How can positive thoughts drive success in the field? Courtney Runnels explains how to reframe negative experiences through a shift in mindset.

What is the importance of relaxing your body? Courtney Runnels explains how to practice tactical breathing to avoid fight or flight responses during calls.

What is the importance of relaxing your brain? Courtney Runnels explains how to practice grounding to reduce fear, anxiety and depression.

How can small physical movements calm your brain? Courtney Runnels explains how to practice Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) to remain calm during and after calls for service.

How and why does trauma effect each of us differently? Dr. Erika Sallee and Dr. Brenda Tillman discuss the importance of knowing your Achilles heel and recognizing your personal triggers.

How can we understand our stress level? Dr. Erika Sallee and Dr. Brenda Tillman explain how stress impacts the brain and the importance of training in handling your trauma.

What strategies can you use to improve resiliency? Dr. Erika Sallee and Dr. Brenda Tillman explain the importance of understanding personal motivations and building healthy habits to help you effectively respond to trauma.

What is the Cycle of Awareness, and how can awareness of our normal response to stressors save us from becoming trapped in bad patterns? Dr. Mike Ricker discusses how knowing when we aren’t doing well is an important first step in effectively dealing with triggers.

Who are chaplains and how can they help your officers? Chaplain Michael Shochet explains the role of a chaplain in supporting officers and community members in their times of need.

How do you create a Peer Support Team that is not only embraced by your agency, but loved? Lt. Mark Dale discusses what programs, policies and techniques create peer support teams that officers want to be a part of, both when they need help and when they they want to support their colleagues.

How do you connect officers with the right peer support? Fiscal Ofc. Jennifer Simon and Lt. Greg Simon discuss the importance of including civilian staff on peer support teams and the impact mutual choice rather than one-way assignment can make.

How can comfort dogs help those who have witnessed critical incidents, both civilians and officers, decompress and feel comfortable opening up? Lt. Chris Sharp walks through use cases for comfort dogs and how to put effective policies in place to make sure your comfort dog program is effective.

Effective debriefs don’t just include the officers that are on scene during a call. Lt. Chris Sharp discusses the importance of including all investigative and support units in major incident debriefs, and he walks through how to make sure everyone feels comfortable telling their story and beginning to process their experience.

How do you ensure group debriefs will be helpful to those involved? Dr. Mike Ricker discusses leading effective debriefs, from where in the room people are seated to how to phrase questions.

After a critical incident, your family may not know that peer support resources are available to you, let alone how to use them. Betty and Sandy Chase discuss their sister’s End of Watch during Police Week, and how peer support teams help you survive those devastating moments.

How can your agency start and grow a successful peer support program? Lt. Mark Dale walks through tips for structuring and budgeting peer support teams, and he discusses how to utilize regional resources to strengthen your program.

Families want to share in our successes and bear our burdens. Detective Christina O’Rear of Grapevine Police Department explains how we can support our families through critical incidents in the news.

Those in the field aren’t the only responders directly affected by critical incidents. Sarah Hataway of Garland Police Department explains the need for resources geared specifically towards our dispatchers and the stressors they face.

The right clinician is not just knowledgable, but someone your officers feel comfortable working with to gain that knowledge. Courtney Runnels of Grand Prairie Police Department discusses how to find a clinician who’s a good fit for your agency.

The right clinician is not just knowledgable, but someone your officers feel comfortable working with to gain that knowledge. Courtney Runnels of Grand Prairie Police Department discusses how to find a clinician who’s a good fit for your agency.

Coping with loss can be difficult at any age. Detective Christina O’Rear of Grapevine Police Department details how to broach the topic of death with children of different age groups.

Securing mental health resources may be easier than you think. Officer Todd Gyure of Garland Police Department discusses how he tapped into regional resources to bolster mental wellness within his agency.

Through passion and understanding, Briana outlines how to be involved in your local legislative process and make positive change for first responders.

After supporting her spouse through his own mental health crisis, Kris shares critical advice and the true definition of what it means to be a Law Enforcement Spouse.

It can be challenging to be a child of a first responder in today’s environment. Heather shares her family’s struggle in hopes to inspire other families to tackle these realities.

As a Family Support Liaison for Clearwater Police Department, Nancy shares her love of the job and how to cultivate a relationship between precinct leadership and their families.

Rendy shares her personal experience of a critical incident and how beneficial developing early relationships between families and administration can be.

Dr. Jeff McGill (CEO) and Steven Hough (COO) of Blue H.E.L.P. have been partners for many years, on and off the streets. They will discuss how critical it is to prepare your support system early, and to lean on each other when you need it.

Understanding the pressures that come with a role in public safety first hand, Ron and Bambi Slagle outline just how important a supportive community can be to both sworn officers and civilians.

Thom Jackson was a soldier in the U.S. Army from 1985 to 1993. After his service in the military, Thom joined the Nevada Highway Patrol and held every rank from Trooper to Deputy Chief.

Sharonda is as close as anyone to the struggle of PTSD as her husband, Omar, lost his battle to Post Traumatic Stress Disorder in 2018. In the years since, she has found a new sense of purpose, both personally and professionally.

With over 25 years of experience in various law enforcement roles, Jen Brown has worked to support both sworn and civilian members of her community.

As a Detective with the Anthem Police Department, Joe Austin provides his perspective on the difficulties public safety officers face in attempting to both cope and decompress from the traumas they are regularly exposed to.

Special Agent Samantha Horwitz will share her experience during one of the greatest tragedies in American history, how it affected her years later, and how she has recovered with a passion for helping others through trauma.

After he was ambushed and shot on July 14th, 2015, Charles and his wife Kelli Lo made it their mission to educate others about the importance of training, proper wearing of equipment, and officer mental health.

Lindsay McCall Long was involved in an officer-involved shooting where she she sustained injuries to her right arm, upper left arm, and back.

Serving for over 30 years in various public safety roles, Doug Dirren's unique experiences and expertise directly influenced the development of Axon's VR training modules.

In 2016, Dan Brite responded to a call for a suicidal subject where he was struck with an AK-47 and left paralyzed. Listen how he and his family found ways to support each other.

Brian Meo shares his experience of retiring from Law Enforcement and joining Axon’s Professional Services Organization to support agencies across the United States.

Chief Laura King provides insights for how families and LEOs (law enforcement officers) can empower and support each other in building mental resilience.

What happens when you leave your job but your stress follows you home? Dr. Nameeta Sahni will break down her top 10 tips for level setting on the realities of policing within your family. Dr. Nameeta Sahni and 100 Club AZ