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VALOR Officer Safety and Wellness Initiative

Resources

Faces of Law Enforcement

This series of posters and videos honors law enforcement officers for their duties under and outside of the uniform. From parents to coaches, athletes to cancer survivors, this series aims connect the community with the human beings behind the uniforms and badges and to show law enforcement as genuine, trusting individuals with respect for and from their families and communities.


Five Steps to Help an Officer Seeking Support Poster

How can I help? A fellow officer can reach out at any time for mental health assistance. Are you prepared to help? In this poster, discover ways that you can assist those officers courageous enough to reach out.

Making the Case for Law Enforcement Resilience: A Toolkit for Planning a Proposal to Justify the Need

Resilience strategies, initiatives, and training can promote officer and agency health and wellness, improve service delivery, and reduce stress and burnout. However, implementing new wellness components requires detailed planning, as well as support and approval from stakeholders and supervisors. This toolkit offers guidance to help.


National Consortium on Preventing Law Enforcement Suicide Toolkit

This collection of tools includes practical strategies for messaging, peer support, post-suicide support, and organizational systems change to help agencies develop and implement a customized agency approach to prevent officer suicide and strengthen officer mental health.

Resilience Strategies for Your Role

This series of resources addresses officer mental health and wellness concerns through practical resilience strategies customized to roles within the field of public safety.


Roadway Safety Resource Toolkit

This toolkit provides resources to help agencies develop or modify policy, provide additional training to officers, and change organizational culture to improve officer safety on the roadways.

What is Safer Together? Fact Sheet

The Safer Together Campaign emphasizes and strengthens the link between officer safety and wellness, community trust, and crime reduction.

Date Modified: April 18, 2024
Date Created: August 13, 2020