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On today's episode we're talking to Gregg Lanzen, he's a police and fire chaplain from Indiana who was a firefighter, a medic, church pastor, and a counselor with a doctorate in Psychology. Gregg has all kinds of good things to tell you about building resiliency and some great tips for first responder families.

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Hey Chaplain Podcast Episode 121

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Fire, Ambulances, Career, Church, Counseling, Faith, Family, Health, Ministry, Psychology, Resilience, Goshen, Illinois, Indiana

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I'm frequently asked about the topic of grief, so here are a few thoughts that frequently come up in those conversations, with special attention to the insights we get from Christianity.

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Hey Chaplain Podcast Bonus Episode 44

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Grief, Bible, Death, Emotion, Fear, Funerals, Loss, Love, God, Health, Hope, Pain, Psychology, Remembrance, Sympathy, Trust

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Today we're talking about Field Training Officers and the FTO programs that train police officers once they are on the street. Our guest today is Steve Kellams from the Blue Canary podcast. Steve has taught hundreds of police departments in regard to field training issues and how to best run an FTO program and he is a past president of the National Association of Field Training Officers.

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Steve's Blue Canary consulting website, including his podcast - https://www.bluecanaryconsulting.com

The National Association of Field Training Officers (NAFTO) - NAFTO.org

Southeastern Field Training Officers Association (SEFTOA) - https://seftoa.org

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Hey Chaplain Podcast Episode 121

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Police, Class, Coaching, Drunks, FTOs, Fights, Law, Law Students, Love, Rights, Teaching, Training, Indiana

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Hey Chaplain Update Episode 3Q 2025

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Chaplaincy, Chaplains, ICPC, Law Enforcement, Limited Series, Mail, Microphones, Mini-Series, Podcasting, Radio, Reporting, Training, Kansas City, Little Rock, Arkansas, Kansas

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Today we're talking to Rick James… no, not that Rick James. Richard James is a chaplain with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from the Vancouver, British Columbia area. He is a former Canadian police officer and has been working in church ministry for several years. He was also a police chaplain in New York State for some time. Rick journeyed across North America and made a visit to my Kansas City studio part of his trip; at the time he held the record for furthest distance to visit me in person, but just a week after recording this, "Jake the International Security Specialist Guy" visited me from Thailand (Ep 117). I had no idea the distance-traveled record would be broken so soon.

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Hey Chaplain Podcast Episode 120

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Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Chaplain, Gun Control, Firearms, Police, Reports, Training, Regimental Colors, Niagara, Regina, Vancouver, British Columbia, New York, Saskatchewan, Canada

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Welcome to the Daily ICPC; My name is Jared Altic, and I'm a chaplain with the police department. This is a limited podcast series from Hey Chaplain, which follows police chaplains Jared Altic and Ward Jenkins to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend the annual training seminar of the ICPC, the international conference of police chaplains. This series will provide a daily, behind the scenes look at the convention, and this is our after-action review episode, which brings this mini-series to it's conclusion. A segment of I-49 is named after John Paul Hammerschmidt, the tunnel is named after Bobby Hopper and opened in 1999.

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The Daily ICPC Introductory Episode, MS.1.6

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Chaplains, Airports, Banks, Classes, Conventions, Death Notifications, Food, Friends, IACP, ICPC, LAPD, Liaisons, Nostalgia, Police, Ride Alongs, Training, Travel, Kansas City, St Louis, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri

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On this episode we're talking to Dr. Olivia Johnson from Blue Wall Institute. She is a researcher and subject expert on police wellness and specifically on police suicide and she is the jagged little pill stuck in the throat of the huge law enforcement machine that is funneling huge amounts of money at suicide prevention. Today she's going to talk about suicide prevention is broken, primarily because of the things that no body, not the family and not the agency, wants to talk about. But these are the things that a serious researcher like Olivia uncovers. Settle in because this is a conversation that shines a light where no one wants to look.

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Hey Chaplain Podcast Episode 119

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Police, Autopsy, Epidemic, Family, Funding, Relationships, Prevention, Propaganda, PTSD, Research, Suicide, Statistics

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Welcome to the Daily ICPC; My name is Jared Altic, and I'm a chaplain with the police department. This is a limited podcast series from Hey Chaplain, which follows police chaplains Jared Altic and Ward Jenkins to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend the annual training seminar of the ICPC, the international conference of police chaplains. This series will provide a daily, behind the scenes look at the convention, and this is our Day 5 episode. It's called a "Statler" cut and it's the Immediate Past President; Arkansas is where we learn things.

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The Daily ICPC Introductory Episode, MS.1.5

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Chaplains, Airports, Banquets, Classes, Ceremonies, Conventions, Food, Friends, ICPC, Police, Training, Travel, Little Rock, Arkansas

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