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UC San Diego program reaches 60 agencies; POST, advisory review organizational wellness pilot
Summary
POST and UC San Diego reported on a three‑year organizational wellness contract serving 60 California law‑enforcement agencies, a launch of an evidence‑based curriculum, a new online platform, mentoring and grants and a planned research report in October 2025.
POST staff and researchers from the University of California San Diego reported to the advisory committee on the statewide organizational wellness initiative funded under a three‑year contract that began in fiscal 2022–23.
Grama Nana Diego, law enforcement consultant with POST's Management Counseling and Projects Bureau, said POST entered a 3‑year contract "beginning in 2022, '20 '20 '3 fiscal year with the University of California at San Diego Centers for Integrative Health to design and develop innovative strategies intended to help improve the health and well‑being of peace officers and professional staff" and that the program’s target of 30–60 agencies was reached: "the 60 agency maximum limit was reached in September 2024."
Why it matters: Agencies and wellness providers told the committee they found the program practical and replicable. UC San Diego has developed training for agency wellness coordinators, delivered mentoring, issued small grants to agencies, and launched an open‑source virtual platform called 720Health ("7 20 health") to support ongoing learning.
What POST and UCSD reported: Dr. Cassandra Vieten, research director at UC San Diego’s Centers for Integrative Health, told the committee the program carried out a literature review, interviews, and focus groups across ranks and agencies and produced an evidence‑based curriculum emphasizing awareness, stress reactivity training, purpose, exercise, nutrition, social connection and sleep. She said the coordinator course was POST‑certified in March 2024, updated in July 2024, and that UC San Diego completed the program’s quality assessment in November 2024. The coordinator course was presented five times between May and December 2024 and about 160 individuals attended; a statewide organizational wellness conference in May 2025 drew roughly 165 attendees.
Additional support and outcomes: POST staff said UC San Diego provided subject matter expertise, over 2,500 hours of mentoring, and awarded grants to 45 agencies for implementation items such as exercise supplies. UC San Diego said roughly 850 participants used provided wearable devices (Fitbit) during the program to collect objective activity and sleep data. UC San Diego will provide a data analysis and research findings on correlation between wellness and law‑enforcement outcomes by October 2025.
Field reaction and next steps: Advisory members praised the program. Cordova from California Community Colleges asked whether the wellness‑coordinator training could lead to accredited wellness‑coach credentials; UCSD responded that it teaches coaching skills but suggested a model in which some wellness coaches could be regional or statewide and not agency employees, to protect confidentiality.
Ending: POST and UCSD said they intend to publish organizational‑wellness guidelines later in the summer and to maintain an open‑resource platform for agencies. UC San Diego and POST will deliver a fuller research report and recommendations in October 2025.
