Welcome to
Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance
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In 2010, while educating firefighters across the United States, I began to notice through stories and reports about the number of firefighters who had taken their lives. I began to collect reports through a confidential reporting system in late 2010 through Counseling Services for FIre Fighters. After much research and effort, I realized this was a much larger issue than I thought, and expanded by starting Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance. I am now collecting this data through FBHA also. This confidential report can be found on the list at the left "ff suicide report" or at www.csff.info under the tab “FF Suicide Report”.
The number on the box above are members who were active or retired firefighters who suffered deaths by their own choice. It should not be conceived as one of weakness but one where they might not have believed they had any other options to relieve their pain. FBHA is dedicated to collecting the most accurate numbers regarding FF suicides and then updates this number as information is confirmed. It is also FBHA’s objective to educate all of our brothers and sisters on suicide prevention through our workshop titled “Saving Those Who Save Others” in hopes to limit this number.
Regards,
B/C Jeff Dill
Founder of CSFF & FBHA
Note: Number is from information received from suicides ranging from the years 1880-2012
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By presenting the video below, it is the intent of FBHA to honor Scott Bellucci and to recommend to others, that if you are suffering from depression, PTSD, stress, addictions or other behavioral health issues, please seek help as soon as possible. This video, taken in November of 2011 shows Scott encouraging students that they can overcome personal challenges to succeed in life. Yet, as he championed for others, he forgot the most important person, and that was himself....Rest in Peace Scott.
Dare to Dream 2011 Video
Permission to use this video has been granted by the Bellucci family.
Click here to read--> Father's Letter
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FBHA is pleased to share its enthusiastic
partnership with Safe Call Now. Safe Call Now, an innovative 24-hour crisis
referral program, was formed in 2009 in response to a need recognized within
the public safety community for a means by which police officers or
firefighters experiencing mental health issues or other personal problems could
feel secure coming forward to seek assistance. It is our hope that as a private
resource outside of their department, police officers or firefighters in crisis
will feel more secure to contact Safe Call Now for referrals to appropriate
counseling or treatment before problems escalate. There are many programs out
there to help ordinary citizens, but few exist to specifically help public
safety employees that selflessly give their energy, and sometimes their lives,
to help and protect all of us.
Help Save A Life Today!
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