Expired Creating a Psychologically Healthy Fire Department – Lecture – October 6th, 2023

The National Volunteer Fire Council, in partnership with the American Psychological Association and the Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance, launched the Psychologically Healthy Fire Departments initiative to support firefighters and EMS providers and create healthy, successful departments.

Learn more about the initiative at nvfc.org/phfd

The Creating a Psychologically Healthy Fire Department course is designed to empower fire service leadership to promote and support healthy, high-performing fire/EMS departments.

Based on framework from the Psychologically Healthy Fire Departments (PHFD) initiative, this course focuses on six key practices to facilitate member well-being and department functioning.

Each training participant will receive the PHFD: Implementation Toolkit and the opportunity to make a commitment to create or maintain a psychologically healthy fire department.

**Suffolk County EMS has approved this course as meeting the requirements of the mandatory non-core CME of “Mental Health of EMT”.