Family Support: How it can Impact Recruiting, Retention, and Resilience

Presentation Description: Departments across the country are fighting concurrent struggles of recruitment, retention, and officer resilience. Agencies are subsequently paying more in personnel costs than they ever have before and wondering how they can sustain the pay that is needed to recruit and retain the best of the best. Offering family support is a valuable opportunity to impact officers, not only in the moment but for the rest of their lives. During this session, attendees will learn how running a family support program can have minimal cost and high impact on your agency.

• will be able to understand what family support is.
• will be able to understand the impact that offering family support to their department will have on recruiting, retention, and resilience.
• will be able to understand the different options that have been successful previously that they can implement with maximum impact within their own department,