2025 Wellness Summit and Wellness Professionals’ Forum
As the National Officer Wellness Committee plans the agenda for the 2025 events, we will accept a limited number of presentations. Submit your presentation proposal here:
The call for presentations for the 2025 Wellness Summit and Wellness Professionals’ Forum is now closed. The full program agenda for these events will be announced soon.
Wellness Summit
The National Officer Wellness Committee hosts the FOP Officer Wellness Summit, an annual training event focused specifically on wellness. The Committee strives to include informative and exciting seminars and presentations, varying content and speakers each year to focus on the most current topics in the wellness arena.
Wellness Professionals’ Forum
As the FOP develops the Approved Provider Bulletin, we invite professionals working in the wellness arena with law enforcement clients to join us for updates to FOP Wellness programs, training on current topics in law enforcement wellness, and networking with other like-minded professionals. Held annually in conjunction with the Officer Wellness Summit, the Wellness Professionals’ Forum provides an opportunity for wellness professionals to interact and build connections with the population they serve.
Critical Incident Stress Management (Certified Courses)
Instructors: Jerry W. Baker, Deirdre DeLong or Chris Scallon
CISM: Assisting Individuals in Crisis (16 hours)
Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid.” This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention.
Completion of “Assisting Individuals in Crisis” and receipt of a certificate indicating full attendance (13 Contact Hours) qualifies as a class in ICISF’s Certificate of Specialized Training Program.
CISM: Group Crisis Intervention (16 hours)
Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.
Completion of “Group Crisis Intervention” and receipt of a certificate indicating full attendance (14 Contact Hours) qualifies as a class in ICISF’s Certificate of Specialized Training Program.
CISM: Individual and Group Peer Support Training (3 days combined)
This three-day course is designed to teach peer support crisis intervention skills to public safety officers. It is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention course used throughout the United States by law enforcement agencies. This training requires specialized instruction developed and supported by the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF). As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. This three-day seminar will provide the participant with the knowledge, skills and techniques necessary to provide this “psychological first aid” to co-workers and others affected by critical incidents, post-traumatic stress as well as the long-term effects of cumulative stress.
The core curriculum is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention and several of the internationally accepted group crisis interventions. Participants will be able to critically identify the multi-component approach to crisis intervention strategies in the aftermath of a critical incident. Peer support team planning will also be discussed.
This training session is taught by ICISF (International Critical Incident Stress Foundation) certified instructors. Trainees will receive two certificates for successful completion of this training.
Personal and Career Survival Courses
Instructor: Lieutenant Harold Bozeman
Resiliency, Wellness and Development: Personal and Career Survival (2 hours)
Wellness is more than an annual physical. Wellness should be holistic with a focus on the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual challenges as well as developing a family and work support system. This 2-hour training course offered by the FOP Officer Wellness Committee focuses on individual and family resiliency by addressing our ability to cope throughout our career while reducing crisis and failure through education, proactivity and the development of health resources.
Early Intervention: PTSD and Suicide Prevention (2 hours)
Multiple studies and sources have concluded law enforcement loses more officers to personal crisis than duty-related tragedy as thousands of officers wrestle daily with trauma, family toxicity, victim-thinking and self-harm without a clear path to health. This 2-hour training course offered by the FOP Officer Wellness Committee reviews the seeds of personal and professional challenges and the early warning red flag indicators and outlines how to respond before and after crisis occurs.
Green to Blue: Military Veterans Returning to Civilian Law Enforcement (2 hours)
In Green to Blue: Veterans Returning to Civilian Law Enforcement, the participant will learn to recognize the effects of trauma and develop strategies for dealing with those serving in the military and veterans who have returned or started their Law Enforcement careers. This course will help guide the participant, using practical skills and “toolbox” knowledge, how to effectively use the principles of Critical Incident Response to aid the Veteran Officer during times of Traumatic or Crisis Reactions.
For information, contact Corey Nooner or Sherri Martin at officerwellness@fop.net.
Training must be confirmed by the hosting lodge/agency at least 60 days prior to the scheduled date of training.
Lodges are responsible for all instructor travel costs and expenses and any course materials associated with the training, paid at least 60 days in advance of the scheduled training date.
There is an additional fee to register all certified CISM courses with ICISF that must be paid to the instructor at least 60 days in advance of the scheduled training date to ensure ICISF registration.
