Since 2017 Minding the Badge™ has been developing and teaching mental health curriculum for public safety professionals, while, in particular, becoming one of the leading training resources for core resiliency and suicide intervention.
Known for our preemptive focus on total wellness training, Minding the Badge™ teaches science based measures of self-assessment and self-regulation that have been proven to reduce the impact of future mental health issues, if not avoid them altogether.
Our goal is to offer training that does not consume most of its time reexamining the problem, but rather equips others with proven realistic solutions.
We believe this approach will result in less need for crisis intervention, by preemptively avoiding crisis altogether.
DAMAGE CONTROL VS. DAMAGE PREVENTION
Public safety as a culture is slowly moving away from an approach to wellness that is focused more on damage control than damage prevention. The advancements in neurology are using neuroplasticity to a greater advantage than ever before, not only in treating issues like trauma, addiction, burnout, and suicide ideology, but we are able to take leaps and bounds in the progress of developing resiliency against them before they occur.
In a perfect world, first responders would exist in a culture devoid of the stigmas and risks of reaching out for clinical help, but the best research shows that nearly 80% of them have avoided such help, in lieu of other non-clinical resources--they either turn to a peer or to themselves.
Minding the Badge™ believes we can help both, with non-clinical evidence based training that you can use with a peer or for yourself.
Our passion is offering such training in order to contribute to a paradigm shift in the culture of public safety that is solution-oriented, rather than crisis-oriented. We encourage you to tour our website and discover for yourself how we can help you.
