ND EMS Association - Responders First

North Dakota Emergency Medical Services Association

Responders First:

Creating More Wellbeing in Your Agency

Helping rural EMS providers live well and take good care of their emotional and psychological well-being must be a local service priority. Wellbeing and resilience are so much more than training. This is about changing how we think and act. It’s about making it easy and normal for responders to put their wellbeing first and take better care of each other. The “Responders First” training is an ongoing program to help local services improve the experiences of their providers and build in provider wellbeing as a service priority. The purpose of “Responders First” is to support agencies in improving the emotional and psychological health of providers and genuinely help them be resilient and more satisfied in doing their important work.

Interested in bringing this concept to your agency?

"Responders First" is a 2 hour presentation developed to start a discussion about wellbeing within your agency.

The objectives of the presentation:

Discuss the importance of ongoing wellbeing and resilience programing in your agency
Figure out why taking care of ourselves is so difficult
Help providers find more satisfaction and enjoyment (even during difficult times)
The basics of building and supporting wellbeing and resilience
Stop rewarding poor selfcare
The connection between wellbeing, retention, and recruitment
How to make wellbeing, selfcare and resilience an expected and enjoyable part of your service’s ongoing activities