Photos from the 7th Annual Conference of FSPA
The FSPA Conference held October 3-4, 2024, in Washington, D.C. was well attended and a HUGE SUCCESS based upon comments and feedback from those in…
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The Missing Presence: “Nine Sisters” at the 7th Annual Fire Service Psychology Association Conference
The 7th Annual Conference of the Fire Service Psychology Association (FSPA), held on October 3-4, 2024, in Washington, D.C. was a significant event aimed at…
How about that 7th Annual FSPA Conference!
What a conference it was! As the Conference Project Manager, I could not be more proud of the work put in by the FSPA members…
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…
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…