Finding Balance as a First Responder Spouse
Let’s be honest. The first responder job encourages a one income household. Unpredictable Hours: Working as a police spouse or fire spouse is a huge challenge because a police officer…
Let’s be honest. The first responder job encourages a one income household. Unpredictable Hours: Working as a police spouse or fire spouse is a huge challenge because a police officer…
We honor and remember all the officers we lost in 2019, including those we lost to suicide. At the time of this writing, the verified law enforcement officer suicides number…
WASHINGTON, December 12, 2019—The Federal Communications Commission today started the process of designating 988 as a new, nationwide, 3-digit number for a suicide prevention and mental health crisis hotline. This…
Well… 911 calls don’t stop for the holidays. If anything, calls increase! We have made it to the start of the Holiday season: Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas, New years… what’s your…
Agency endorsed Peer Support and Critical Incident Stress Management Teams are often overlooked until tragedy necessitates their existence and utilization. As a law enforcement leader, ask yourself if your agency…
California passed Assembly Bill No. 1117 (AB 1117) into legislation which sets guidelines for law enforcement agencies to set up Peer Support and Crisis Referral Services Programs. What’s important to…
Roseville, CALIF. (November 1, 2019) – Capital Edge and Cordico are pleased to announce they have formed a strategic partnership in strong support of first responder wellness. Financial security is…
This is the transcript of the North State Public Radio‘s Sarah Bohannon interview with Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea. Sheriff Honea candidly discusses the challenges that repeated trauma has on…
I can still vividly remember reciting the Navy’s Leadership Principles by memory while my squad leader was inches from my face during freshmen orientation for the Navy ROTC program at the University…
Idaho State Police (ISP) Director, Colonel Kedrick Wills, launched the Idaho State Police Wellness App on October 18, 2019 to provide his Troopers, ISP employees and their families with the…
San Francisco – The California Peer-Run Warm Line officially opened today, offering free non-emergency emotional support and referrals to anyone in the state via telephone or instant messaging. This service…
SACRAMENTO – Governor Gavin Newsom today signed into law three bills that focus on improving protections for California’s workers around mental health and post-traumatic stress for the state’s firefighters and first…
Editor’s note: If you or someone you know is considering suicide, call the U.S. National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-TALK (8255) or visit suicidepreventionlifeline.org. By now you’re probably aware that September is…
The Carson J Spencer Foundation, in partnership with the International Association of Chiefs of Police, National Action Alliance for Suicide Prevention, and the American Association of Suicidology, launched a video…
The primary mission for first responder Chaplains is to provide practical, emotional and spiritual support for our first responders in their time of need. Our secondary mission is to support…