Program · all staff · 8 hours
Pressure & Resilience
Most mental-health hours are a slideshow people sit through to satisfy a requirement. This course teaches skills people can use on the next call and the next night home, and it's built so the agency can submit it for mental-health continuing-education credit.
The body and the story
What stress does to perception, fine motor control, and memory, and why the story you tell yourself afterward matters as much as the call. Includes tactical breathing, which has been shown to improve performance in critical-incident simulations, and naming.
A feeling is a witness
Dread, anger, and numbness after hard calls: how to feel them fully without letting them write your conclusions. Putting a feeling on the stand, and the difference between the loud thing (a crisis) and the flat thing (burnout).
The Invisible Coat
The "I'm good" officer. Recognizing it in yourself and a partner, what to say, and when and how to hand off to peer support, EAP, or a clinician. The only rule: don't carry it alone in a dark room.
Getting home
Sleep and shift work, the decompression drive, taking the command voice off before the driveway, and a personal defense plan for alcohol and the other quiet exits.
One day or four sessions
Run as one 8-hour day, or four 2-hour blocks repeated across shifts so nights get the same content as days.
Mental-health hours
Packaged for submission to your state's training council, for agencies in states that require annual mental-health hours.
Grant-eligible
Wellness training is an eligible use for the DOJ COPS Office's Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act (LEMHWA) grants.