It's time for us to begin featuring our guest speakers at our upcoming 2024 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 11, 2024. Please welcome Tracy Van Deventer! Tracy Van Deventer grew up in Moscow, Idaho and at the age of sixteen she and her family moved across the country to North Carolina. She started [...]
We are excited to share that today, we presented our Basic Peer Team Training to our friends at Berkeley County Emergency Medical Services. This training provided eight members of their organization with a dedicated group of people to get their internal peer team started. Our Lowcountry team will continue to support them as they grow [...]
This past Thursday, we hosted the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation Program "Taking Care of Our Own". We were pleased to have twenty-seven people registered from many Lowcountry departments. The program prepares us for the potential of a line-of-duty death in our own department or, in others where we may be of assistance. Subjects covered included [...]
Recently, Steve Gillespie of our Team presented his "Surviving the Job" program to all members of the Isle of Palms Fire Department. This program is one you must attend to add to your training folder as it recounts Steve's time as a member of the City Of New York Fire Department. Steve's knowledge and experience [...]
Fire departments don’t know when they will have a line-of-duty or serious injury. Do you have a plan in place? Do you know how to notify survivors in a timely and proper way? Are your personnel records current? Do you know how to access Federal, State, and local benefits? Targeted for all fire service personnel, [...]
Robin Phoenix Johnson CEO Best Medicine Brigade Executive Director, HEALHARIOUS: Humor Therapy for Veterans Please join us in welcoming Lieutenant Colonel (Retired) Robin Johnson as a speaker at our 2023 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 13, 2023, at the Omar Shrine Temple in Mt. Pleasant, South Carolina. She served over twenty years in [...]
Gerald Mishoe is currently the Executive Director of the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team, Inc. headquartered in the coastal area of South Carolina. He has been involved in the South Carolina Fire Service since 1967 as a firefighter, paramedic, company officer, and a chief officer. In 2007, he was asked to lead the development of the [...]
Developing and Disseminating Virtual Tools to Address Behavioral Health Among Firefighters Angela Moreland, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor at the National Crime Victims Research and Treatment Center (NCVC) at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC). Dr. Moreland serves as the Director of the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health, which provides resources and support [...]
The 2023 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit Welcomes DeLynn Morgan, Program Manager South Carolina Department of Mental Health First [...]
"From Surviving to Thriving " Eric Stephenson, Executive Director First Responders Peer Support Network Newport, North Carolina Eric Stephenson is the Executive Director of the First Responders Peer Support Network located in Carteret County, N.C. He retired as a Captain of the Atlantic Beach, North Carolina Fire Department after dedicating twenty-nine years to the [...]
Congratulations to our teammates Jim Morrell & Laura Stephenson for completing the ICISF Pastoral Critical Intervention I & II program last week in North Charleston. We are proud of you!
Finished up the second day of our training with the Charleston Fire Department Peer Team today. The afternoon session included presentations by two of our clinicians who work with our first responders. Pictured here is Sherie Corbett of Healing Roots Behavioral Health Center in Summerville as she speaks to the group. Special thanks to [...]
Our Team provides many training programs that are available to be offered at individual departments and organizations around our State. These programs were developed to provide behavioral health training in one or two hour blocks to accommodate a volunteer department's night or weekend trainings and to fit the normal training schedules of our paid departments [...]
HOLDING THE STANDARD This program is a hard hitting, straight forward look at the Fire Service of today and the traditions of the past that have shaped it. It addresses firehouse etiquette, laying ground rules, mindset and right versus effective. This program offers and honest evaluation of where we are today in the Fire Service. [...]
The Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team, Inc. is pleased to announce that our Sixth Annual Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit will be held at the Omar Shrine Temple in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina on July 13, 2023. This year’s Summit will include exhibits, multiple vendors, and exciting new speakers who will share their expertise with all [...]
We look for any opportunity to meet with our emergency services personnel to share with them about our program and resources. We believe that it is important to make those contacts in the early days of their careers. Speaking at recruit classes and new hire training is an important way to accomplish that task. [...]
Today we visited the Summerville Fire Department Recruit class to provide information on our Team and how they can ask for assistance. It is always a pleasure to share information with our new folks on resources available to take care of them and their families. It also gives us an opportunity to get to know [...]
On January 26 and 27, 2023, representatives of the Quell Foundation in Tucson, Arizona will be in Charleston to present their First Responders Sound the Alarm program. Our friends of the Charleston County Consolidated 911 Center are hosting this program open to all interested participants. Visit the link at www.quellfrrp.org to see what it’s all [...]
We are just a few days away from our 2022 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit! We have 8 amazing speakers and 25 exhibitors lined up for a day of learning and networking with over 225 other attendees from fire, EMS, 911, law enforcement, clinicians, chaplains, and many more who support our first responders on a [...]
"Understanding Complicated Grief and Compassion Burnout” We are pleased to announce that Dr. Tracy Hejmanoski is returning to join us this year by popular demand after presenting at our 2021 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit! She is a licensed clinical psychologist, with 20 years of clinical expertise working with [...]
"TAKING CARE OF OURSELVES, WHILE TAKING CARE OF OTHERS” Melissa Camp is the Director for Behavioral Health Services at Colleton Medical Center in Walterboro, South Carolina. Before working in the inpatient setting at Colleton, Melissa worked for 16 years in community mental health, where her roles included managing the Assessment Mobile Crisis Team, First Responder Support [...]
“Hope Out of Darkness” Finding Purpose after a Critical Incident Andrew Litzell is a 23-year veteran of Law Enforcement and is currently serving as a Captain with the Florida Highway Patrol. Andrew's experience began in 1998 as a Deputy Sheriff with the Putnam County Sheriff's Office where he worked for almost four years. While [...]
Paige Hood Tyner, widow of Charleston County Sheriff’s Office Master Deputy Keith M. Tyner, IV, will offer a presentation about her experiences as a law enforcement suicide survivor. It is her hope that her words will open minds and hearts to hear and to consider the potentially life-changing trauma experienced by many first responders and [...]
We are heading towards an amazing day on July 14th! Registration numbers are outpacing last year setting up an amazing opportunity to network with some of the best in the emergency services behavioral health world. For all of you that need CEUs for recertification, the National Association of Social Workers will be awarding 6.5 hours [...]
We were on the road today to Conway to present our introductory behavioral health program to the current Horry County Fire Rescue recruit class. We met an amazing group of young men and women who are about halfway through their training to take their places in the department. It is always a pleasure to visit [...]
Come join us for a great day of learning and networking! Amazing opportunity for anyone interested in behavioral health care for our first responders. Speakers from law enforcement, Fire Service, EMS, 911 Telecommunications, and clinicians with exhibitors from multiple treatment facilities, hospitals, and others who support our first responders. CEUs will be awarded to our [...]
We were pleased to have the Myrtle Beach Fire Department’s Recruit Class join us today in Charleston. They received our Behavioral Health Awareness training presentation that included an explanation of our program, its origin, and how it has developed in its fifteen-year history. Our discussion included how they can access peer support assistance from us [...]
This has been a busy week for us as our Pee Dee Coordinator Lee Hopkins was at West Florence Fire Department on Tuesday night providing behavioral health awareness training and support to their members while our Executive Director Gerald Mishoe visited Beaufort County to provide Disaster Psychology training to their county Citizens Emergency Response Team [...]
This past Friday, we took a trip to be with the Horry County Fire Rescue recruit training class currently underway in Conway. It was especially pleasing to see sixty-three new members of HCFR as they go through their initial training before becoming full-fledged members of the department. Normally, HCFR brings their recruit class to Charleston [...]
Our Team is proud to announce the scheduling of our 5th Annual Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit! Registration will open after the holidays. We wanted to give you a chance to put it on your calendar and on your conference schedules. Our Team works hard to improve this Summit each year. We promise [...]
Dorchester County EMS will host the Dorchester Regional EMS Conference on November 11, 2021 at the Cambria Hotel in Summerville, South Carolina. Outstanding instructors on multiple subjects will be a part of the day. Registration is $ 10.00 per person. Take advantage of this great opportunity to network with all emergency services personnel in attendance. [...]
Come join us in Jacksonville, Florida on October 26th for the 3rd Annual "Bearing the Burden" Summit being presented by the First Responder Project. Special guest will be our friend and brother, Travis Howze. Come join us and experience this informative event! Many of our Team will be in attendance and we look [...]
On September 8th, we participated in training with members of the Charleston Fire Department as Amanda Custer of The Middle Path in Knoxville, Tennessee presented her new program “MindResponse.” The program is based on the use of Dialectic Behavioral Therapy (DBT) as a method of learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance. While [...]
We were pleased this past week to provide training to the City of Goose Creek Fire Department Recruit Class. The recruits finished their initial training this week and are now taking their places in the department. Congratulations to each of them as they continue to grow in their careers. Our hats are off to the [...]
In July, we traveled to the Burton Fire District in Beaufort County to present two of our behavioral health programs “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself” and “Step Up and Step Out” to all three shifts. By dividing each shift, we were able to have a morning class for half the shift and an [...]
Suicide is a subject that we find difficult to discuss. Many of us have been touched by the tragedy of having someone take their own life. Whether it is a close friend, a relative, or a co-worker, suicide can cause great pain to all those affected. Who better to help than those of us who [...]
Today, we hosted Myrtle Beach Fire Department's Recruit Class # 33 as a part of their training. We started the morning off with our "Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself" Behavioral Health Awareness Program, followed by a tour of the North Charleston American LaFrance Fire Museum. After lunch, we toured the Charleston 9 Memorial [...]
Preparation and planning are in full swing for our Summit coming up on July 14, 2021. We hope you will plan to join us for what we promise will be a wonderful experience. We have a full slate of amazing speakers, great exhibitors, interesting displays, good food, including lunch, and great networking opportunities. Come join [...]
We are excited to share that with three months to go until our event, we have over 100 people to date who have registered for our 2021 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 14, 2021 here in Charleston. We also have twelve vendors/exhibitors registered to date that will display their programs and/or products related [...]
2021 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit Proudly Welcomes Dr. Yulia Gavrilova [...]
Integrated Care for First Responders: Clinical, Medical, and Neuroscience Dr. Beau Nelson, DBH, LCSW Dr. Nelson is the Chief Clinical Officer and works with the Neurosciences Department at FHE Health and the Shatterproof program for First Responders in Deerfield Beach, Florida. He directs all programs and clinical staff, and administratively [...]
Today, we visited the Charleston Fire Department Recruit Class to present our Behavioral Health Awareness program. This class is provided to educate them on the resources our program provides to them and their families. We appreciate their making us feel welcome and we are excited for them as they will graduate next Friday, April 16th, [...]
"Still Riding" We are pleased to share that Dr. David Griffin will be one of our featured speakers at our Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit being held in Charleston on July 14, 2021. David Griffin is a Battalion Chief and Shift Commander in the Charleston, South Carolina Fire Department. He was the operator of [...]
“Straight Talk’’ Shifting Our Attention! [...]
We have completed our lineup of speakers for our Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 14th. Stay tuned as we will continue to introduce them here in the coming weeks leading up to July. You don't want to miss an opportunity to spend the day with these amazing folks! Registration for attendees and exhibitors [...]
We have completed our lineup of speakers for our Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 14th. Stay tuned as we will continue to introduce them here in the coming weeks leading up to July. You don't want to miss an opportunity to spend the day with these amazing folks! Registration for attendees and exhibitors [...]
Each week, between now and our Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit on July 15th, we will feature one of our guest speakers to introduce them to all of you. Come join us on July 15th for an exciting and informative Summit. Register now on the home page of this website. [...]
We spent some important time today with members of the new Firefighter 1 Class that just started in Berkeley County. Excited to see firefighters from Alvin, Awendaw, Pimlico, Pine Ridge, and Pineville-Russellville Fire Departments. It was a special day as I shared the front of the room with Ashley Taylor, the Training Coordinator for Berkeley [...]
Sunday was another great day as we traveled to the Pimlico Fire Department where they were hosting Berkeley County’s New Firefighter Orientation Class to seventeen new firefighters from Pimlico, Cross, C & B, and Pineville Russellville Fire Departments. A portion of this class is devoted to providing them with information on the various resources available [...]
Often, we are blessed to be able to talk to our younger firefighters in our communities, many of them just starting out in their careers in the Fire Service. As an old gray-haired junkyard dog, my heart is filled with excitement when I have the opportunity to learn from these young people. There is much [...]
As we plan to continue to move forward in the New Year in our mission of providing behavioral health care for our emergency services personnel and their families, we are painfully aware of the continued threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. While we joined many others in curtailing activities in 2020, we are entering 2021 with [...]
Come join the Georgia Public Safety Peer Team at their “Importance of Peer Support” seminar on January 15 & 16th, 2021 in Alto, Georgia. Alto is in the northwest part of the state not far from the South Carolina state line. There is limited seating for both days so please RSVP at johnbow75@gmail.com or Cindywright32@gmail.com [...]
Today, Lee Hopkins, our Team's Pee Dee Region Coordinator and I traveled to Horry County to present our “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself?” Behavioral Health Awareness program to the current HCFR Recruit Class. Our relationship with our friends at Horry County Fire Rescue began quite a few years ago and we have [...]
On Wednesday of last week, we completed our Peer Support training program at Dorchester County EMS with a total of 21 people. We are excited as the following departments and/or organizations were a part of the program: Joint Base Charleston Fire Department, Dorchester County EMS, Dorchester County 911 Center, Berkeley County EMS, Berkeley County 911 [...]
On Wednesday, October 28th was a special day for our Team and our new Teammates from Dorchester County EMS. A while back we helped as DCEMS recruited members from their ranks to become a part of their new internal peer team as well as members of our Lowcountry EMS Support Team. We assisted Jennifer Brown [...]
On Tuesday night, October 27th, our Team presented "Are You Really Taking Care of Yourselves", our flagship behavioral health awareness program, to 36 members of the Goose Creek Rural Fire Department. This program was offered as our contribution to GCRFD's "The Goose Creek Difference" the department's initiative to improve their department and the safety and [...]
The Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team is proud to be part of this great project! It is a great honor for our Team to serve as a partner for the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health. Check out the Center's website at www.ccfbh.org for more exciting information! Since 2011, the Team at the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health [...]
Our Team always looks forward to this conference to visit with those of you we don't see often. Hats off to the Executive Committee for making this difficult decision. Continue to take care of yourselves. We'll see you soon.
Due to the CV-19 Crisis and concerns about traveling and assembling in a large group, the 2020 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit has been postponed and rescheduled for November 5, 2020, in Charleston, South Carolina. We believe this postponement will give participants an opportunity to get back to work and resume some normalcy in their [...]
The South Carolina State Firefighters’ Association’s Leadership Institute is offered to individuals to improve and develop fire service leadership at the state level through networking and education pertaining to the many facets of the fire service profession. The Leadership Institute is a twelve-month leadership development and educational process in an executive level environment emphasizing communications [...]
Our 2020 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit is in the full planning stage for July. During the next few months, we will featuring information here about our presenters. The line-up is impressive and we are excited to share them with you. U.S. Marine Corps Veteran, former Police Officer, and Firefighter Travis Howze is an international [...]
On Tuesday, February 4, 2020, we will be presenting our "Introduction to Peer Training" program in our Lower Coastal Region at the Ridgeland Fire Department in Jasper County. Chief Brad Bonds, our Lower Coastal Region Team Coordinator, will host this class. If anyone is interested in attending this training, we have some room for people [...]
This past Friday we hosted the Horry County Fire Rescue's Recruit Class. We have each of their recruit classes travel here to spend the day with us when they are nearing the completion of their training. Our day started out in our Team's classroom with NCFD Captain Christan Rainey presenting his Men Against Domestic Violence [...]
LOWCOUNTRY EMERGENCY SERVICES BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CLINICIANS’ ACADEMY We are excited to announce the creation of the Lowcountry Emergency Services Behavioral Health Clinicians’ Academy is to provide current and potential behavioral health clinicians with a curriculum to introduce them to the culture of the various disciplines of emergency services organizations. These organizations will include [...]
On Thursday night, we traveled to Florence County with our brother and teammate Steve Gillespie as he presented his "Surviving the Job" program to Howe Springs Fire Rescue and other surrounding departments. Many thanks to Chief Billy Dillon and all his folks for the hospitality and support of this important program. If you have not [...]
The Lowcountry Firefighter/EMS/911 Support Teams are partnering with ThinkBoxing of Charleston and the Sweat Box Gym West of the Ashley to offer an informational clinic to introduce Thinkboxing as a valid alternative to traditional behavioral health care and self care. Keep watching as we will post the time and date on our Events page for [...]
We have been training in the Florida Keys this week the Islamorada Fire Department. What a great experience to provide our behavioral health program to help these folks as they build their department’s peer team! In addition to providing our training to their firefighters and command staff during the day, we also provided our “Loving [...]
We always enjoy a lot of activity with our old refurbished firehouse that was once Station 5 of the North Charleston Fire Department. Thanks to the generosity of Chief Greg Bulanow and the Mayor and Council of the City of North Charleston, it has been our home now for 6 years. We are pleased to [...]
Lee, Michelle, and I had an amazing experience with Orangeburg EMS this week while providing behavioral health training during their monthly in-service classes. Special thanks to Director Danny Rivers for letting us present to his folks and to Training Officer Reese Welch for facilitating the class and inviting us to come. We also appreciate the [...]
Last week was a whirlwind of activity! Five training classes delivered, BBQ and golf tournament fundraisers completed and over 100 personal contacts with first responders done. This week is shaping up to be another busy one as we delivered the final two classes in the series to the MPFD yesterday, hosted our bi-monthly Bible Study [...]
Tonight, our Team hosted a meeting with members of the Center for Firefighter Behavioral Health (cffbh.org) and several of our local clinicians who work with our first responders. This focus group was designed to gather input from our clinicians to develop a new module through the Center's helping-heroes.org website. This module will be made available to [...]
We are excited as plans for our 2019 Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit come together. The Summit, to be held at the Omar Shrine Temple in Mt. Pleasant, on July 25th, 2019, will bring together a host of us involved in behavioral health services for firefighters, EMS, 911 telecommunicators, law enforcement officers, and their families. [...]
We are pleased to share that today we completed our “Introduction to Peer Team Training” program with six new members of our Team. Pictured here are Richard McElhaney of the Ridgeland Fire Department, Instructor Lee Hopkins, our Pee Dee Region Coordinator, Wilbur Daley, of the Jasper County Fire Department, Retired, who joins us as a [...]
We were pleased to host the Myrtle Beach Fire Rescue Recruit Class today for training, a tour of the North Charleston Fire Museum, and a visit to the Charleston 9 Memorial Park. Good luck to all of you as you prepare for your new career in the MBFD. We always enjoy it when these recruit [...]
Last Thursday, we completed the initial training for the Charleston Fire Department Peer Team and we are pleased to have created a partnership between our Teams. This Team training was preceded, in the last quarter of 2018, with informational meetings with CFD members throughout all their stations on all three shifts. Our Lowcountry Team began [...]
On Monday and Wednesday of this past week, our Pee Dee Region Coordinator, Lee Hopkins and our 911 Telecommunicator Support Team Coordinator, Michelle Brown traveled to Kingstree to provide our Behavioral Health Awareness program, “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself?” to 34 members of the Williamsburg County 911 Center, Williamsburg County EMS, the Williamsburg [...]
In our mission of taking care of our brothers and sisters in our emergency services family, we often provide information and training to our firefighters, EMS personnel, and 911 telecommunicators to help them understand the need for behavioral health care and all that we offer. During that training, we use analogies often to illustrate our [...]
"Surviving the Job" with Steve Gillespie, FDNY Retired April 16th 2019, at 6:30 p.m., Nexton Elementary School in Summerville, SC. All are welcome to attend! Program hosted by the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team and the Pine Ridge Fire Department Steve Gillespie’s career as a first responder, police officer, and a firefighter began in 1983 with [...]
On Thursday, February 28th, our Team completed our new one day Introductory Peer Support Training program with members of the Murrell's Inlet Garden City Fire Department. Over the last three weeks, we have worked with these 53 folks on all shifts. We thank all of them for the opportunity to roll out this new approach [...]
The Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team, Inc. is proud to host the "Surviving the Job" program presented by Lt. Steve Gillespie, FDNY Retired. This program will be held at the North Charleston City Hall Council Chambers located at 2500 City Hall Lane in North Charleston, S.C. on Friday, February 22, 2019, from 9:00 a.m. until 12:00 [...]
Our Team is pleased to announce our second annual Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit. Visit us in Charleston and plan to stay overnight or through the weekend in our beautiful City. Come join us for an in-depth discussion of emergency services behavioral health programs and resources being provided for our first responders. Participants in this [...]
Today was another special day for our Team as eight of us traveled to the Lowcountry Equine-Assisted Psychotherapy (L.E.A.P.) stables on Wadmalaw Island for a class with Kathleen Broughan and her folks. The class exposed us to working with animals to learn team building skills and techniques to improve ourselves and our ability to help [...]
REPOSTED ON OCTOBER 11, 2018 FROM OUR PEE DEE COORDINATOR LEE HOPKINS: "We suffered another firefighter suicide yesterday in our state. We have to have a statewide push to get our Step Up & Step Out program out! But, also we have to have support to make this work! We have to work TOGETHER as [...]
This has been an extraordinary week as we have completed three days of station visits with the Charleston Fire Department in our relaunch of their internal peer team. We were able to visit with fourteen companies across three shifts to provide them with information on our new combined team and methods of accessing services. [...]
We completed this busy training week by providing classes to our Colleton County Rescue brothers and sisters with our “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourself” Behavioral Health Perspective and our “Step Up & Step Out” Suicide Prevention and Awareness program. We presented two times on Thursday and finished up with a third class [...]
We always enjoy training with our emergency services personnel in our region. Today was another great day for us as we presented our “Are You Really Taking Care of Yourselves” - A Behavioral Health Awareness Prospective during in-service training with our friends of Berkeley County EMS. Thanks to all in attendance for your [...]
Soon we will observe the first year of our “Step Up & Step Out” Suicide Awareness & Prevention Initiative. While we acknowledge many other programs like ours around the country, “Step Up & Step Out” is our Team’s contribution to the work of many others who share our desire to address the issue of suicide [...]
One of the great days for us is when we visit with various recruit classes from departments in our region. Whether it is Horry County, Myrtle Beach, Bluffton, North Charleston or Summerville, it is always a pleasure to meet new people coming into the Fire Service. Today, we got an early start to our week [...]
On Tuesday of this week, we gathered with an amazing group of people as the Lowcountry Firefighter, EMS and 911 Telecommunicators Support Teams hosted our first ever “Emergency Services Behavioral Health Summit” in Lake City, South Carolina. All in attendance share the love for the mission of providing for the emotional health of our firefighters, [...]
On Saturday, we participated in the ”Healing Heroes” continuing education class in Walterboro at the Lowcountry Regional EMS Office with the SC F.A.S.T. Team. We enjoyed a presentation on “First Responders and Trauma” presented by Laura Tait of the First Responder Support Team and DeLynn Morgan of the Charleston Mental Health Center in Charleston. We [...]
Today was another special day for our Team as we hosted the Horry County Fire Rescue Recruit Class. We started the morning by sharing the history and mission of our Team before our Chaplain, Doug Farmer, presented our ”Finding Balance” program, so important to their development and their future. After lunch, we headed to the [...]
Today was another special day for our Team as ten of us traveled to Darlington County and the Equine Intervention, LLC farm. The purpose of our visit was to receive training that will enhance our ability to provide services to our emergency services personnel and their families. Specifically, we were introduced to the use of [...]
This morning David Reindollar and Gerald Mishoe of our Team participated in the Fire Chief’s Medical School 2018 at Roper Hospital. The program was offered to provide information to participants on NFPA 1582. Subjects included “Preventative Cardiology for the Fire Service”, “Cancer in The Fire Service, What the Research is Telling Us”, “Firehouse Workouts: [...]
Today we began to renew and strengthen our relationship with the Charleston Fire Department by providing information on our Team and its services to their newest recruit class. Five of these men will join their assigned companies this weekend while the remaining eight will complete their EMT training before joining the ranks of the CFD. [...]
We are pleased to share our new association with Equine Intervention LLC of Hartsville, South Carolina and Lowcountry Equine-Assisted Psychology (L.E.A.P.) here in the Lowcountry on Wadmalaw Island. Both organizations bring a new dimension to behavioral health care for our emergency services personnel and their families by using horses in a therapeutic setting to ease [...]
Come join us for an in-depth discussion of emergency services behavioral health programs and services being provided for our first responders in South Carolina. Participants in this summit will include members from each discipline of emergency services; Fire, EMS, Law Enforcement, and 911 telecommunications, peer team members, clinicians, program administrators, chaplains, and other behavioral health [...]
Today, we attended the South Carolina Public Safety Chaplains’ Association Spring Training at North Charleston City Hall. The theme of today’s meeting was the different types of peer support available to the emergency services personnel in our State. Eric Skidmore of the South Carolina Law Enforcement Assistance Program (LEAP) spoke on their team for law [...]
Today, we attended a quarterly training event for sponsored by the Lowcountry EMS Support Team, the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team and the state F.A.S.T. Team at the Lowcountry Regional EMS office in Walterboro. The class was presented by our Lowcountry EMS Support Team Coordinator Angie Stewart of Beaufort County EMS. Angie came “loaded for [...]
The South Carolina State Firefighters' Association F.A.S.T. Team will be offering their Peer Training program in three different locations around the state in April and May. We recommend this program for anyone interested in being a part of the emergency services behavioral health program in our State. This program also meets the minimum requirements [...]
We are excited that our new 911 Telecommunicators Support Team is coming together. Many of you participated in the first meeting this week and others have since shown an interest in being a part of this new program. While the logo pictured here is not the finished product, it does represent the Team for now. [...]