Madison County Officers certify in Mental Health First Aid

Recently, 31 officers, detectives, and corrections personnel from Madison County Sheriff’s Department certified in Mental Health First Aid for Public Safety. The Public Safety version of Mental Health First Aid was created by police officers to meet the special needs of officers in our communities. Not only do sheriffs deputies and police officers respond, daily, to situations in which people …

Workplace Diversity

While preparing a lecture for my work at the university on “diverse identities at work,” I was reminded of the amount of discrimination, I have heard about within the workplace which is directed toward employees and applicants who live with disabilities, both physical and mental. I decided that it might be important to understand both the challenges and the opportunities …