The Law Enforcement Mental Health Alliance (LEHMA) is a collaborative alliance to promote and share quality mental health and police suicide prevention strategies, for the future betterment of life, for law enforcement officers and retirees.

 

 

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MISSION 

LEHMA supports the mental health and well-being of law enforcement personnel in the United States and Canada by:  

·      developing a registry of selfless, committed organizations and individuals;  

·     creating an accessible peer support and professional network of diverse mental health resources;  

·        sharing information of mutual interest and benefit.

GOALS

 

 The organization is designed to:

·       Develop a network that promotes education and advocacy of proven mental health strategies for police officers.

·     Encourage effective police suicide prevention training in all levels of law enforcement to reduce its traumatic impact.

·      Promote the efforts of peer support officers, police mental health groups and community resources in suicide awareness, intervention and postvention plans and policies.

·     Provide a virtual campus of available resources and programs for use by others.

·      Encourage, support, and facilitate the sharing of materials and other research.

VALUES AND INTEGRITY   

 

LEHMA’s motivation lies in the recognition that together we cooperatively develop programs that will truly benefit law enforcement professionals.  It is the intent of the alliance to end the old “Neanderthal” ways of hoarding information that results in the continuous “reinvention of the wheel,” by providing easy access to alliance members’ information upon request.  We believe that sharing quality information of mutual interest is the key to success. 

We also seek individuals, organizations and groups that are dedicated to the selfless promotion of quality mental health strategies for the law enforcement community and whose integrity and values are beyond reproach, profit motive and/or self-aggrandizement.