public safety agencies
a holistic approach to mental wellness
A major focus of my professional work is promoting first responder wellness by assisting public safety agencies in the creation and implementation of effective mental wellness programs. In addition to providing agencies with programming for their at-risk personnel, I strongly believe in the importance of proactively approaching mental wellness by designing resources intended to keep high-functioning, healthy personnel healthy. My approach is holistic in that I integrate prevention, early (at-risk) intervention, and crisis intervention resources to ensure an agency’s wellness programming targets the needs of all their personnel.
It’s important to remember that mental wellness programming is not “one size fits all”, and there are many factors that determine the best fitting curriculum such as the type of agency, it’s size and location, and it’s budget. Therefore, I customize my services for each agency and their unique needs. I have experience serving a variety of public safety agencies, including wildland and structure fire, law enforcement, EMS, and dispatch.
services
Please see below for a list of services I commonly provide for agencies across the country. This list is not exhaustive and I can provide a range of customized services for your specific agency. I encourage you to reach out to see how I might be able to help you.
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Presentations can be customized and designed for a variety of mental wellness topics and audiences. Examples of common topics I present on include:
-Trauma and posttraumatic stress injury
-Suicide intervention and prevention
-Building resiliency
-Moral injury
-Emotional intelligence
-Sleep
-Stress management
-Balancing work and family
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Peer support programs are a vital foundation for preserving wellness in every agency. I meet agencies where they are and help them develop peer support teams that are both effective and highly utilized by personnel. Whether you are an agency hoping to build a peer support program from the ground up and don’t know where to start, or you’re an agency with a peer support program already in place and are feeling stuck about where to go from here, I am ready and able to help.
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I’m trained in critical incident response and debriefing and can provide these services to agencies anywhere in the U.S. My approach prioritizes meeting the personnel involved in the incident where they’re at. I focus on normalizing common reactions, providing information and resources, and increasing cohesion.
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Annual wellness visits are an essential component of a proactive wellness program at any agency. I work with agency leaders to customize wellness visits to their unique needs, including:
1) Who attends the visits.
2) How often the visits occur.
3) How to optimize utilization of visits.
4) How to schedule and confidentially track attendance at visits.