{"id":573319,"date":"2026-04-09T06:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573319\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T06:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T06:22:08","slug":"tama-county-sheriff-mandates-mental-wellness-visits-for-staff-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/573319\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama County sheriff mandates mental wellness visits for staff | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[TAMA COUNTY, Iowa] \u2014 The Tama County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time deputies, dispatchers and jail staff.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>&#8220;The ups and downs of that roller coaster ride of the adrenaline and the different types of calls over time, it adds up,&#8221; Schmidt said.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":573320,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[97,252,13014,259,69893,260,252325,252324],"class_list":["post-573319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-iowa","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-wellness","tag-mentalhealth","tag-sheriff-deputies","tag-tama-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=573319"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/573319\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/573320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=573319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=573319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=573319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}