#15 A Conversation with Jay Ball About Police and Mental Health
Resilience Development in Action
Steve Bisson
5 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 22 September 2021
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Sgt. Jay Ball is making a return appearance on the show. We continue our conversation about mental health and first responders, particularly with police. We focus on PTSD, vicarious trauma, and the work of dispatchers and their important role. We discuss how shift work can be difficult, the perception of police, social media use for police departments, CIT versus co-response programs, as well as community policing. We also discuss mental health treatment for police.
If you want to reach Jay, you can email him at [email protected]
You can browse the social media of different police departments for your community by browsing Facebook and Twitter.
Here is some information on the different models we discussed:
CIT: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3769782/
Co-Response: https://www.theiacp.org/sites/default/files/SJCResponding%20to%20Individuals.pdf
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| 1:03.4 | Hi and welcome to episode 15 of Finding Your Way Through Therapy. We have a returning guest. |
| 1:09.5 | Sergeant J Bal has decided to come back and I am looking forward to our conversation. I know I did |
| 1:15.4 | his bio delastime but just a quick reminder. J works as a sergeant for the Framingham Police |
| 1:22.1 | Department in Framingham, Massachusetts. He holds a bachelor's of science degree in criminal |
| 1:27.5 | justice that he got at a University of Massachusetts in the low. He has worked in so many different |
| 1:33.3 | positions as a police officer. He started off as a Massachusetts transit authority officer. |
| 1:39.9 | He moved on to become an officer in the town of Milford, Massachusetts where he also became a detective. |
| 1:46.1 | He is also served as a school resource officer in Framingham, Massachusetts. In addition, |
| 1:52.8 | he has worked on many task force, including the Metro West Drug Task Force. And he also serves |
| 1:59.0 | as a law enforcement liaison to the Middlesex County Veterans Treatment Court in Framingham, |
| 2:05.7 | Massachusetts. In addition, he is also appointed to the governor's opiate recovery and remediation |
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