Our Emergency services support works across all of the blue lights services to promote wellbeing and a positive approach to mental health, both individually and across teams.
Reactive. Challenging. Rewarding. Life-changing, in every way. It takes a certain someone to live up to the demands of the blue light services. We work across the police service, fire and rescue, ambulance, and search and rescue services to promote wellbeing and a positive approach to mental health.
Improve your mental wellbeing Our podcastsActively working to support your team with any mental health and wellbeing issues can and does pay dividends – it’s a short-term investment resulting in long-term benefits which have been proven through our work within Humberside Police Service, Humberside Police Federation, the National Police Wellbeing Service - Oscar Kilo, Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Fire and Rescue, and the National Wellbeing of Investigators Group.
For those in blue light services working on the frontline, promoting a good understanding of mental health has never been more important. Supporting individuals and groups as well as those who manage their own teams, working collaboratively to ensure a caring, aware and proactive environment is provided is an integral part of what we do.
Through any combination of training, wellbeing support for your team, reflective practice and therapy – whether one a 1-2-1 or group basis – however your frontline workers need supporting, Fortis can help.
Working closely with Fortis for the last three years has been a fantastic and enlightening experience, personally and for the Police Federation as an organisation. We first came together to look at how we could better support officers and staff working in some of the most high risk and high stress roles at Humberside Police. This led to a new approach to how the teams were engaged, lead and supported.
We selected Fortis because we are committed to providing high quality, safe and relevant materials which support our goal of reducing stigma around mental health in policing and they achieved this 100%. Te podcasts were extremely well received and reached around 4.2k officers and other interested parties as far as Canada and the United States.
Having shared a stage and seen the impact on police personnel first hand it was not difficult to see the value in adding Fortis Therapy & Training to the National Police Wellbeing Service (NPWS) offering. The two podcast series (Keeping The Peace) have undoubtedly been a huge success - a trusted resource for emergency service workers.
Fortis and Alexis' involvement in the national wellbeing of investigators toolkit has led to some of the work started in Humberside now trickling wider to other forces, an example of this is South Yorkshire Police which is now actively looking at the services Fortis can offer, not just around the Keeping The Peace model, but in relation to reflective practice training, trauma training and the concept of Alexis' support as a wellbeing guardian to the force.
When I started my therapy journey I didn't know what to expect or how it would help me. The therapy for me has been life changing. It has helped me change my though process and how to deal with challenging situations which previously I wouldn't have coped with. Thank you for helping me become the person I want to be.
