Series Overview
Length: 2 Hours
$45
Responder work is taxing, and personnel are frequently being asked to do more with fewer resources. Dispatch personnel face increased stress, poor sleep, administrative and organizational issues, trauma exposure…and the list goes on. This six-module series confronts some of those issues, while simultaneously providing specific tools and skills to mitigate these stressors, increase performance, and bolster resiliency skills!
Meet Your Instructor:
Mel
Mel is currently a dispatcher and has been working for her department for about six years now. Before dispatching, Mel received her undergraduate degree from Colorado State University, Fort Collins in psychology with a minor in criminology and criminal justice. During her undergraduate career she was an investigator's intern at the Colorado State Public Defender's office where she learned that being part of the public defending process was not for her, and through a series of events she got into dispatching. Shortly after being hired on as a dispatcher, a supervisor encouraged Mel to join the police department's peer support team and that’s when she found her calling. For several years Mel was the only dispatcher on the peer support team. She was then trained in advanced peer support and started her master’s degree in military and emergency responder psychology. After graduation in late 2022, Mel hopes to do in-office clinical work with members of military and first responder populations, become a co-responder, and be trained in EMDR therapy.
