Chaplains Connect

Happy New Year to all our amazing CPCA Full & Affiliate Members. It's time for us to connect across the nation to gain insight regarding a team approach that is functioning well within an Alberta Government funded program known as Prospect Human Services. As police chaplains, we have known First Responders who have stepped away from their public safety careers because of Operational Stress Injuries; or, tragically continued to serve with their pain until overwhelmed to the point of suicide. We are aware of police officers who have committed decades to public service, experienced successful careers, only to suicide just prior to retirement or within a year or two of retirement. Transition is difficult when you have served in a career that forges a job based identity from an early age of adulthood.

Prospect’s Forces@WORK: Public Safety Personnel program is designed to address the unique challenges of leaving behind a…