Welcome back to this weekly meeting of the Health and Safety Committee with Denver City Council.

Coverage of the Health and Safety Committee starts now.

Good morning and welcome to uh the Health and Safety Committee meeting.

Today is September 17th.

My name is Daryl Watts, and I am honored to chair the Health and Safety Committee and also to represent all of the residents of the District 9.

We have one briefing today, and what?

No items on consent.

Oh, one item on consent.

But before we go to our briefing, why don't we have brief introductions by city council members?

I'll start on my right.

Brief.

Okay.

Good morning, Amanda.

So you're district five.

Hi everyone, Serena Gonzalez Coqueta is one of your council members at large.

Good morning, Paul Cashman, South Denver District 6, and gosh, I'm pleased to be here.

I'm glad you're here, sir.

Great.

Good morning, Diana Romero Campbell, Southeast Denver, District 4.

And Councilmember Torres, I know that you are on virtual if you can hear us.

Yep, Jamie Torres, West Denver District 3.

Thanks everyone for joining.

We have a presentation from Department of Safety on employee wellness and support services.

So Renee Masias and Emily Locke, I'll turn it over to both of you to begin the presentation.

All right.

Thank you.

My name is Renee Masias.

I am the director of employee wellness for the Department of Public Safety.

I do have some of our employees here that I'd like to introduce as well.

So Sarah Graytech, Amy Camargo, and then Devin Clark from Risk Management.

So they'll be available to answer any questions that you might have that might be particular to either a physical therapy program or our relationship with risk management.

Just to kind of give you a little bit of a background.

So I come to this position.

I have 21 years as a firefighter.

I retired as a division chief with Brighton Fire.

And then I also have my degree in exercise science, corporate wellness.

So designing and building exercise programs, wellness programs for corporations.

So that was my previous life before fire.

If you can give me a hand, Emily and change the slide.

All right, thank you.

So what I want to do is kind of just give you an overview of what we do, and then we'll kind of get into some of the specifics as far as what's under the wellness umbrella at the Department of Safety.

At the top of our org chart is risk management and human resources.

There's a significant amount of relationships and working and collaborating together as far as programs and things that we do and financial support through risk management and human resources.

And then underneath that the rest of the org chart, we have a physical therapy program, which we'll get into more details about.

We have a mental health services program, which I'm sure you guys will have some questions, and there's a lot to cover there as well.

Agency wellness programs.

So I'm not going to take credit for these.

These are all of our wellness coordinators that represent our agencies with police, fire, sheriff 911, and then all of our smaller groups in the Department of Safety.

And then we have all of our vendors, so all of our contracted uh providers, so our department physician, it could be our mental health services folks, our record management system, uh, some of our testing equipment that we use for our personnel.

Uh and then our education component, which we'll also talk about in a little bit more depth, where we have students that come on board uh as interns, um, as well as some of our providers that give us education and training to our employees.

Next slide, please.

All right, so here's where we're gonna get into a little bit of the finer details.

So, some of the program components that we look at.

We have 11 different contracts that we that we manage, uh, mostly dealing with schools, um, so that way we can take on students with our with our uh physical therapy program or within the department of safety.

Uh we have our equipment contracts and then our record management systems because naturally, as physical therapists, they have record management programs that they need to kind of keep track of and and for patient information.

Fully confidential uh for our employees to maintain their safety.

Uh and then we have our department physician.

We do have a nutritionist and then a strength and conditioning coach that helps and assist that academies, and we'll kind of talk about that a little bit later.

We do do a quite a bit of cross-agency support.

So I already mentioned risk management, but when we have an incident that occurs in the city, whether it is um a department of safety employee or somewhere otherwise, so like um Denver Human Services, we had an incident last year.