sara Mahoney

Webinar presenter Sara Mahoney answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Mindfulness in Domestic Violence Work: Part 2- Working with Offenders. Here are just a few of her [...]

After the Webinar: Protecting the Protector. Q&A with Dr. Peggy Rothbaum

Webinar presenter Dr. Peggy Rothbaum answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Protecting the Protector: Who's Taking Care of You? Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Developing a Peer Support Program. Q&A with Alana Negroni

Webinar presenter Alana Negroni answered a number of your questions after her presentation, The Benefits of Developing a Peer Support Program. Here are just a few of her responses. [...]

Infographic: Being Trauma Informed in a Corrections Environment

During his webinar, Dr. Robin Timme shared impactful insights about the prevalence of trauma in the histories of those who are incarcerated as well as those who work in correctional [...]

After the Webinar: Trauma Informed Jails. Q&A with Dr. Robin Timme

Webinar presenter Dr. Robin Timme answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Trauma-Informed Jails: Incorporating Wellness for Correctional Officers. Here are just a few of his responses. [...]

After the Webinar: Trauma Informed Care & Response. Q&A with Denise Beagley

Webinar presenter Denise Beagley answered a number of your questions after her presentation, Trauma Informed Care & Response: 101 Training for Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Self Care for Justice Professionals. Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Self Care for Justice Professionals. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience Question: Are [...]

After the Webinar: The Neurobiology and Traumatic Impact of Sexual Assault. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Victoria Riechers and Lindsay Ashworth of the Arizona Coalition to End Sexual and Domestic Violence answered a number of your questions after their presentation, The Neurobiology and Traumatic [...]

After the Webinar: Suicide Identification, Prevention and Policy Failure. Q&A with Dr. John Peters

Webinar presenter Dr. John Peters answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Suicide Identification, Prevention, and Policy Failure. Here are just a few of his responses. Audience [...]

Sleep After Trauma: How traumatic events impact sleep and well-being

One in 5 American adults will experience mental illness in a given year, and about half of the American population will have a diagnosable mental illness at some point in their [...]

Sleep and PTSD: Common Sleep Problems Veterans and other PTSD Sufferers Face

The term Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, commonly referred to as PTSD, was coined in 1980 by the American Psychological Association when it formally became recognized as a diagnosable condition after the [...]

INFOGRAPHIC: Balancing Order & Recovery in Correctional Environments

Falcon, Inc's Harmony Goorley and Dr. David Stephens shared some incredible information about trauma in incarceration settings during the webinar, "Balancing Order & Recovery: Blueprints for a High-Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jail." [...]

After the Webinar: Balancing Order & Recovery. Q&A with the Presenter

Webinar presenter Harmony Goorley and Dr. David Stephens from Falcon, Inc answered a number of your questions after the presentation, “Balancing Order & Recovery: Blueprints for a High-Performing, Trauma Resilient [...]

Thoughts on Respecting the Individual from Dr. David Stephens

Dr. David Stephens made some excellent points during the webinar, Balancing Order and Recovery: Blueprints for a High Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jail. Here's one we thought was particularly important. “We can [...]

Thought on Inmate Trauma from Harmony Goorley

We loved this statement Harmony Goorley made during her webinar, Balancing Order and Recovery: Blueprints for a High Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jail about the importance of inmate wellness. “When inmates feel [...]

Thoughts on Inmate Wellness from Harmony Goorley

We loved this statement Harmony Goorley made during her webinar, Balancing Order and Recovery: Blueprints for a High Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jail about the correlation between staff and inmate wellness. “Our [...]

Thoughts on Staff Safety from Harmony Goorley

Trauma Informed Jails: An Interview with Dr. Robin Timme

Christina McCale

We know that most inmates have some level of trauma in their background. But what about your correctional officers? Correctional officers have some of the highest levels of stress of [...]

Blueprints for High-Performing, Trauma-Resilient Jails: An Interview with the Presenters

Christina McCale

From child abuse and emotional abuse, to witnessing the horrors of what adults can do to each other, trauma is a major part of an inmate’s history and psychological [...]

After the Webinar: The Impact of an Officer Involved Shooting. Q&A with Alana Negroni

Webinar presenter Alana Negroni of The Counselling Team International answered a number of your questions after her presentation, “The Impact of an Officer Involved Shooting.” Here are a few of [...]

Thoughts on Trauma from Amy Morgan

We loved this quote Amy Morgan made during her webinar, The Trauma of First Response to Cruelty. "People who care more, hurt more." Click Here to Watch [...]

After the Webinar: The Trauma of First Response to Cruelty. Q&A with Amy Morgan

Webinar presenter Amy Morgan answered a number of your questions after her presentation, The Trauma of First Response to Cruelty. Here are a few of her responses. Audience Question: [...]

In Case You Missed It: A Snippet from A Duty to Protect

Carrie Hill of the National Sheriffs Association shared some incredible insights and advice during her webinar, “A Duty to Protect: Mental Health Care to the Incarcerated.” Here’s just one [...]

After the Webinar: A Duty to Protect. Q&A with NSA’s Carrie Hill

Webinar presenter Carrie Hill answered a number of your questions after her presentation, “A Duty to Protect: Mental Health Care to the Incarcerated." Here are a few of her responses. &[...]

After the Webinar: Keeping Your Super Heroes Super. Q&A with Dr. Kimberly Miller

Webinar presenter Dr. Kimberly Miller answered a number of your questions after her presentation, "Keeping Your Super Heroes Super." Here are a few of her responses. Audience Question: Our [...]

After the Webinar: Recipes for Controlling the Emotional Hijack. Q&A with Harmony Goorley

Webinar presenters Harmony Goorley answered a number of your questions after her presentation, "Recipes for Controlling the Emotional Hijack." Here are a few of her responses. [...]

Managing Public Criticism: An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

Whether it's a schoolyard bully or trolls on Twitter, no one likes being harrassed. And while, yes, Taylor Swift might be right that "the haters gonna hate," that often doesn't [...]

Insights from our Speaker, Dr. Ed Sherman

Love this reference Dr. Ed Sherman made during his recent webinar, The Power of Resilient Leadership. Be sure to check out his recording for more insights and great resources. "Surprises [...]

The Power of Resilient Leadership: An Interview with Dr. Ed Sherman

Christina McCale

Today's public safety professionals face incredible challenges: from life and death situations to agitated citizens, from on-going public scrutiny to ever-changing laws, and rising expectations. Perhaps one of the biggest [...]

After the Webinar: Creating an Organizational Culture of Wellness. Q&A with the Presenters

Webinar presenters Matthew Kail and Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after their presentation, Creating a CulturOrganizationaloinal Wellness. Here are some of their responses. Audience Question: Do [...]

Shift Work Sleep Disorders: How they can affect you

In the United States, shift work is defined as any regular work schedule that falls outside the standard work day of 9am to 5pm. Shift work includes swing shifts, which [...]

Creating a Culture of Organizational Wellness: An Interview with and Lt. Matthew Kail and Duane Bowers

Christina McCale

Those who strive to protect the Internet's youngest victims face incredible challenges - and can bear tremendous emotional tolls. Knowing this, many ICACs create support and wellness programs to give [...]

VIDEO: Emotional Support for Mass Casualty Survivors: An Interview with Duane Bowers

Duane T. Bowers, LPC

Christina McCale

Once the police tape is gone, what are the best ways to support survivors of traumatic events, like Mass Casualty Shootings? Check out our interview with trauma care expert and [...]

After the Webinar: Providing Wellness Support for Online Child Exploitation Personnel – Q&A with Duane Bowers

Webinar presenter Duane Bowers answered a number of your questions after his presentation, Providing Wellness Support for Online Child Exploitation Personnel. Here are some of his responses. Audience [...]

What Cops Need to Know about Drug Users to Stay Safe: An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

First responders have to be prepared to interact with and deal with such a variety of individuals and situations, but one of the most unpredictable is engaging with those under [...]

Ambiguous Loss: The Impact of Missing Persons on Victims, Advocates and Justice System Personnel. An Interview with Duane Bowers

Christina McCale

It's incomprehensible the grief a family must feel when one of its members has gone missing. But often we forget that the justice professionals who work a missing persons case [...]

Motivational Interviewing for Coaching and Supervision: An Interview with Denise Beagley

Christina McCale

When most people hear the term "motivational interviewing," they typically think of how counselors or psychologists engage with patients in a clinical setting. But motivational interviewing is a flexible communication [...]

Tough break, Cupcake! Suck it up, Buttercup! Can you help tough cookies deal with crisis?

Amy Morgan

Ask a 4-year-old boy who he knows that most closely resembles a super-hero, and he will often shout out, “My DAD!” with great pride. I remember my own Dad, when [...]

Recognizing Mental Health Disorders in Others – An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

People use terms like "psychopath" or "manic" or "depressed" to describe others - often forgetting that these are actually mental health terms with real definitions and diagnoses. But how do [...]

Providing Wellness Support for Online Child Exploitation Personnel: An Interview with Duane Bowers

Christina McCale

Viewing images of child exploitation is nothing short of disturbing. But what if it was your job to find and remove images of children being harmed.... all day. Every day...? [...]

BOLO: Being on the Lookout to Preventing Police Suicide – An Interview with Marcia Williams

Christina McCale

We continue our conversation with Marcia Williams, peer support specialist with Safe Call Now, to learn more about this organization and its unique network of services it provides to public [...]

How Safe Call Now Serves and Supports First Responders

Christina McCale

According to Badge of Life, "More cops die of suicide than are killed by gunfire and traffic accidents combined."And while there may be discussions or debate about the [...]

Advanced Suicide Prevention, Intervention & PostVention: an Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

The statistics about suicide rates among our justice professionals is just astonishing: According to the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance, Suicides among firefighters exceeded the number of deaths in the line-of-duty [...]

Unique Support for First Responders: An Interview with Sally Spencer Thomas

Christina McCale

Losing anyone to suicide is tragic. But losing a first responder represents a unique tragedy: someone who has spent their career putting others first, risking their life to save others [...]

Basic Suicide Prevention, Intervention & Postvention: An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

Asking for help isn't easy for many people - but it can be especially difficult for first responders. Join webinar presenter, Amy Morgan, director of Academy Hour, to learn: How [...]

Staying Strong in a Challenging Environment: An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

First responders and professionals in the justice/public safety see a lot -- and deal with a lot. First responders see the horrors of situations. Police officers see the worst [...]

Providing Support to First Responders: An Interview with Karen Solomon of 1st Alliance

Christina McCale

According to Badge of Life, a police suicide prevention program, 108 Law Enforcement Officers took their own lives in 2016. While this does show a decline, this may not be all-inclusive, nor [...]

Recovering from Mass Casualty Response/ Post Action Debriefing: An Interview with Amy Morgan

Christina McCale

Working in law enforcement, while incredibly rewarding, can at times also be equally stressful. And then, there’s events like the Pulse Nightclub Shooing in Orlando. Or Virginia Tech. Or [...]

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