National Fire Service Behavioral Health Symposium

(First Responder Center for Excellence)

First of its kind held in Denver, Colorado

First Responder Center for Excellence – Highlights from days one and two of the, first of its kind, Fire Service Behavioral Health Symposium in Denver, Colorado. It is put on by the First Responder Center for Excellence. Read more about the symposium here – https://www.firstrespondercenter.org/…

The goals of the symposium are:

  • To provide researchers with an opportunity to deliver the latest information that science can tell us regarding behavioral health in the fire service to a broad audience.
  • To disseminate best practices that will enable fire service attendees to transition the known scientific evidence about behavioral health into actionable activity at the department level.
  • To provide fire service attendees with an opportunity to have an open dialogue with researchers and clinicians to discuss pertinent issues and receive first hand recommendations and best practices related to behavioral health awareness and treatment programs at the local level.
  • To enable researchers to gather feedback from primary stakeholders and solicit information regarding needs for future fire service behavioral health research.

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