New Approaches to Occupational Behavior Health: Implementing Firefighter Life Safety Initiative 13

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• Personal Author:
  Gist R ; Taylor V
• Description:
  The National Fallen Firefighters Foundation (NFFF) received NIOSH sponsorship for a 2-day conference, held March 1-2, 2013. Attendees received a thorough overview of work products developed through a five-year research to practice effort pairing some of the nation's leading research and practice organizations generating work related to occupational exposure to atypically stressful events with six major fire, rescue, and emergency medical services constituency organizations. The object of that series of initiatives, operationalizing one of the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives generated by NFFF's Everyone Goes Home(R) program, was to create practical, accessible solutions for direct application by fire and EMS agencies and their behavioral health providers. Attendees at the sponsored conference were introduced to a series of web-based programs developed to support consensus protocols for organizational response in atypically stressful occupational events, new models and standards for behavioral health assistance programs, and evidence supported models for effective peer involvement in supporting both individual and team resilience. The sessions first provided an overview of the process used to generate the models and then presented each component and the products created to facilitate its delivery at the local level. These included downloadable continuing education modules for agency-level implementation of After Acton Review and Curbside Manner components; web access to screening and assessment tools for behavioral health providers; web access to materials help fire and EMS agencies design RFPs and contracts for behavioral health assistance programs and to help potential vendors to design effective and affordable proposals; web access to an training program in cognitive behavior therapy approaches to treating clinical conditions, specifically created for clinicians serving fire and EMS agencies by the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center at the Medical University of South Carolina; and introduction of a "train the trainer" project to support regional dissemination of the NCPTSD Stress First Aid peer support model. Attendees included 58 personnel representing 45 fire, rescue, and emergency medical services constituency organizations with active health and safety programs, with the intent of generating a broad base of industry involvement in dissemination and adoption of FLSI 13. As of the date of this report, 684 trainers representing 149 fire, rescue, and emergency medical services agencies have completed the training elements, generating a potential reach of 36,548 fire, rescue, and emergency medical services personnel. Additionally, 28 trade publications in a range of venues have promoted the program and its various components, providing access to online training modules and other supporting materials. NFFF appreciates the support of NIOSH in successfully launching this important advancement in supporting the application evidence supported best practices to the behavioral health impacts of fire, rescue, and emergency medical services careers on the employees who provide our communities' first response to emergencies. The impacts of the sponsored event continue to unfold as more agencies throughout the nation take advantage of solutions developed for readily accessed, low cost utilization. [Description provided by NIOSH]
• Subjects:
  Behavior Emergency Responders Firefighters Mental Health Nervous System Occupational Health Safety Stress, Psychological
• Keywords:
  Emergency Medical Services Workers EMS Fire Fighters First Responders Information Dissemination Job Stress Mental Health Occupational Health Programs Rescue Workers
• Series:
  Grant Final Reports
• Publisher:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Document Type:
  Text
• Funding:
  Grant
• Genre:
  Final Grant Report
• Place as Subject:
  Maryland ; OSHA Region 3
• CIO:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH)
• Division:
  OEP - Office of Extramural Programs
• Topic:
  Workplace Safety & Health
• Location:
  North America
• Pages in Document:
  1-19
• NIOSHTIC Number:
  nn:20054420
• NTIS Accession Number:
  PB2019-100560
• Citation:
  Atlanta, GA: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, R13-OH-010388, 2015 Mar; :1-19
• Contact Point Address:
  Richard Gist, Ph.D., Kansas City Fire Department, 635 Woodland Avenue, Suite 2100, Kansas City, MO 64106
• Email:
  Richard.Gist@kcmo.org
• Federal Fiscal Year:
  2015
• Performing Organization:
  National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, Emmitsburg, Maryland
• Peer Reviewed:
  False
• Start Date:
  20130201
• Source Full Name:
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• End Date:
  20140131
• Collection(s):
  National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
• Main Document Checksum:
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• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/218812/cdc_218812_DS1.pdf
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