LEMAS Supplement Survey – Response to Police Suicide que

Attachment B: LEMAS Supplement Survey – Response to Police Suicide questionnaire

Current Programs

The first questions ask about formal wellness programs currently available to full-time sworn personnel within your agency. For this survey, please define a formal wellness program as: a program intended to reduce factors that interfere with employee physical and/or mental health by providing resources, training, and/or intervention services.

1. In the calendar year 2022 (that is, January 1 through December 31, 2022), did your agency offer any of the following formal wellness programs for use by full-time, sworn personnel? If no formal wellness programs were offered to full-time sworn personnel, please select the applicable Not Offered category for each program and skip to Question 4.

	If managed by agency			If managed by government	Not offered
	Yes, managed directly within the agency	Yes, through agency contract with external partner	If either agency option is Yes, since what year? If more than one program, enter the origination date of the oldest program that was still active in 2022.	Yes, managed by government	No such program available in 2022; don’t intend to make available within 2023	No such program available in 2022, but intend to make available at some point within 2023
Physical fitness
General stress management
Coping skills to manage trauma
Psychological and mental health care treatment
Nutrition and dietary education
Alcohol and chemical dependency treatment
Peer support programs
Support for families of sworn personnel
Financial literacy education
Fatigue management
Other ______

1a. IF any YES Q1: What is your agency’s estimated budget dedicated to formal wellness programs in calendar year 2022? $XXX,XXX,XXX

1b. IF any YES Q1: How many total full-time agency employees work in wellness programs as their primary responsibility as of December 31, 2022? Please provide separate counts for sworn and non-sworn full-time agency employees. Sworn: ____ Non-Sworn: _____

2. For the formal wellness programs offered in the calendar year 2022, does your agency collect and regularly assess (i.e., every month, quarter, or year) data on the number of officers served by each program?

	Yes	No	N/A, program not offered in 2022 or data not available to agency
Physical fitness
General stress management
Coping skills to manage trauma
Psychological and mental health care treatment
Nutrition and dietary education
Alcohol and chemical dependency treatment
Peer support programs
Support for families of sworn personnel
Financial literacy education
Fatigue management
Other ______

3. Are any of the formal wellness programs offered in the calendar year 2022 available confidentially?

	Yes	No	N/A, program not offered in 2022
Physical fitness
General stress management
Coping skills to manage trauma
Psychological and mental health care treatment
Nutrition and dietary education
Alcohol and chemical dependency treatment
Peer support programs
Support for families of sworn personnel
Financial literacy education
Fatigue management
Other ______

Current Policies and Training

4. Does your agency mandate any of the following policies for full-time sworn personnel?

	Yes	No
Regularly scheduled (e.g., annually, quarterly) psychological evaluations
Response protocols after critical incidents that occurred on-duty (e.g., officer involved shooting)
Response protocols after critical incidents that occurred off-duty (e.g., death in family, divorce)
Officer allowed access to service weapon while off-duty
Temporarily reduced access to service weapon when an officer is considered at a higher risk of suicide

5. Are any of the following full-time sworn personnel provided training on potential warning signs of depression and suicide risk?

	Yes	No	N/A
Chief executive
Intermediate supervisor (below chief executive and above sergeant or first-line supervisor)
Sergeant or equivalent first-line supervisor
Deputies/Officers

6. Is suicide awareness training a part of your agency’s curriculum for…

	Yes	No	Don’t Know	N/A (agency does not operate an academy)
Academy or field training?
Post-academy or in-service training?
Exit interviews with retiring or departing sworn personnel?