This course from the National Volunteer Fire Council and the American Psychological Association's Center for Organizational Excellence is designed to empower fire department leadership to promote and support their departments. Based on the framework from the Psychologically Healthy Fire Departments initiative, this course focuses on six key practices—member involvement, health and safety, member growth and development, work-life balance, member recognition, and effective communication—to facilitate member well-being and department functioning. This will help leadership become better equipped to recognize, mitigate, and support behavioral health issues within departments while overcoming cultural stigmas that have plagued the fire/EMS service for far too long.

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