From Skepticism To Skills: How Co-Response Training Changes Policing

Resilience Development in Action: First Responder Mental Health

Steve Bisson

Counseling, Honest, Health & Fitness, Education, Social Sciences, Psychology, Mental Health, Self-improvement, Science, Substance Use

5.0 • 21 Ratings

🗓️ 19 December 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Send us Fan Mail What if the most powerful tool on a crisis scene isn’t a badge or a diagnosis, but a practiced partnership? We continue our conversation with Dr. Sarah Abbott about co-response and unpack how pairing clinicians with police changes the outcome of calls involving mental health, substance use, and high-stress events—from domestic incidents with kids present to house fires and welfare checks where information is thin. We trace the arc from a pioneering certificate at William Jam...

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0:00.0	Welcome to Resilience Development in Action with Steve Bisson.
0:06.1	This is the podcast dedicated to first responder mental health, helping police, fire,
0:11.4	EMS, dispatchers, and paramedics create better growth environments for themselves and their teams.
0:17.5	Let's get started.
0:40.6	Okay. their teams. Let's get started. You know, you've heard me talk about this before. Getfree.a.I. Great for your note-taking, good for your transcript, good for your goals, good for everything that you do in a hippocomplying nature.
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1:10.1	Want to talk a little bit about William James and what you do there?
1:10.8	Yeah, sure.
1:26.5	So William James College is a small but mighty training college for Massachusetts-based social workers and law enforcement who are involved in co-response.
1:31.7	The college is well known for our forensic programming.
1:35.8	And when I was maybe five years ago,
1:40.3	I started to realize that I wanted to have a bigger impact.
1:43.3	You know, when you get older or further in your career,
1:44.9	you're like, what's my impact and what's the legacy I want to leave behind? And part of that was I've been individually
1:51.5	training people for decades individually, one at a time to do this work or presenting one-on-one
1:59.9	training with people, and I wanted to expand upon that.
2:03.0	And I believe that the field doesn't have a credentialing tool for co-responders.
2:09.1	It wasn't even a job that you could apply for when we started this work.
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