Captain Dan Willis
Speaker, Author
Topic: "Bulletproof Spirit: Trauma Recovery, Wellness, and Resilience"

Captain Dan Willis served for 30 years with the La Mesa (CA) Police as a crimes of violence-sexual assault-child molest-homicide detective, SWAT Commander, Wellness Unit coordinator and Peer Support team leader. He's a graduate of the FBI National Academy where he studied trauma recovery, wellness, and resilience. He's an international instructor on police officer wellness (having trained over 8,000 peace officers in 35 states and Canada) and is the author of the emotional survival and wellness guidebook "Bulletproof Spirit: The First Responders Essential Resource for Protecting and Healing Mind and Heart" - which is required reading at the FBINA. We're pleased to announce that we are making this book available to each conference registrant.

Topic: "Bulletproof Spirit: Trauma Recovery, Wellness, and Resilience" offers evidence-based strategies for personal, as well as organizational, wellness from recruitment to retirement. It provides proactive wellness strategies that strengthen resilience and that enable officers to recover and heal from their daily work traumas that can not only cause suicide, but post-traumatic stress and other psychological and emotional distress that plague our honored profession. It also provides a path for organizations to create mechanisms for wellness and support for their officers/dispatchers. It is a blueprint for individual success, organizational effectiveness and professionalism, and positive community impact.

National Night Out 2022

Chief Mark Chase (Gervais PD), pictured 2nd from left on bottom,  says one of their agency's foundational goals is building strong relationships with the youth in their community. What better way to demonstrate this (literally) than BEING part of the foundation of a pyramid made up of kids from the community. We loved all that this picture represented! If you have any community pictures to share, please send them our way. We love sharing the good work that Oregon police agencies are involved in.

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KGW8
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KATU2
The Oregon Court of Appeals ruled Wednesday that Gov. Kate Brown was within her authority to grant clemency during the coronavirus pandemic to nearly 1,000 people convicted of crimes.
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OPB
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Statesman Journal
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King5
The "Before the Badge" program is intended to help recruits gain a better understanding of the people they will eventually swear to serve.
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Idaho Statesman
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KETV-TV
A team of truckers parked on Interstate 680 in Omaha as first responders helped someone suffering a mental health crisis.
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FBI: 84 minors, 141 adults rescued in national sex trafficking operation
FOX6
More than 80 children were identified and located in a national sex trafficking ring this month in "Operation Cross Country," the FBI announced Monday. 
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