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CHECKPOINTS is a groundbreaking solution that will set your first responder agency on the pathway to a healthier culture and the healing that is deserved.
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To better support first responders' emotional health, we have to think differently, approach differently, and support differently.
Until we do, our first responders will continue to struggle.
It's time to put wellness in motion. Start Checkpoints to see how.
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Critical incidents aren’t the only thing affecting our police officers' mental health.
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04/16/2025
People often ask me why I care so much about the subject of emotional health for our police officers:
This is just one of the many reasons why I won’t stop beating the drum on this issue.
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/string-law-enforcement-suicides-rattles-first-responders-and-exposes-gaps-state-support
Thank you, Tribune and PERF for helping highlight the urgent need to better support the mental and emotional well-being of our men and women in uniform.
Start Checkpoints bridges the gap between talking about mental health—and actually getting our men and women the help they need.
String of law enforcement suicides rattles first responders and exposes gaps in state support Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. After two officers he had worked with during a 20-year stint in the U.S. Marine Corps took their own lives, Dustin Schellenger researched what mental health resources were a...
"Early” is a very relative term - especially in the conversation about mental health.
Almost all mental health resources for police officers are reactive - waiting for us to be broken or in a crisis before support is ever offered.
Our police officers and first responders deserve a preventative emotional health strategy too.
Consider bringing Checkpoints to your agency today.
04/03/2025
Honored to be recognized in the Police Executive Research Forum’s latest report, Call for Help: Treatment Centers for Police Officers. In his opening message, Executive Director Chuck Wexler included a quote from my book, CHECKPOINTS: The Blueprint to Emotional Health for First Responders, highlighting the unseen burden officers carry every day.
The job doesn’t just weigh heavy because of the danger. It’s the emotional toll — the secondary trauma absorbed from standing in the middle of other people’s grief and tragedy — that often leaves the deepest mark. I’m grateful to see this conversation front and center in PERF’s ongoing effort to address the real challenges facing law enforcement.
You can read the full report here:https://www.policeforum.org/assets/TreatmentCenters.pdf
An average person experiences 1-3 traumatic events in a lifetime.
An average Police Officer experience 150-210 traumatic events just in a career.
It’s time to do more than just talk about “wellness”.
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