[TAMA COUNTY, Iowa] \u2014 The Tama County Sheriff’s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time deputies, dispatchers and jail staff.<\/p>\n
The Board of Supervisors approved the plan this week. Sheriff Casey Schmidt said the requirement aims to take a proactive approach to mental health for employees who face emotional and traumatic situations on the job.<\/p>\n
“The ups and downs of that roller coaster ride of the adrenaline and the different types of calls over time, it adds up,” Schmidt said.<\/p>\n
The mental wellness visits will cost about $5,000, which will be covered by the county health fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[TAMA COUNTY, Iowa] \u2014 The Tama County Sheriff’s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":389621,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[103,397,61,62019,60,410,51370,411,172904,172903],"class_list":{"0":"post-389620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mental-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-health-care","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-iowa","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mental-health","14":"tag-mental-wellness","15":"tag-mentalhealth","16":"tag-sheriff-deputies","17":"tag-tama-county"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389620\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}