Family First Responder launch coming in 2023 – Sign up now!
Using the data we have gathered from Canadian focus groups, online survey, numerous consultations wi…
Thank-you for your interest in our Family First Responder project. With thanks to all our study participants, we have now completed the pilot testing of the Re: Building Families program. We will be updating this site regularly with study results and links to publications and presentations. Continue to check back regularly, and do reach out to us if you have any questions.
Building mental health programming for police, fire, and paramedic members and their families.
OUR PURPOSE
Firefighters, police and paramedics, Public Safety Personal (PSP), experience heightened operational stressors, including: shift work, exposure to traumatic events, threats to personal safety, witnessing current or past accidents, homicides, assaults, and suicide. Prevalence rates for posttraumatic stress injuries and operational stress injuries range from 8% to 44% and suggest that at least 25,000 full-time Canadian PSP have experienced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in their lifetime.
Existing support systems for PSP generally neglect including family members. Thus, our study addressed this gap by designing and examining the effectiveness of an intervention program for PSP family members aimed to support and strengthen the mental health of the PSP member.
STUDY OBJECTIVES
Understand
the impact of workplace stress on first responders’ family members.
Identify
coping supports valued by first responders’ family members.
Determine
preferred modes of delivery that make interventions accessible to first responder family members.
Welcome to FamilyFirstResponder.ca
FamilyFirstResponder.ca has launched! Thank you for visiting. We are designing and evaluating a supp…
