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• Book excerpt: Respect: It's Not Enough

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  Veteran CO offers effective coping methods to combat the stress-filled career of a correctional officer

• Poem: The Felony Abyss

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  Some days it can be hard to shake the demons from your head

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  Case Study: Public safety organization integrates complex workforce scheduling requirements with human capital management and payroll

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  Kronos Workforce TeleStaff

  The East Fork Fire Protection District is one of Nevada’s largest combination fire and EMS agencies. Hear how their Battalion Chief led the department to integrate complex crew scheduling with human capital management and payroll in a unified cloud platform.

• Poem: Close Call

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  Emotional trauma impacts correctional officers every day

• 4 causes of critical stress in corrections

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  With the proper support, mindset, policies and training, critical stress can be identified and handled efficiently and effectively

• Therapeutic considerations in peer support

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  Peer support can act as one facet of treatment alongside professional counseling, group therapy or medical treatment

• 6 steps to peer support success

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  When implemented effectively, a peer support program can be one of the best resources for first responders to access help

• Book Excerpt: ‘Super-Charge Your Stress Management in the Age of COVID-19’

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  The personal risks and magnitude of suffering with the pandemic are something no one should have to face alone

• How your colleagues can add stress to the job

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  Anthony Gangi sits down with Greg Piper and Connie Alleyne to discuss how your co-workers can add to the stress of working in corrections

• How to implement a mental wellness program in corrections

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  Emotional trauma can catch up to correctional officers, which can lead to problems at home and other self-destructive behaviors

• Don't let your beliefs trap you

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  'Feeling trapped' can increase the odds of a person having suicidal thoughts – here are some strategies to break out of that thinking

• COs face stress, exhaustion at Texas prison with more than 600 COVID-19 cases

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  "We're essential staff that come in every day working through this pandemic. I think our staff deserves hazardous duty pay," a corrections officer said

• Fueled by COVID-19: Hypervigilance on steroids

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  Hypervigilance may help save lives when an actual threat materializes, but it wears us down if it becomes a chronic state of being

• 7 tips for staying sane during the pandemic

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  Practicing mindfulness not only improves your emotional and mental well-being, but your physical health as well

• A playbook for psychological health during the COVID-19 pandemic

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  Engage in these simple practices to manage the stress of uncertainty

• Why things go right and why things go wrong

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  Risk management expert and Lexipol co-founder Gordon Graham explains why things go wrong and why things go right in public safety using his high-risk, low-risk, high-frequency, low-frequency chart. Graham explains the five reasons he believes mistakes are made in high-frequency environments, and how first responders can combat those pitfalls. 

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