IVAT on Good Morning San Diego - KUSI News

IVAT President Bob Geffner, Sgt. Steve Shephard from the National City Police Department, and Jim Ellis of Legacy Productions met on Good Morning America to discuss our new POST-certified training, More than Surviving: From Traumatic Stress to Wellness.

More than Surviving is a training focused on an officer’s overall wellness, notably after dealing with incident responses, organizational stress, and community confrontations. It is open at no cost to all California State and Municipal Law Enforcement Officers.

Course Goals:

  • To help officers take a proactive approach to recognizing and reducing stigma around dealing with stress

  • To increase officer safety and wellness, while reducing officer and agency exposure to liability

  • To promote trauma-informed wellness programs within the agencies

The curriculum covers the impact of both direct and secondary trauma on law enforcement from the mind, body, spirit and social perspective. It covers a range of interventions and programs that target and manage the impact on individual, peer, organizational, and systemic levels. The curriculum is supplemented, through Legacy Productions’ “Keeping The Peace” film, with direct messages from key law enforcement commanding officers and chiefs throughout the state, as well as real-life video clips of peer officers providing insightful experiences and impressions.

Visit ivatcenters.org/trainings for up-to-date information on upcoming trainings, or visit https://www.kusi.com/wellness-training-aimed-to-reduce-officer-suicide-and-shootings/ to watch the video.

Sandi Capuano Morrison, MA