Training of the well -being of officers – Fraternal police order

Well-being

The National Committee of Well-Being Officers is hosting the FOP Officers' Summit, an annual training event specifically focused on well-being. The Committee strives to include seminars and informative and exciting presentations each year, variable content and speakers to focus on the most recent subjects of the well-being arena.

2025 Summit of well-being

Well-being forum

While the FOP is developing the approved supplier's bulletin, we invite professionals working in the well-being arena with law customers to join us for Updates of FOP well-being, training on current subjects in the well-being of police forces and networking with other professionals sharing the same ideas. Held each year in collaboration with the Summit of the well-being of officers, the Forum of well-being professionals offers well-being professionals the opportunity to interact and establish links with the population they serve.

2025 Welfare Professionals Forum

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Critical incident stress management (certified courses)

Instructors: Jerry W. Baker,, Deirdre Delong Or Chris Scallon

CISM: Help individuals in crisis (16 hours)

Crisis intervention is not psychotherapy; Rather, it is a specialized intervention of acute emergency mental health which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is in surgery, intervention in the event of a crisis concerns psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. This program is designed to teach participants the fundamental principles and a specific protocol for individual crisis intervention.

The completion of “assistance to people in crisis” and the reception of a certificate indicating complete attendance (13 hours of contact) qualifies as a class of the ICISF certificate training program.

CISM: Group crisis intervention (16 hours)

Designed to present the fundamental elements of a complete, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention program, the group's crisis intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. The fundamental principles of the management of critical incidents (CISM) will be described and participants will leave with knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, in particular demobilization, defus and the debriefing of critical incidents (CISD). The need for appropriate monitoring services and references if necessary will also be discussed.

The completion of “the intervention of the group's crisis” and the reception of a certificate indicating complete attendance (14 hours of contact) are considered as a class in the ICISF specialized training certificate.

CISM: Formation of support for individual and group peers (3 combined days)

This three -day lesson is designed to teach skills in the intervention of the peer crisis to public security agents. This is a specialized acute mental health intervention course used in the United States by law enforcement agencies. This training requires specialized instructions developed and supported by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF). As physical first aid is in surgery, intervention in the event of a crisis concerns psychotherapy. This three-day seminar will provide the participant with the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to provide these “psychological first aid” to colleagues and others affected by critical incidents, post-traumatic stress as well as the long-term effects of cumulative stress.

The basic program is designed to teach participants the fundamental principles and a specific protocol for individual crisis intervention and several of the group crisis interventions accepted internationally. Participants will be able to critically identify the multi-component approach to crisis intervention strategies following a critical incident. Planning the peer support team will also be discussed.

This training session is taught by ICISF (Critical Critical International International Stress Foundation). Trainees will receive two certificates for having successfully completed this training.

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Personal and career survival lessons

Instructor: Lieutenant Harold Bozeman

Resilience, well-being and development: personal survival and career (2 hours)

Well-being is more than an annual physique. Well-being should be holistic by emphasizing physical, mental, emotional and spiritual challenges as well as the development of a family and work support system. This 2-hour training course offered by the well-being committee of FOP officers focuses on individual and family resilience by addressing our ability to cope throughout our career while reducing the crisis and failure by education, proactivity and the development of health resources.

Early intervention: prevention of SSPT and suicide (2 hours)

Multiple studies and sources have concluded that the police lose more officers because of the personal crisis than the tragedy linked to the obligation while thousands of officers fight daily with trauma, family toxicity, reflection on victims and self -control without clear path to health. This 2-hour training course offered by the wellness committee of FOP officers reviews the seeds of personal and professional challenges and the indicators of red flag of early alert and describes how to respond before and after the crisis.

Green to Blue: Military veterans returning to civilian police (2 hours)

In green to blue: the veterans returning to civilian police, the participant will learn to recognize the effects of the trauma and to develop strategies to deal with those who serve in the military and the veterans who have returned or started their careers for the application of the law. This course will help guide the participant, using practical skills and knowledge of the “toolbox”, how to effectively use the principles of the critical response of incidents to help the veteran officer during traumatic or crisis reactions.

For more information, contact Corey Nooner or Sherri Martin in officerwellness@fop.net.

The training must be confirmed by Lodge / Agency accommodation at least 60 days before the planned training date.

Lodges are responsible for all travel costs of instructors and expenses and any course material associated with training, paid at least 60 days before the scheduled training date.

There are additional costs to record all CISM courses certified to ICISF which must be paid to the instructor at least 60 days before the date of training planned to ensure the registration of ICISF.