Hey Chaplain: The Police Wellness Podcast

Updated: 01 Sep 2025 • 204 episodes
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The Hey Chaplain podcast is where cops  encourage each other by sharing their wisdom and experience with the Chaplain. On Hey Chaplain you'll hear from dispatchers and federal agents, Sheriffs and US Marshals, as well as local detectives and patrolmen. From the LAPD to Scotland Yard, the guests on Hey Chaplain deliver advice and insights so that police officers everywhere can survive and thrive. The host, Jared Altic, has almost 30 years of experience serving and counseling military and law enforcement families. The show looks at both the humorous and traumatic sides of police life, sharing wisdom to create healthy cops both at work and at home. New podcast episodes about police life and chaplaincy are available on first, third, and fifth Mondays of each month. Look for occasional special bonus episodes! Share this podcast with a cop or someone who loves a cop.

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Text a Message to the Show Today we"re talking about Field Training Officers and the FTO programs that train police officers once they are on the street.  Our guest today is Steve Kellams from the Blue Canary podcast.  Steve has taught hundreds of police departments in regard to field training issues and how to best ru

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Text a Message to the Show It"s mailbag time! Use the link above to leave a comment or a question and we might use it on a future show! Music is by LesFM Hey Chaplain Update Episode 3Q 2025 Tags: Chaplaincy, Chaplains, ICPC, Law Enforcement, Limited Series, Mail, Microphones, Mini-Series, Podcasting, Radio,  Reporting,

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Text a Message to the Show Today we"re talking to Rick James… no, not that Rick James.  Richard James is a chaplain with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police from the Vancouver, British Columbia area.  He is a former Canadian police officer and has been working in church ministry for several years.  He was also a police c

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Text a Message to the Show Welcome to the Daily ICPC; My name is Jared Altic, and I"m a chaplain with the police department.  This is a limited podcast series from Hey Chaplain, which follows police chaplains Jared Altic and Ward Jenkins to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend the annual training seminar of the ICPC, the in

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Text a Message to the Show On this episode we"re talking to Dr. Olivia Johnson from Blue Wall Institute.  She is a researcher and subject expert on police wellness and specifically on police suicide and she is the jagged little pill stuck in the throat of the huge law enforcement machine that is funneling huge amounts

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Text a Message to the Show Welcome to the Daily ICPC; My name is Jared Altic, and I"m a chaplain with the police department.  This is a limited podcast series from Hey Chaplain, which follows police chaplains Jared Altic and Ward Jenkins to Little Rock, Arkansas to attend the annual training seminar of the ICPC, the in

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