8 hour course Dr. Beth Walters Beth has been a Board Certified and Licensed athletic trainer since 2012. She has been an athletic trainer at ProTeam since 2020 and most recently stepped into her role as the ProTeam Professional Development Coordinator for opportunities to extend educational resources to agencies all over the United States. Her career spans collegiate athletics and working with several skilled athletes over her career. She has also been involved with professional associations that have allowed her opportunities to present to several audiences. While at ProTeam she has had the privilege of presenting to various SWAT teams, the National Troopers Coalition, and has been invited to collaborate with other agencies to bring them more educational resources specific to improving wellness through exercise and injury prevention. Cynthia Cynthia Reynolds is dually licensed in Clinical Social Work and Clinical Addictions Counseling. She earned her Bachelor’s Degree Science in Psychology from Valparaiso University and subsequently moved to Chicago, IL, to attend Loyola University Chicago to achieve her Master’s Degree. Cynthia lived in Chicago for 14 years where she was an active volunteer with the American Red Cross Disaster Mental Health team. She managed a police social work team for 7 years for Proviso Township, located just outside of Chicago in addition to (4) Emergency Department Crisis Teams. She loved working alongside First Responders and expanding the program to better help the community. Cynthia specializes in working with individuals experiencing anxiety, depression, survivors of abuse/trauma, self-injury, suicidal thoughts, crisis intervention, w Incident Stress Management, and Motivational Interviewing. She is a national speaker on topics such as stress management, depression, geriatric mental health, and the symptoms of post-traumatic stress after ICU admission. She has completed training with the Star Behavioral Health Team, which trains civilian mental health providers the culture and challenges of military service. Since returning to Indianapolis in 2010, she worked with Eskenazi Health in the Sandra Eskenazi Center for Brain Care Innovation and the nationally recognized Critical Care Recovery Center for 12 years. Cynthia is thrilled to be back working with First Responders at ProTeam Wellness. Course description: This course will expose learners to a multitude of practical approaches in improving their strength and ways to decrease rate of injuries sustained as an LEO. This course will be dynamic, and activity based to allow attendees to be able to immediately implement strategies learned in this course into their everyday life/training. They will be provided with various self-screening techniques to know their movement deficiencies and definitive methods to improve tactical performance. Additionally, aspects of recovery that will greatly impact their career longevity as a tactical athlete. While half of the course will focus on the physical aspect of wellness, the other half will turn its attention to the mental and behavioral aspects of wellness for officers. Tactical resilience for mental wellness requires training and practice. Similar to improving physical health, attendees will learn how to self-screen for potential limitations in mental resiliency and understand the biology behind those deficits. With an aim to bolster mental resilience, learners will obtain immediate strategies to practice for acute and more complex injuries, including getting a first-hand look at the gold standard approach to acute injuries. Learners will gain understanding of when mental resilience protects and when it may inhibit career longevity. All aspects of this course will be activity-based with a focus on creating a personalized wellness recovery plan for each attendee. Student equipment: Attire that allows for an activity-based course. Notebook/something to take notes.