Available Training
When the Threat Follows Us Home: Law Enforcement PTSD & Suicide
My LEO Wellness works tirelessly to accomplish our mission through a grassroots effort promoting awareness for officer mental wellness, PTSD, and suicide prevention through education. We strive to distribute crucial information to officers, their families, friends, supervisors, administration, and communities with the hopes of saving a life, assuring officers that they are not alone.
Our 8-hour in-person training course is designed as law enforcement continuing education, but is also available to emergency dispatchers, agency support staff, citizen police academies, family members, and community organizations.
The course discusses:
- Identifying what causes Law Enforcement Officer post-traumatic stress disorder, as well as common signs and symptoms.
- Understanding the stress, pressures, and culture in law enforcement that lead to suicidal ideation.
- Identifying suicidal signs and behaviors that should not be ignored.
- Suicide prevention and intervention techniques.
- The value of family members and friends in identifying and mitigating mental health concerns within their loved ones.
- The importance of establishing and maintaining agency policies, procedures, and protocols for aiding officers in crisis.
The presentation of this course, in and of itself, will ALWAYS BE FREE of charge. Depending on the amount of travel and overnight stay involved in getting to the training site, the agency or organization requesting the training may be asked to assist with travel and/or hotel expenses.
We proudly present this course on our own time and without compensation, but please understand that we are also working law enforcement officers who have families of our own and bills to pay. Therefore, we are unable to incur large travel expenses out of pocket, and scheduling cannot interfere with our work schedules. We are willing to travel anywhere to present this training with that understanding, and we thank you for your understanding.
Please contact us by clicking the link below if you have any questions about this training or would like to schedule a training date. In doing so, please include your name, contact email, phone number, agency or organization, and a few options as potential dates if you want to schedule training. We will contact you to work out the details together and do our best to accommodate your training needs.