Exploring and Supporting Families of Public Safety Personnel: A HomeBase Study
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Abstract
Background: Public Safety Personnel (PSP) face occupational stressors such as exposure to potentially psychologically traumatic events (PPTE), shiftwork, and potentially emotionally suppressive workplace cultures. The occupational risks and requirements associated with public safety roles extend into the home, impacting the lifestyle dimensions of their families, who are often overlooked in research and policy. Purpose: This dissertation aims to explore the lived experiences of PSP families, understand organizational approaches to family support, and co-design a toolkit to assist public safety organizations in implementing family-forward initiatives. Methods: A multi-phased design was used across four phases: (1) a qualitative systematic review to synthesize existing knowledge about the PSP family experiences; (2) an environmental scan to understand what initiatives currently exist; (3) interviews with family champions of public safety organizations to assess current supports; and (4) co-design focus groups and interviews to collaboratively develop and refine a toolkit with a feedback survey. Analysis occurred sequentially after each phase using methods such as thematic analysis and meta-aggregation for the qualitative data, and descriptive statistics for the quantitative data. Findings: Themes shared across different PSP sector families primarily included worry, communication barriers, and a lack of resourcing. Organizational responses to family needs emphasized the need for a more concise and centralized resource to help these organizations provide this familial support. The co-design phase produced a practical toolkit, informed by PSP in implementation-related roles, and tailored to the Canadian public safety context. Conclusion: This research highlights the unmet needs of PSP families and provides an evidence-based toolkit to guide organizations in offering meaningful familial support. This dissertation reinforces the importance of understanding and supporting families in public safety occupations.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".