720° Health: Mind-Body Resilience Training for Law Enforcement

720° Health is a wellness and resilience resource for all law enforcement personnel in California. Launched as part of an Organizational Wellness Initiative with the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training, it offers:

  • POST-certified Organizational Wellness Coordinator Course
  • Agency Wellness Plan mentoring by law enforcement leaders with expertise in implementing successful wellness programs
  • UC San Diego-certified Mind-Body Resilience Training
  • Integration of wearables and customized approach to meeting individual health and well-being goals  
  • Regional networking opportunities
  • Open-source resource database of referrals and health/well-being resources

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Mission

720° Health provides evidence-based interactive trainings and integrative health technology interventions to ensure law enforcement professionals and agencies have access to the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to promote and sustain mental and physical health and well-being.

Vision

Built into the core of every organization is a culture of wellness that supports and honors each individual’s health and well-being.Health and well-being is prioritized at the same level as other trainings in law enforcement.

Approach

In partnership with law enforcement leaders, professionals, and advocates, UC San Diego developed 720° Health to improve the health and well-being of law enforcement professionals and agencies. 360° awareness on the outside + 360° awareness on the inside = 720° Health.

More than 60 agencies have enrolled to date. This Organizational Wellness Initiative brings agencies through a process of internal evaluation and customization to develop a wellness program that fits each agency’s unique needs:

  • People First:
    • Internal leaders are identified at each agency to become trained as Organizational Wellness Coordinator(s)
    • A team of champions for wellness are developed at each agency across ranks and includes professional staff
    • A variety of stakeholders (e.g. union/association reps, city council members, human resources, risk management, etc.) are engaged from the start 
  • Data-Driven: All stakeholders including employees agency-wide to identify the most pressing needs for health and well-being training and resources
  • Customized: Mentors with expertise in lammw enforcement wellness support Organizational Wellness Coordinators in creating and implementing an Agency Wellness Plan to address goals for improving wellness culture
  • Practical Hands-On Training: Live, online, and mobile personalized health and well-being training is specifically designed for law enforcement professionals, command staff, and agency wellness leaders
  • Outcomes-Focused: UC San Diego researchers support protected, confidential analysis and ongoing monitoring of outcomes at the individual and agency levels

Our guiding principles:

  • Wellness is not a luxury; it is the foundation of excellence, performance, and longevity for law enforcement professionals
  • While the extreme stress encountered by most law enforcement professionals results in higher risk of consequences, poor health outcomes should not be presumptive, but instead, be prevented
  • Wellness programs in law enforcement should be preventive as well as responsive
  • Like other perishable skills, wellness for law enforcement professionals and agencies requires ongoing attention and training that must be prioritized
  • Wellness involves the whole person--body, mind and spirit--and requires an integrative approach
  • Wellness plans must be personalized for each individual, and customized for each agency. A “cookie-cutter” approach is inadequate.
  • Law enforcement professional individual wellness is reliant on creating a culture of wellness in each organization, and the success of each organization relies on the wellness of its professionals

Customized

Evidence-Based

Data-Driven

Technology Enhanced

Culturally Competent

Collaborative

Results Oriented

Six Practice Domains

The 720° Health Program is designed around two core and four supporting domains:

Awareness

Stop-Watch

Observe, Breathe, Choose

Purpose

Know Why

Remember, Align, Act

Movement

Move

Stretch, Sweat, Strengthen

Nutrition

Eat

Plan, Replace, Balance

Sleep

Rest

Sleep, Rest, Recharge

Relationships

Connect

Listen, Respect, Connect
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720° Health Curriculum

The 720° Health Program begins with a personal health goals survey. Participants then work through a series of training and modules reflecting their personalized learning needs and receive regular text message tips and reminders. Participants assess their progress through the 12-week program with midpoint and endpoint wellness surveys.

Wearable Devices

A subset of the 720° Health Program participants are enrolled in an additional wearables  program, in which they wear a fitness tracker throughout the 12-week period. Participants can view their wellness and activity metrics in an accompanying application.