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Minding the Badge™ raises the bar on mental health training in public safety by focusing on preemptive measures of avoiding crisis, rather than simply waiting to respond when crisis occurs.
Traditional measures like Peer Support Teams and CISM offer valid benefit to the culture of first responders, but they tend to be utilized as responses to mental health issues already present. Both have been used in law enforcement for over 40 years, while the crisis of stress, trauma, addiction, divorce, and suicide have remained relatively the same. Clearly we must do more and the answer is to shift the culture from a focus on crisis response to one of crisis avoidance.
The answer is two-fold: 1) preemptive training that teaches first responders principles of self-awareness and self-regulation, and 2) focused outreach to the marriage & family of first responders, which is proven by valid research to influence the mental health of the culture.
PREEMPTIVE TRAINING
Why wait for a crisis to train for one when you can learn strategies proven by science to build resiliency against future crisis?
More than 700 peer reviewed published studies conclude that professions with high risk of mental and physical adversity are shown to reduce that risk through the preemptive measures we teach in our training. From Olympic athletes, to Fortune 500 executives, resiliency training has become a standard because it works.
We believe its use in public safety is long overdue, so we spent nearly 8 years developing one of the most effective preemptive resiliency training programs in North America, focusing on Core Resiliency (mental, physical, and spiritual), and Preemptive Suicide Intervention.
