Improving officer safety and wellness enhances the health and effectiveness of officers, as well as the safety of the community. This conference is for law enforcement professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Participants learn about building resilience, financial wellness, injury prevention, peer support programs, physical fitness, proper nutrition, sleep deprivation, stress, mindfulness, suicide prevention, and more.

During this OSW session, attendees learn about an evidence-proven, zero-cost, step-by-step process to do so. It begins with strategically setting measurable agency wellness goals that align with the needs and preferences of your internal and external key stakeholders and concludes with providing clear annual return on investment (ROI) reports to help justify ongoing program support, funding, and more.

The 2024 Officer Safety and Wellness Symposium is for public safety professionals to learn from experts in the field about resources and best practices when developing comprehensive officer safety and wellness strategies. Virtual registration for the 2024 OSW Symposium will give you access to three live-streamed general sessions (March 1-3, 2024) and dozens of pre-recorded workshops only available through IACPlearn. All workshops listed in the educational program will be available virtually, unless indicated otherwise, and will be accessible on-demand to view at your leisure. Virtual attendees will learn about building resilience, financial wellness, injury prevention, peer support programs, physical fitness, proper nutrition, sleep deprivation, stress, mindfulness, suicide prevention, and more.

This webinar addresses the impacts of tragedy and introduces a transformative process called post-traumatic growth. Mental health and policing professionals share their personal stories of tragedy and growth and provide practical strategies of how individuals can work towards post-traumatic growth in their own lives.

The topic for this session is creating infrastructure and departmental policies that include and support family wellness. This session will be a panel discussion where the speakers will share strategies and approaches, they have taken within their agencies.

The Family Wellness Speaker Series are virtual presentation on the topic of family support by experts in the fields. The audience is agency representatives interested in supporting the families of their officers.

The topic for this session is leveraging external partnerships to enhance family wellness programs.

This course is part of the Elevate Blue online series of training and will provide officers a comprehensive understanding of officer safety and wellness concepts.

Elevate Blue is a virtual training suite designed to address contemporary issues law enforcement faces today. In collaboration with six partner agencies, Elevate Blue virtual training modules deliver best-in-class training rooted in an evidence-based design process and delivered using adult-learning principles.

This session explores the growth that can come from difficult times and challenging situations. Presenters will introduce the concept of post-traumatic growth and how finding meaning from experiences can be protective and strengthening for resilience and overall mental health and wellness.