2025 Promoting Peace
On September 18th, Captain DuChene spoke at this year's Promoting Peace Conference about managing mental health as a police officer and the myths on masculinity. He spoke openly about his own experiences spanning the last 25 years, one of those incidents he was called to, was a 2006 motor vehicle crash that took the life of his brother. Years later, in 2019 Captain DuChene turned to OPD’s newly formed embedded mental health – employee wellness program. A mental health clinician on OPD’s team, administered Accelerated Resolution Therapy (ART), to help him process traumatic events, that lingered and affected him for many years. Captain DuChene is thriving and continues to serve OPD as the Patrol Captain.