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MINDING THE BADGE MENTAL HEALTH
 
Minding the Badge™ mental health provides highly relevant training to first responders that focuses on reaching them where they are with authentic self-help skills that are proven to work effectively in the following areas:

Resiliency Training
We teach updated evidence-based methods and disciplines of the mind, body, and spirit that have been proven to reduce the threat of mental injuries among first responders. These courses cover Pre-trauma, Suicide, and Overall Qualify of Life Preservation. The mind has an immune system just like the body, and we teach how anyone can boost the effectiveness of the mental immune system to stave off injury and infection of the mind.

Assessment & Intervention
Protecting yourself is about checking yourself. We teach self-assessment strategies that are easy to learn but have massive impact on long-term mental health. In order to help your peers, you must put the oxygen mask on first. Staying stable and resilient against compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and overall burnout is key. 

Further instruction on peer assessment and intervention--how do you know if a peer is suicidal and what level of intervention do you use? What are evidence-based methods that reduce suicidal influence in any department?

Post-Recovery 
Does your city or agency have a protocol in place in the event of a line of duty death? What about a suicide? There are viable strategies you can have in place in either event that will best increase the odds of your department and family survivors working through the ordeal in healthy and cathartic way that reduces the chances of lingering depression or post-traumatic stress.

Outreach Development & Longevity

This training falls into the area of helping departments start a program that will stick--one that will take flight and stay flying in its effectiveness. The programs our training specialize in are Peer Support, CISM, and Suicide Outreach programs. If your department struggles to have a functional peer support team, consider forming a regional team--we can help you!


Mind, Body, Spirit

Our mental health is impacted by three primary areas: Mind, Body, and Spirit. Each of these play a significant role in our overall mental health and it should be the goal of any first responder to achieve some stability and balance between the three.

Mind
For anyone who wants to change their life, they must first begin by changing their mind. Our training of the mind begins with simple rules that will be guideposts along the way. We teach small adjustments that have a big influence in the long run. 

Body
What are common nutritional deficiencies in first responders that make them more susceptible to post-traumatic stress, depression, or suicide? What are three simple dietary adjustments they can make that will raise their mental and physical health? 

Spirit
Regardless of personal beliefs, everyone has had questions about their spiritual self--that invisible consciousness that makes up who we really are. Is God real? Where is He during trauma or depression? Studies show that people experiencing depression have natural questions about God and matters of the spirit, especially if trauma or suicide is an influence. We train first responders to address these questions in their journey, even if they don't believe in God. Mental health is missing a major component if we don't address the role of the spiritual.

HOW DOES MINDING THE BADGE MENTAL HEALTH WORK?
MINDING THE BADGE™ MENTAL HEALTH CONFERENCES

Minding the Badge™ mental health training conferences provide training with real world application to first responders. Our focus is on resiliency and preparation, using newer methods that have been shown to be easy to learn and immediately useful. We focus less on the problems and spend more time on solutions. 

Our conferences address the most common mental health challenges among Law Enforcement, Fire Rescue, EMS, Corrections, and 911 Dispatchers, such as post-traumatic stress, depression, suicide, addiction, accumulative stress, career burnout, and marriage & family, 

All of our speakers and instructors are former first responders or mental health professionals who work with first responders, some of whom speak from personal experience as survivors of post-traumatic stress and suicidal influences.


NOTE: Police attendees will be eligible for TCOLE credits (Crisis Training/Peer Support 3844)



DEPARTMENT TRAINING

For a more focused and personal training experience, private departmental training seminarscan be arranged for either individual departments or multiple departments that share location and costs. We work with any size department and train police, fire, EMS, corrections, and 911 dispatchers.





MARRIAGE & FAMILY RETREATS

Whether you want to improve and preserve a happy marriage & family life, or address some current obstacles and room for improvement, our Minding the Marriage retreats provide a scenic and interactive weekend of therapy that features presentations by marriage & family therapists who are former first responders or spouses of first responders, along with other couples options like Equine Therapy. We even have activities for the children, making this a true full family retreat.
PEER SUPPORT NETWORKING LUNCHEONS

The goal of our Peer Support Networking Luncheons is to bring together peer support teams from across the region to hear what other peer support leaders are doing and what challenges they are facing. Whether a department is desiring to start a peer support program, or working to improve an existing one, this FREE luncheon is a chance to learn and be inspired by others doing the same.



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