Webinar

The Firefighter Mindshift: Leading the Behavioral Health Reset

Monday, June 16, 2025 | 1 pm Eastern [60 minutes]

As a firefighter, you absorb trauma whether or not you realize it. You carry the incidents with you; you can pinpoint them on a map of your response area. Where that infant died in a vehicle crash. Where you convinced a suicidal teenager not to jump. Where you responded over and over to the homeless encampment, until one day the Narcan wasn’t enough.  

As a leader, how you process this trauma affects not only you, but those you lead, too. Join Lexipol as we kick off the 2025 Firefighter Safety Stand Down: Break the Stigma: Behavioral Health Reset. This webinar will use the “reset” framework to explore the connection between mental health, performance and leadership – and to provide a new perspective on promoting mental wellness in the fire service. 

You will learn:

  • Why mental health is a spectrum, not a binary concept.
  • How to develop a resilient mindset when it comes to working on your mental health.
  • The role company officers and other leaders play in smashing the stigma around behavioral health issues.
  • Strategies to help you effectively care for your people, from the recruit academy to retirement. 

Presented by:

Battalion Chief (Ret.) Bruce Bjorge
Fire & EMS Ambassador
Lexipol		 Dr. Jaime Brower
Vice President of Peer Support & Clinician Training & Certification, Lexipol
Chief (Ret.) Dave Funkhouser
Meridian (ID) Fire Department		 Deputy Chief Billy Goldfeder
Loveland-Symmes (OH) Fire Department
 
Deputy Fire Chief Darin Wallentine
Sarasota County (FL) Fire Department		  

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