The Mission Is to Keep Everyone Coming Home.
Core Connections and SafeSide CARE help law enforcement, EMS, and justice teams recognize risk, respond with confidence under pressure, and support one another through challenging situations. Together, they strengthen team cohesion, promote consistent responses, and help ensure no one carries risk alone. Through facilitated team discussions, practical learning activities, and role-specific training, staff build skills they can apply in everyday interactions and high-pressure situations.
Core Connections has been successfully implemented in high-pressure team environments where trust, connection, and early support are critical to safety and performance. Core Connections, known as Wingman Guardian Connect in the United States Air Force, reduces hidden suicide risk (Wyman et al., 2020, 2022) and fosters a culture of support. The program protects vulnerable team members through stronger networks, not just individual detection.
What Participants Say About Core Connections
Strong Teams. Clear Response.
These roles rely on trust, communication, and people looking out for each other. SafeSide builds on that foundation. It strengthens connections across teams and gives staff a clear way to respond when someone is struggling. Leaders act with confidence, responses are consistent, and no one is left to manage risk alone. Together, Core Connections and SafeSide CARE form one system.
Core Connections
An interactive, evidence-based program that strengthens trust, reduces isolation, builds practical support skills, and helps teams look out for one another in demanding environments.
SafeSide CARE
An interactive, evidence-based program that strengthens trust, reduces isolation, builds practical support skills, and helps teams look out for one another in demanding environments.
Evidence and Evaluation
An interactive, evidence-based program that strengthens trust, reduces isolation, builds practical support skills, and helps teams look out for one another in demanding environments.
Looks Like Your Force
An interactive, evidence-based program that strengthens trust, reduces isolation, builds practical support skills, and helps teams look out for one another in demanding environments.
While Core Connections strengthens how teams support one another, SafeSide CARE provides a practical framework for responding when someone is experiencing suicidal distress. When it comes to safety planning, "what" you do matters, but "how" you do it matters more. SafeSide CARE is created through clinical and lived experience expertise and provides evidence-based strategies, such as developing safety plans for foreseeable changes and engaging support networks.
Support for Your Teams. Results Prove It.
SafeSide programs support measurable improvements in workforce confidence, connection, and suicide-specific care practices across clinical settings.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Services engage with SafeSide in different ways depending on their goals, workforce needs, and service setting. Some organizations begin with a single workshop or program, while others build longer-term partnerships focused on practice consistency, workforce support, implementation, or culture change across teams and systems.
Once you connect with us, you’ll be guided through a simple step-by-step process — starting with a call to understand your goals, followed by planning and building the right pathway for your context. You can read more about the full process on our What to Expect page.
Yes. Many services begin with CARE and CAMS in priority teams, then add Core Connections for well-being and Restore to strengthen culture after incidents.
All programs are designed to fit busy clinical schedules:
- Core Connections: interactive team sessions
- SafeSide CARE: InPlace® video-based workshops with continuous learning
- CAMS: structured training with support
- Restore: ongoing network meetings
Pricing varies by service size and delivery format. Most services find the cost is less than a single lost training day, with the return of stronger teams, more confident care, and consistent practice.
Core Connections: 6–8 hours across three sessions.
SafeSide CARE: 2–3 hour modules for supervisors, leaders, and health staff. Both are delivered flexibly to fit operational demands.
Stronger Teams. Confident Response.
Core Connections strengthens how teams support one another. SafeSide CARE builds confidence in responding to suicidal distress. Together, they provide a shared approach that strengthens connection, consistency, and support across your workforce.