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BADGE OF LIFE CANADA POLICE SUICIDE PREVENTION The Badge of Life is a nonprofit, charitable, non-political organization for police officers in both Canada and the United States. We don't believe in borders between those who protect the public. All our services are free. Our mental health programs are nothing new in the world of mental health--they simply aren't being practiced by law enforcement. Unfortunately, because our main HQ is in the US, donations are welcome but are not tax deductible under Canadian law.
In memory of Sgt. Edward (Eddie) Adamson
The Badge of Life, Canada is proud to be joining hands with our brother and sister law enforcement officers in the United States to see true improvements in the mental health and well-being of our personnel. Nothing has shown our mutual concern better than the recent Eddie Adamson decision in Toronto, recognizing that the agony of post-traumatic stress from the job can result in the tragedy of suicide. This is an issue Badge of Life has shared a passion for as it has studied suicides in the US and sought to understand why none were ever thought to be work related--all the while talking to the public about how severe the stresses of our job were. We seemed not to be hearing ourselves!
We know well the price we so often pay in our daily devotion to the shield we wear and the public we serve. We are the compassion, the strength, the standard bearers for what is right and proper, yet we so often suffer not only the physical wounds, but the "soul wounds" that follow us long after the physical scars have healed.
We with the Badge of Life have a unique message and program to share.
We do it for free. Among us are clinicians, experts, officers, retirees--and survivors of law enforcement suicide.
It's about Eddie Adamson. And many like him in uniforms of many colors on both sides of the border.
But it's not "just" about suicide, either. It's about the living that we want to keep living and bring to that happy day when they can retire and sleep without the bad dreams, the tight chest, the attacks of anxiety, the pacing and the racing thoughts. It's called mental health--and we want it for all law enforcement officers. We have the tools and we hope to share them with you.
TORONTO WSIB RECOGNIZES POLICE SUICIDE FROM PTSD Article by former Toronto Police Association President Art Lymer
Take a look at our RESOURCE PAGE for more information, including what's happening in Canada!
We encourage you to read through this website, for all of it is "Canada" as much as it is the "United States." We are all brothers and sisters, faced with the same challenges and fates. It is what brought us, the staff of Badge of Life, all together in January of 2008--to see a better world for our active and future officers. We believe it can happen. It's up to you.
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     MARK BONOKOSKI BLOG Mark Bonokoski is a passionate writer with deep convictions when it comes to law enforcement. His recent five-part series on PTSD and suicide in law enforcement, focusing on the recent landmark case of Eddie Adamson, are deserving of awards.
by Art Lymer. Art Lymer is former president of the Toronto Police Association. He helped to initiate the process in 1993 that began the Workers Compensation appeals process for Eddie Adamson that ultimately resulted in Adamsons eventual suicide being declared a line of duty death.
The Canadian Mental Health Association, Ontario is committed to improving the lives of people with mental illness and their families, and to the promotion of mental health for all Ontarians.
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