How We Help
Healthy Relationships Increase Officer Resilience
Law Enforcement Officers who have a healthy and stable home life, have increased resiliency and safety in the workplace.
However, stress and training from the job can spill over and impact relationships at home AND stress and conflict at home, can spill over and impact officer safety on the job. We must break this cycle! Code4Couples® offers information, education, and tools necessary to empower departments, officers, and couples to just that.
Departments
Code4Couples ® offers customizable webinars, workshops, and retreats to departments, agencies, and other organizations, including the Hold the Line Train-the-Trainer program certification.
Couples
Empower couples to have connected and resilient relationships, by educating them on the spillover, and teach them to counter the impact.
Officers
Influence officer wellness and resilience. Code4Couples® will teach your officers how the training that keeps them safe on the job, impacts them negatively off the job, and how to mitigate its effects.
Heroes Don't Do It Alone.
Learn. Implement. Grow.
The Founder of Code4Couples®, Cyndi Doyle, is a certified and licensed therapist and LEO wife. With her educational background along with real-life experiences being “married to the job”, she brings a plethora of knowledge to share amongst her peers and shares it in various mediums. From her podcast to activity-filled workbooks and more, Code4Couples® has your SIX to help relationships get and stay on track.
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Connection is the key. We want to be seen, heard, and known by our partner. Code4Couples® helps couples to understand the impact and spillover from the job onto the relationship and the emotional toll it takes on both of you. When you understand the “why,” you move from surviving to thriving!
- Clear Communication
- Understand the Impact of Trauma
- Fight Off Loneliness
- Increase Connection
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Officers that are trained in mental health are better equipped to serve their communities. By understanding the warning signs (for themselves as well as others), it gives them a proactive approach rather than a reactive one. Along with being more productive, which leads to a stronger community, Code4Couples® will equip officers with practical tools and skills to be well-rounded officers.
- Proactive & Productive
- Stronger Department
- More Aware of Warning Signs
- Stronger Communities
How Can Code4Couples Help You?
Educating LEOs helps them and their support system to understand the steps necessary to protect their mental and relational health that also increases resiliency.
- Creates a stronger LEO department.
- Healthy officers make stronger communities.
- Better communication skills
- Educate, implement and grow together
The Latest from the Podcast
Navigating Burnout in Law Enforcement Communities
Yolanda Harper, LCSW, and Cyndi Doyle discuss the impact of burnout in law enforcement officers, spouses, and relationships.
How to Advocate for Police Families after a Traumatic Brain Injury
In this episode of the Code4Couples podcast, host Cyndi Doyle continues the conversation with Joan Van De Greik about the severe financial impacts following her husband’s traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained in the line of duty. Joan shares the struggles they faced, including mounting medical expenses, navigating insurance and workers’ comp, the importance of disability and life insurance with living benefits, and ultimately starting her business, Fetch Your Wealth.
Joan’s story highlights the necessity of financial planning for law enforcement families facing similar challenges.
The Impact of In The Line of Duty Injuries on Law Enforcement families
There’s an injury to the head on the job. If it’s an open wound, it gets addressed, stapled up, and healed. As time goes on, you or your spouse notices that you’re different.
You’re changing your mood, your drive, your impulsivity and your memory isn’t what it used to be.
You aren’t sure what’s happening.
Despite what looks fine externally, you know something is going on.
Joan Van De Greik shares the story of her husband’s injury and their years of struggle, not only to get the diagnosis, but dismissal and betrayal of the city and the fight for compensation as a work-related injury. Joan’s mission is to educate other law enforcement families and help them to be financially prepared should they experience a career ending injury or line of duty death. This is part one of my interview with Joan as she shares her story of the struggle after the incident.
Indirect Trauma in Law Enforcement Relationships
In a dual first responder home, there are times when first person and vicarious trauma must coexist. We may experience the traumatic incident firsthand and then hear the other person’s view of the same incident when we are home together. While the differing perspectives can be beneficial, it’s not always true. Every person’s reaction to a singular incident is different, and sometimes it can be difficult to remember it. Lisa and James Robinson are a dual first responder couple that have and continue to work through traumas both individually and shared. They share how they stumble through and what they have learned to help and support themselves and each other.
Trauma in Law Enforcement Families
As a couple, we are aware that officers and their families can be impacted by the job. Sometimes, the impact is trauma. Trauma can be direct or indirect. Secondary traumatic stress can impact officers, spouses, children, or even extended family and friends. We need to be aware of the signs and symptoms to help ourselves and those we love. Expert, Melissa Kaiser talks about what to look for and strategies on how to counter the impact.
Thriving In and Out of the Career
In this podcast episode, host Cyndi Doyle interviews Brian Ellis, a retired law enforcement officer and creator of Magnus Worx, about the importance of wellness and resilience in the law enforcement profession. Wellness is not just a physical issue, but also a mental one, and it is crucial for law enforcement organizations to prioritize the well-being of their personnel. Ellis discusses the alarming state of public safety well-being and the need for organizations to take action to support their employees. He also highlights the importance of data in measuring the effectiveness of wellness programs and the role of technology in providing a safe and anonymous environment for individuals to express their needs and concerns. Ellis encourages law enforcement personnel to prioritize their own wellness and seek out resources and support, and emphasizes the need for organizations to adopt a strategic and holistic approach to wellness.
