Strong Foundations for Responders(SFR)
One-Day Course; 7 Contact hours
PTSD and suicide in the first responder services have become a hot button issue due to suicide rates being on the rise. While the need for peer support, CISM teams, and correctly trained clinicians are vital, it is also crucial to teach and encourage resiliency from day one of the academy. Combating the adverse side effects of a first responder career starts before an individual steps foot on an apparatus.
What you will learn:
- How different aspects of life and work situations, difficulties, and stressors can impact the holistic wellness of a first responder
- How to educate and support their first responders in building a strong and resilient physical, emotional, and spiritual well-being
- How and why the strength of a family is essential for a first responder to have a long and healthy career
- The importance of creating a family support program
- How to create various types of support systems to help build a strong personal foundation
- Tips and strategies on building a resiliency program for both the first responder and their family
- Strategies on how to thrive instead of just survive
- Participants will leave with a basic framework of how to put a resiliency program together