What is FSPA Doing?
By: Robert Avsec, Fire Service Member A couple of questions that come up frequently to many of us at FSPA go something like these: In…
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Why are we still not investigating firefighter suicides?
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer Somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 firefighters annually are dying from suicide and we don’t know why. Any rebuttal…
FSPA represented at the Congressional Fire Service Institute’s Symposium and Dinner
Members of FSPA traveled to our Nation’s Capital to represent your interests at the Congressional Fire Service Institute’s 34th Annual National Fire and Emergency Services…
Fire Service History: A Primer for Clinicians (And Many Firefighters as Well!)
By: Robert Avsec, battalion chief (Ret.) and Fire Service Member of FSPA “If you want to understand today you have to search yesterday.”Pearl S. Buck,…
Matching the level of mental health services to the needs of firefighters
In this post, I’m hoping to give firefighters and officers, along with psychologists and other mental health clinicians who work with fire department personnel, a…
New Member Perspective
Jeff Stapleton is one of FSPA’s newest members (Like six days old as a FSPA member!) and when I read his Member Profile here on…
2023 Conference: Speakers & Topics
“Developing Psychological Wellness Programs in the Fire Service.”–Atlanta Fire Rescue Chief Rodrick “Rod” Smith and Dr. Carla Sutton Moore. “Developing a Behavioral Health Access Program…
6th Annual Conference of the Fire Service Psychology Association
Hosted by the Atlanta (Ga.) Fire Rescue Department October 5-6, 2023 Members of the Fire Service Psychology Association assembled in Atlanta for two days of…
Pre-Conference Events, October 4, 2023
Hosted by the Atlanta (Ga.) Fire Rescue Department and the Georgia Tech Environmental Health & Safety Division. The Pre-Conference events took place on the Georgia…
