Dan Willis

With everything that has occurred in our profession over the past year, now more than ever, officers and dispatchers need supportive care, assistance, avenues for healing and mechanisms for wellness. […] Read More

Trauma, acute stress and potentially crippling situations are part of an officer’s everyday experiences. How an officer learns to respond to these daily traumas can determine positive outcomes for the […] Read More

Proactive principles of organizational wellness are essential, not only for individual officer and dispatcher survivability and wellness, but also for optimal functionality of the agency. Such wellness principles ensure the […] Read More

There are several treatments for post-traumatic stress; however, eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) is nearly universally recognized to be one of the most effective by certified trauma professionals who […] Read More

Post-traumatic stress is an injury, not a weakness. It is not a mental disease or disorder, but a serious and potentially life-threatening injury to your brain and its ability to […] Read More

The daily traumas of police work can not only injure an officer’s brain, causing post-traumatic stress and a host of other crippling psychological and emotional wounds, but work traumas can […] Read More