Dec 4, 2020
Envisage Technologies Achieves AWS Public Safety and Disaster Response Competency Status
Envisage Technologies announces that it has achieved Amazon Web Services (AWS) Public Safety & Disaster Response (PSDR) Competency status.
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Dec 3, 2020
Straight Talk About Suicide: Resources for a Supportive Conversation
Amy Morgan, mental health professional and director of Academy Hour, offers important guidelines for helping someone choose life over suicide. In order to truly support struggling co-workers in public safety, confidants must withhold both judgments and quick solutions.
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Dec 2, 2020
Milwaukee Police Tap Envisage To Improve, Increase Training Transparency
Envisage Technologies announces it will be working with the Milwaukee Police Department and the Milwaukee Police Academy on streamlining their training, performance management and reporting through Envisage’s Acadis Readiness Suite.
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Nov 24, 2020
Measuring the Whole Person: How to Track Training, Education, and Performance to Ensure Readiness
Public safety employees must have a broad range of training and education before they can be considered ready for their chosen professions. Organizations looking to increase readiness need a system that will comprehensively measure training, education, and performance while avoiding information silos.
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Nov 18, 2020
Vital Ways the New ECC Guidelines Impact Your Department’s Training
Join Jonathan Epstein, MEMS, NRP of the Public Safety Group (PSG) and Nick Magoteaux, the manager of patient transportation for an Ohio-based hospital network, as they discuss what the new ECC recommendations and guidelines mean for your department—and the type of impact you should expect to see as they are implemented.
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Nov 12, 2020
Suicide Intervention
Listen to Amy Morgan, mental health professional and director of Academy Hour, identify possible signs of suicidal thoughts, and provide practical tools for the process of intervening when someone plans to die by suicide.
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Nov 11, 2020
Georgia Department of Public Safety Makes Significant Investment in Training and Compliance with the Acadis Readiness Suite
Envisage Technologies announces that the Georgia Department of Public Safety (DPS) which includes the Georgia State Patrol (GSP), the Motor Carrier Compliance Division (MCCD), and the Capitol Police Division (CPD), selected the Acadis Readiness Suite to help them transform their training program.
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Nov 10, 2020
7 Ways Your Police Department Can More Effectively Integrate with Your Community
Law enforcement has never been an easy career. But the challenges have intensified in the last year, as police face controversial use-of-force incidents and resulting protests, in conjunction with an unprecedented pandemic. These ongoing crises have complicated matters for police departments across the country—even those that have had fairly good relations with their communities in the past. The long-term effects of these challenges have yet to be resolved, but one clear conclusion has evolved from a difficult 2020: The better you can integrate with the community, the better-off your department will be.
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Oct 27, 2020
How Psychological Trauma in One Person Can Have Lasting and Damaging Effects on an Entire Department
According to some studies, the rate of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among first responders may be between 15 and 30%, up to four times the rate among the U.S. general population. Such a high statistic nearly guarantees that every first responder department will include people with PTSD, some of them possibly undiagnosed and therefore untreated. While PTSD takes its heaviest toll on an individual and that individual’s family, the impact of PTSD on an individual’s co-workers—their entire department, in fact—cannot be underestimated.
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Oct 20, 2020
For First Responders, Work-Life Balance Must Be a “Part of the Job”—Just Like Long Hours
Work-life balance is more than a buzzword or new-age human resources speak. Nowhere is this truer than in first response, where unique pressures and heavy workloads contribute to stress that could potentially costs dollars and lives.
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