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Our Mission

Provide First Responders with the knowledge and tools for self-care to live healthy lives during and post their careers. First Responders include: Police, Firefighters, Paramedics, Dispatchers, and Military. A proactive approach to suicide is needed by providing psychoeducation, interactive conversation, and scenario-based training. Resilient Heroes, NFP was created to inform first responders of the traumas, triggers, and risk factors for suicide. By providing first responders with the knowledge of stress coping and the adversities to trauma, we can provide them with the ability to advocate for themselves and seek the resources available to them. This will offer our first responders the ability to be more proactive and resilient which reduces the likelihood of being in crisis.
 

We can provide the tools to first responders to care for their physical, mental, and physiological  well-being throughout their careers. It is important for agencies and leadership to be aware of the need for first responders to be personally self equip to successfully care for those that they serve. When first responders experience trauma daily, it is only natural for those events to have an impact on their personal and professional lives.

Resilient Heroes strives to provide a proactive approach to suicide in the first responder community. First responders need to know what resources and and skills available and how to access those options, which are provided by Resilient Heroes, NFP.

“Police Officers are more likely to die by Suicide than in the line of duty,"  (Ruderman White paper, 2018)

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ABOUT

Elizabeth Pol, MA 

ENGLISH/SPANISH

I am a 20 year active Police Officer with the Chicago Police Department. I am also a
Mental Health Professional with a Master’s degree in Forensic Psychology.

Psychoeducation Training

Psychoeducation training in Stress, Trauma, and Suicide Awareness for Law Enforcement

 Suicide Psychological Autopsies

Law Enforcement Psychological Suicide Autopsies

Volunteer Trauma Dog Therapy

Therapy dogs and mental health benefits go hand-in-hand

Debriefing/Defusing & Traumatic Debrief

Effectively support people who have experienced an extraordinary or traumatic incident

Meet Arlo

Arlo, the gentle giant who has been working as a therapy dog with members of Law Enforcement and Military Veterans who experience stress, trauma, grief, and emotional distress! 

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"Police officers can develop mental and physical health issues because of the traumas they face during their career.”

Current & Previous Projects

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Psychoeducation training

Trauma and Suicide Awareness for First Responders

Resilient Heroes strives to inform first responders of mental health care and provides information of the resources available to them.
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