How it works
Off The Record is a confidential support network and wellness infrastructure for corrections, law enforcement, military, and other public safety professionals. Through participating organizations, staff gain access to facilitator-led venting sessions, practical resources, confidential check-ins, on-demand tools, and crisis support information within one independent platform. Staff get support they can trust. Organizations gain a clearer understanding of where support may be needed, without access to individual conversations or activity.
The OTR model
Confidential, facilitator-led group sessions bring together people in similar roles, ranks, or stages of the job. Staff can talk openly, listen to others, or simply be present. Trained, neutral facilitators maintain clear ground rules, balanced participation, and a productive close.
Members can access short videos, confidential check-ins, grounding and sleep tools, practical resources, and crisis support information when they need them. Everything is created specifically for corrections, law enforcement, military, and other public safety professionals.
OTR operates separately from participating employers and agencies. OTR does not provide organizations with individual conversations, check-in responses, participation details, or platform activity. Limited safety and legal exceptions are explained before participation.
Depending on the services selected, organizations may receive broad, de-identified themes and aggregate engagement information. No names. No individual statements. No reports identifying who participated. Insights are shared only when enough information is available to protect individual privacy.
Flexible by design
Some organizations already have trusted peer teams, chaplains, EAP services, wellness programs, one-to-one support pathways, or resources their staff use. Others need a more complete system. OTR can provide the platform, organize and deliver your existing offerings, combine them with our resources and support network, or help build the full wellness infrastructure.
Bring your existing programs, contacts, videos, training, resources, and support pathways into one private, organized, easy-to-access hub.
Keep the services and resources that are already working, then add OTR venting sessions, check-ins, on-demand tools, practical programming, and facilitator training.
OTR can provide the platform, programming, venting-session structure, facilitator training, implementation support, and ongoing program development.
You do not have to replace what works to add what is missing.
From setup to ongoing support
We begin with what your organization already offers, where the gaps are, and what your workforce needs. Choose the platform, selected OTR services, a blend of existing and OTR resources, or the complete infrastructure.
OTR configures a dedicated support environment for your organization while remaining separate from workplace systems. Staff receive clear access instructions, privacy information, available session options, resources, support pathways, and crisis information.
Staff can join a confidential venting session, watch a short video, complete a check-in, try an on-demand tool, or connect with support options already available through their organization. No one is required to speak during a session. Staff may share, listen, or take time to become comfortable with the space.
Depending on the selected reporting model, designated organizational leaders may receive broad, de-identified themes showing common pressures, emerging needs, and possible gaps in support. These insights are designed to improve organizational awareness and guide support efforts, not monitor or evaluate individual employees.
Privacy with a purpose
OTR gives staff room to speak honestly while helping organizations better understand what their workforce may be carrying.
Aggregate insights are reported only when there is enough information to protect individual privacy.
Protect the individual. Hear the workforce. Strengthen the organization.
The research behind the model
Simply giving people a place to rant is not the OTR model.
Research does not support the idea that repeatedly expressing anger automatically makes it disappear. Unstructured ranting and rumination can keep people activated or reinforce anger rather than help them move through it.
OTR sessions are structured, time-bounded, and led by trained, neutral facilitators. Clear ground rules prevent personal attacks, repetitive spirals, reckless talk, and sessions that become nothing more than complaint meetings, moving the conversation from release toward reflection, connection, grounding, useful resources, and an appropriate close.
Public-safety peer-support guidance similarly emphasizes specially trained peers, clear policies, confidentiality standards, professional referral pathways, ongoing training, and program evaluation. Peer support is positioned as one part of a broader wellness strategy, not a substitute for professional care.
Thirty minutes to review your current support system, where the gaps may be, and whether OTR is the right fit.
