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Trainings and resources for members of your department, including in-service trainings on resiliency, positive stress management, and learned optimism can help to build a healthy workforce.
Ongoing in-service training and education should be offered to employees to promote overall wellness. Training about mental health can be viewed as an opportunity for primary prevention. In particular, as part of both a proactive and reactive response to employee mental health wellness, agencies should consider resiliency training. Resilience is the capacity to prepare for, adapt to, and recover from stress, adversity, and trauma. The good news for all of us is that resilience is very much a learned pattern of feelings, thoughts, and behaviors, and what is learnable is very often also teachable.
Resiliency training can help foster adaptive coping mechanisms that help individuals bounce back from negative life events. Agencies can take a proactive approach to resiliency by including training to new employees during the academy or new employee training, or to existing employees during routine training. Resiliency training can also be reactive, delivered to employees following critical incidents or in the face of extraordinary life stressors, such as the death of a loved one or marital discord.
As a result, proper resiliency programming can help law enforcement officers and firefighters develop a set of practical skills that can be applied in a number of situations to help strengthen stress tolerance and coping ability. Proper resiliency training programs can reduce problems with stress, trauma, anxiety, and depression, and improve overall well-being and optimism.
Your next step
You’ll need to do some research to learn what resiliency training best fits for your organization. Below are some resources you may find helpful.
Here are courses and resources that your department can consider:
- Shield of Resilience Training Course
- This is a free online mental health course created by the federal Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) for law enforcement officers.
- MnFIRE Emotional Wellness Training
- This training from the Minnesota Firefighter Initiative (MnFIRE) is offered both online and in the classroom. It offers discussion, practical information, and resources for your department.
- “Building Your Resilience”
- This article is from the American Psychological Association.
- Minnesota National Alliance on Mental Illness
- League of Minnesota Cities Patrol Wellness Training Courses