{"id":882333,"date":"2026-04-09T11:51:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882333\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T11:51:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T11:51:38","slug":"tama-county-sheriff-mandates-mental-wellness-visits-for-staff-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/882333\/","title":{"rendered":"Tama County sheriff mandates mental wellness visits for staff | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[TAMA COUNTY, Iowa] \u2014 The Tama County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time deputies, dispatchers and jail staff.<\/p>\n<p>The Board of Supervisors approved the plan this week. Sheriff Casey Schmidt said the requirement aims to take a proactive approach to mental health for employees who face emotional and traumatic situations on the job.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The ups and downs of that roller coaster ride of the adrenaline and the different types of calls over time, it adds up,&#8221; Schmidt said.<\/p>\n<p>The mental wellness visits will cost about $5,000, which will be covered by the county health fund.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"[TAMA COUNTY, Iowa] \u2014 The Tama County Sheriff&#8217;s Office is requiring yearly mental health visits for all full-time&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":882334,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4317],"tags":[105,3941,24386,218,59950,249588,249587,16,15],"class_list":["post-882333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mental-health","tag-health","tag-health-care","tag-iowa","tag-mental-health","tag-mental-wellness","tag-sheriff-deputies","tag-tama-county","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116374607766848947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=882333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/882333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/882334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=882333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=882333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=882333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}