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Resilient Minds: Building the Psychological Strength of Firefighters

September 16, 2019/in News & Updates /by hhildebrandt

The Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch (CMHA) and the BC Municipal Safety Association (BCMSA) have partnered to engage and inform firefighters in four areas crucial to their work:

  1. building psychological resiliency
  2. trauma
  3. psychological distress
  4. trauma-informed responses

BCMSA will begin offering CMHA’s program Resilient Minds: Building the Psychological Strength of Firefighters to both volunteer and career municipal firefighters across the province starting in January 2020.

Read more: Media-Release-20190919-RM-BCMSA-Final-2.pdf (124 downloads)

For more information, contact Justin Chouhan, Manager of Audit & Training Services.

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