Engage with PIPPs - Research, Programs, Expert Consultancy
For Public Safety Agencies/Organisations
Training and Programs for your Agency/Organisation
Register Interest or Make a Booking for any of the Training and Programs below by contacting the PIPPS Director, Associate Professor Jacqueline Drew.
The current training and programs that are available include:
Leader Programs
EMPOWER: Leaders Program – 2 day program
EMPOWER Leaders responds to new Australian workplace health and safety by equipping mid-level police leaders to better identify psychosocial hazards and manage psychosocial risks. This program is at the forefront of leadership development, seeking to address high rates of posttraumatic stress, depression, and anxiety, which are common amongst police cohorts.
EMPOWER: Emerging Leaders Program – 1 day program
The Emerging Leaders Program addresses the unique pressures of frontline work, examining how organisational, operational, and trauma-related stress can accumulate over the course of a career and contribute to burnout and psychological distress.
Staff Programs
EMPOWER: Staff Program – 2 day program
The EMPOWER Staff program is an employee wellbeing intervention specifically directed at mitigating psychosocial hazards and risks. The program can be useful in meeting the requirements of employers to engage in employee consultation to identify psychosocial hazards and assess psychosocial hazard risks. The program aims to enhance knowledge, skills, and capability of staff to better support health and wellbeing through greater understanding of and increased skills in addressing negative aspects of the workplace environment and reducing their impact
EMPOWER: Peers Program – 1 day program
The EMPOWER Peer Support Program introduces peer support as a practical approach that complements broader organisational responses to critical incidents and workplace stress. It builds knowledge supporting peers in bettering understand psychological distress, burnout, and suicide risk among colleagues, and teaches how to respond with effective, supportive communication. Peers learn how to guide peers in developing practical wellbeing strategies and learn about how to manage their own wellbeing.
EMPOWER: Vicarious Trauma Program - 1/2 day program
The program focuses the psychological impacts that might be experienced because of an individual’s indirect exposure to other people’s trauma (vicarious trauma). The session addresses how to optimise organisational resilience and minimise the risk of vicarious trauma amongst police, public safety and disaster management personnel. Program topics include: what is vicarious trauma; how to recognise its signs; and, how to prepare for and recover from vicarious trauma exposure. The session explores specific strategies to promote wellbeing.
Other Programs
PIPPS has several short course programs available. PIPPS has been engaged to deliver programs focused on the following topics (if you want more detailed information about any of the programs listed, please reach out to us):
- Suicide prevention;
- Embitterment in the workplace: How and why it develops;
- Identifying and supporting embittered staff: What leaders need to know;
- Supporting leaders in planning and having wellbeing conversations with staff;
- Vicarious trauma;
- Understanding, preventing and managing burnout;
- Health behaviour change, understanding approaches to coping and developing coping plans
- Engaging and supporting women police in leadership;
- Designing workplaces to support gender equity in policing;
- Healthy workplaces for women in public safety
If there is a program not listed here that you would like to discuss with our PIPPS team, we encourage you to make contact with us, we are able to design programs and training to suit your specific needs.
Research Studies - Register Interest
The PIPSS team is dedicated to working collaboratively with public safety agencies to undertake meaningful, practical relevant and evidence-based research that address contemporary critical issues in public safety. If you are interested in engaging with PIPPS to co-design research that is aligned with our expertise in public safety psychology, please reach out.
For Public Safety Personnel
Research Studies – Participate as Research Participant
We often have opportunities for public safety personnel to engage as participants in our research studies. This may be research being conducted by one of our academic team or our research students.
Check back here regularly if you are interested in supporting us by participating in surveys, interviews, pilot interventions or programs.
We do not have any current studies that require research participants.
Check back here regulary for updates!
Research Students – Make an Inquiry
If you are interested in enrolling in a Graduate Diploma, MPhil or PhD program to undertake research on a topics within the area of the psychology of public safety and would like to explore the opportunity of being supervised by a member of our academic team, please contact us.