Although the Department contracted mental health services, the services contracted were merely an incident response short term service.  We have now increased the service contract to include: Incident Response Counseling, On-going Counseling, and Pre-Retirement Counseling.  The following is a breakdown of services:

• 24/7/365 Critical Incident Stress Management Consultation and Response, to include:
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefings
  • Crisis Management Debriefings
  • On-Site Response and Consultation
• Short-Term Individual Intervention
  • 3-5 Crisis Intervention Sessions
• On-going training, oversight of PEER Support Team
  • Quarterly Peer Support Training
  • Department Critical Incident Support Training

ADDED benefits:

• Ongoing Consulting and Crisis Intervention Counseling Services
• Up to 5 hours of service may be provided to an employee per quarter
• Additional hours may be authorized
• 3 Session Pre-Retirement outboarding counseling
• 10 sessions per year for family members
• Spouse day to learn about Wellness and affects of the job.

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Additional training has been added to Continuous Professional Training for all employees, to include:

• 03/2022 (5 hours) Intermediate Mindfulness and Stress Management 
• 02/2022 (12 hours) Wellness, to include:
  • PEER Support Introduction
  • Police Chaplaincy Services/Death Notifications
  • Financial Wellness
  • Health and Fitness
  • Mindfulness Introduction
  • Sleep Presentation
  • Kevlar for the Mind
• 11/2021 (1 hour) Pandemic to Protest by Psychological Services Group