The smyrna police department will use lemhwa funding to reduce known suicide risk factors and promote officer wellness in smyrna police department's 101 officers, dispatchers, and jail personnel by 1)…

The smyrna police department will use lemhwa funding to reduce known suicide risk factors and promote officer wellness in smyrna police department's 101 officers, dispatchers, and jail personnel by 1) increase outreach efforts with community partners to conduct mental health first aid training focused on identifying early warning signs for suicide risk; (2) participate in prevention training focused on how organizations can be resilient in the face of loss; (3) conduct comprehensive wellness checks with a focus on mental health, physical fitness and diet; (4) conduct program evaluation on department-wide, quarterly training focused on sleep health, substance use, conflict management, psychological hardiness, and financial resilience to increase protective factors against job stress; (5) contract with a community partner to provide experienced, culturally competent licensed mental health clinicians; and (6) conduct an organizational health assessment in each year to examine current concerns and monitoring department progress in reducing factors associated to health and well-being, and plan health and wellness programming for subsequent years.