Increasing Resilience in First Responders (Enterprise)

**The training listed below is not necessarily approved or endorsed by DPSST unless noted in the announcement**

Class: Increasing Resilience in First Responders – SPACE IS LIMITED

Sponsoring Agency: Oregon Department of Public Safety Standards and Training

Target Audience: Law Enforcement, Corrections, Parole and Probation, Telecommunicators, Fire/EMS and behavioral health practitioners who work with public safety

professionals.

When: Thursday, September 8, 2022

Hours: 9:00 am to 4:00 pm

Where: Hearts for Health, Wallowa County Center for Wellness, 606 Medical Parkway, Enterprise, Oregon 97828

Cost: Training free

Participants will receive a copy of Dr. Conn’s book “Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel” ($40 value).

Lunch: On your own

Course Description: This course will describe how first responders can take proactive and responsive steps to adaptively respond to chronic stress and trauma. A discussion of the risk and protective factors that influence wellbeing is offered to assist first responders to understand their own discussion of the neurobiology of trauma. Resilience research is applied to the unique issue of first responder work, generating practical strategies to promote resilience. This discussion will be fortified with practical exercises that assess current levels of resilience and map a resilience‐building plan.

Learning Objectives:

-  Attendees will be able to identify risk and protective factors for chronic stress and trauma.

-  Attendees will be able to describe the neurobiology of trauma.

-  Attendees will be able to identify organizational and personal strategies for increasing protective factors against chronic stress and trauma.

Presenter: Dr. Stephanie M. Conn, Licensed Psychologist/Author

Dr. Stephanie Conn is a former police officer, as well as the daughter and wife of police officers, and currently works as a Licensed Psychologist in private practice, specializing in police stress, trauma, worklife balance, coping, and resilience. She supports first responder agencies with CISM, peer support, and mental health training. She has 22 years of experience working in the first responder field. She began as a dispatcher/call‐taker before becoming an officer with the Fort Worth Police Department and then earning her doctorate in Counseling Psychology. She has presented widely to emergency responders, sharing wisdom gained from her police experience, her research, and her therapy practice. She is the author of Increasing Resilience in Police and Emergency Personnel.

Deadline to Register: August 28th, 2022

To register, go to:  https://forms.gle/8zuBanqGDxo5KwWe6

Questions? Kevin Rau, DPSST Behavioral Health Program Coordinator, kevin.rau@dpsst.oregon.gov

Julie L. Collinson, DPSST Behavioral Health Program Coordinator, Julie.collinson@dpsst.oregon.gov