b'Struggle Well Recovery WaysThis intensive five-day program isLibby Timmons, a counselor with offered through the Boulder CrestRecovery Ways, provides counseling for Foundation and is designed to teachpublic safety personnel and facilitates participants how to integrate healthyfinancial support when needed for principles into their lives, based onspecific therapies or programs. In the science of Posttraumatic Growth.March, Libby donated the equipment Thus far, all PSCD leadership hasfor a sensory room, helped set it up, and attended a short introductory courseprovided education for its use. The room to learn the concepts of the traininghas been extremely well received by staff and 20 PSCD employees haveand is used often to decompress after attended the program with more todifficult calls.attend in 2023. We have created a committee that allows staff to have a dedicated team they can count on to share some of the principles learned in the course. A big thank you to TPD leadership for including us in this program!PoliciesPolicies help set standards and assist in guiding staff to make decisions in a consistent manner as well ensuring a solid foundation for all. This year we were able to publish seven policies, draft several others and review existing ones that needed to be revisited. Members from all ranks, Employee Council, CWA, and Struggle Well participants will continue to be in the review process. Supervisors and PromotionsWith the PSCD Leaderships continued emphasis on self-improvement and professional development, we saw a hugeLateral PD Dispatchersincrease in promotional applications,We began hiring lateral police dispatchers to with a remarkable amount applyingassist in staffing the center. During 2022, 4 for Supervisor. As the operationsindividuals were brought in through the lateral staff continues to see growth andprocess, most of whom were returning employees potential in our staff, and faith in ourwho took a short period of time to get up to leadership continues to grow, we canspeed and could quickly assist in operations. expect more of our line-level staffThese individuals provided critical staff hours to to be invested in their futures withinpolice and fire dispatch disciplines.this department.continued2022 n ANNUAL REPORT21'