Enhance Leadership, Management, Wellness and Training Across the NYPD
Enhance Leadership, Management, Wellness and Training Across the NYPD
Studies document that enhancing police training and wellness improves policing outcomes for communities.
Our efforts include funding for PPE to keep officers healthy and providing access to free, confidential mental health services at one of the city’s leading medical institutions.
Project ABLE (Active Bystandership for Law Enforcement) trains first responders in intervening when necessary to prevent their colleagues from causing harm or making costly mistakes. ABLE aims to create a police culture in which officers routinely intervene to prevent misconduct, avoid police mistakes, and promote officer health and wellness.
Despite these unprecedented times, the men and women of the Department will continue to answer the call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It’s essential we support them.
- Susan Birnbaum, President & CEO, New York City Police Foundation
During the Coronavirus pandemic, the Police Foundation provided PPE including more than 800,000 masks, 200,000 pairs of gloves, 180,000 containers of hand sanitizer, and 3,600 meals to officers, as well as more than 8,000 hotel room nights to officers needing to isolate.
Learn MoreFinest Care, a partnership between the NYPD and New York-Presbyterian Hospital to connect all uniformed service members with free, confidential counseling and other mental health services, was launched with the Foundation’s support in 2019. The program stemmed from the success of Project COPE, which provided free mental health services for all NYPD employees immediately following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The Foundation funded a groundbreaking video and training curriculum about depression and police suicides called “By Their Own Hand” in 1989, which remains relevant today. The video received national attention from law enforcement agencies. The research and evaluation was conducted by an independent investigator from Columbia University.
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