Your tools and apparatus need preventative maintenance.  Is your body any different?  Is your mind?

Here you’ll find what you and your crew can learn and do BEFOREHAND.

• Share the Load National Volunteer Fire Council
  • A series of valuable resources to help educate and train first responders about the importance of behavioral health and provide resources, tips, and tools to help departments, first responders, and families address these issues.
• Suicide in the Wildland Fire Service - Addressing wildland firefighters specifically, the two reports available on this page provide information on suicide and mental health in the wildland firefighting community.
• 5 Ways to Help a Depressed Firefighter - Article from FireRescue1
• Mental Health Screening 
  • Brief, anonymous, and confidential screening to see if you or someone you care about should connect with a mental health professional.
    
• mantherapy.org  - Man Therapy is a tool designed to help men with their mental health
• National Alliance on Mental Illness - Utah Chapter
  • NAMI Utah’s mission is to ensure the dignity and improve the lives of those who live with mental illness and their families through support, education and advocacy.
• everyonegoeshome.com  The goal of the Everyone Goes Home® Program is to reduce the number of preventable firefighter line-of-duty injuries and deaths.
• Watch for signs of stress
  
• How co-workers can be supportive - CISM Handout