Wildland Firefighters Behavioral Health Awareness

This presentation involves an overview of behavioral health awareness for wildland firefighters, with an emphasis on understanding emotional and physical stressors. This course covers communication skills, addiction, depression, PTSD/PTSI, suicide statistics, retirement and creating a behavioral health program. The program will:

Introduce participants to emotional and behavioral awareness.
Introduce participants to the various emotional stressors that affect EMS providers, including stress, anxiety, depression, PTSD, suicide, and other behaviors.
Discuss Cultural Brainwashing
Discuss suicide rates within the EMS and fire services.

Jeff Dill

In 2010, Jeff Dill founded Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance (FBHA).

Jeff travels the United States & Canada holding workshops to educate firefighters, dispatchers & EMS about behavioral health awareness, moral injury and suicide prevention. In 2010, FBHA began tracking and validating data on all FF, EMS and dispatcher suicides across the United States. In addition, FBHA offers ten workshops for first responders, counselors/chaplains, family members and preparing for retirement.

Jeff Dill holds a Master’s Degree in Counseling, is a retired Fire Captain at Palatine Rural Fire Protection District in Inverness, Illinois.

Jeff speaks internationally about his work for his brothers and sisters. The past ten years he has travelled over 1,000,000 air miles. His message offers hope and inspires all to enjoy life by understanding their own behavioral health.

On July 1^st, 2021 Jeff was appointed the new Behavioral Health Administrator for Las Vegas Fire & Rescue.