Family Toolkit for Public Safety Organizations

Your Role and Organizational Context

To make the Toolkit as useful and relevant as possible, we'd like to understand the context in which you work. This section invites you to reflect on your role, your organization, and how families currently fit—or could fit—within your portfolio. Taking a moment to consider these elements can help clarify how family-centred approaches might align with your organizational priorities and practices.

Your responses will help us understand the diverse realities across public safety services and will guide how we continue to refine and strengthen the Toolkit. All information is used for quality improvement purposes.

SECTION 1: Your Role in Family-Centred Initiatives

1. Which of the following best describes your role in your organization, especially concerning family-centred initiatives? (Select all that apply)

1a. Are family-centred initiatives part of your role:

Formally Informally ("side of desk")

1b. Who in your chain of command/leadership do you require approval from to implement a family program, initiative or action?

1c. In your role, how ready do you believe your organization (i.e., your station house/ your members/ those involved in your programming, etc.) is for a family program, initiative or action?

Statement	Strongly disagree	Somewhat disagree	Neither agree nor disagree	Somewhat agree	Strongly agree	N/A / Unsure
We have dedicated and effective people ready to plan and execute a family program.
We have the resources (funds, location, etc., if needed) to plan and execute a family program.
We currently include families in our programs.
We see a need in our organization for a family program.
We have had a conversation with our leadership about the need for a family program.
Our leadership supports the planning and implementation of a family program.

1d. When and how were you made aware of what families need and want? (i.e., Peer support, family discussions at events such as BBQs, your own family, members telling you about their families, etc.)

1e. In your role, how ready do you believe the families are for a family program, initiative or action?

Statement	Strongly disagree	Somewhat disagree	Neither agree nor disagree	Somewhat agree	Strongly agree	N/A / Unsure
Families have the desire for a program from the organization.
Families have reached out to the organization.
Members are looking for programs for their families.

SECTION 2: Your Sector

2. Which public safety sector best describes your work? (Select one)

2a. (Optional) If you think it's relevant, please provide more specifics about your role within your sector.

SECTION 3: About You

3. How many years have you worked in public safety?

4. How long have you been with your current organization?

5. What is your gender?

Woman Man Non-binary Two-Spirit Prefer not to say Prefer to self-describe:

SECTION 4: Your Organization's Profile

6. In your role, what do you see as most important for your organization? (Select all that apply)

7. In your role, what do you see as most important for the families? (Select all that apply)

Building connections for families with other families. Building connections for families with the organization (who to contact in the organization) Being included in celebrations as well as moments of crisis. Being included in the consultation or planning of family programs, initiatives and actions. Learning/understanding more about the realities of the job. (i.e., what does their loved one do at work, demystifying the work, and what is expected of them as a public safety personnel family member.) Understanding the changes in their public safety personnel loved one. Learning how to better support their public safety personnel loved one. Learning how to better support themselves as the family member of public safety personnel. I don't know.

8. In your role, which do you see as the most important for your organization at the moment? (Please rank them from most to least important by dragging and dropping)

9. In your role, which do you see as the most important for the families at the moment? (Please rank them from most to least important by dragging and dropping)

Family Toolkit for Public Safety Organizations

Your Role and Organizational Context

SECTION 1: Your Role in Family-Centred Initiatives

SECTION 2: Your Sector

SECTION 3: About You

SECTION 4: Your Organization's Profile

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