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This course is designed to empower first responders with knowledge and tools needed to improve overall mental and physical well-being. We will discuss nutrition, movement, self-care strategies, and wellness techniques to offset the health implications of high stress as a first responder.
In this course, Dr. Mike Pittaro discusses stress, work-life balance, and negative coping strategies and how officers can break those negative cycles. He will explain the negative effects of cortisol and techniques to reduce stress and increase both physical and mental wellness.
This course covers financial planning as it applies to law enforcement, including common mistakes and how to avoid them. Over the course of two hours, Bob Harris and Travis George discuss the importance of a sound financial plan and the necessary tools for comprehensive financial management.
Discuss how to set smart health & wellness goals, using the SMART acronym for setting realistic, achievable goals. For more training on this topic, view course “Watch Your Six”.
Review the six areas of health and wellness that can either cause us serious personal issues or help us be successful in our career and lives. For more training on this topic, view course “Watch Your Six".
There is a saying in law enforcement, “Practice officer safety; make sure you go home at the end of your shift.” However, making it home is just the beginning. “Watch Your Six: Mental Wellness Resiliency” encourages and equips all law enforcement officers and their families to guard the six most vulnerable areas of life to promote health and well-being. The course talks about the issues facing law enforcement to create awareness of the problems and to offer officers resources needed to ensure every part of their lives is healthy.
Consider the ways a department can improve its mental health and create a culture that is open about psychological wellness.
Wellness can be defined as “the state of being in good physical, emotional, social, spiritual and intellectual health, especially as an actively pursued goal." Police literature related to wellness tends to focus on what needs to do be done within a broad mental or physical scope to minimize the threat of injury or death among law enforcement officers of all ranks. These dimensions are made up of five “domains” which are critical to surviving the cumulative effect of living the police life. Getting too far out of balance in these domains damages our overall wellness and can increase our risk for injury, on-duty death, and suicide.
Hiring the right fit and preparing those employees for a lifelong journey in mental and physical wellness in this profession and beyond is the foundation of this course. It contains tools to assist the 9-1-1 professional in managing vicarious trauma and the importance of deploying these resources in daily life.
This course explores the many issues and problems police officers commonly face with stress in their careers. The first hour outlines the traps into which many officers fall, the difference between stress and trauma, and how critical incidents and cumulative stress can shorten a career. In the second hour, students will learn several easy steps by which they can avoid the impacts of chronic stress.