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Posts Tagged ‘peer support’

New law boosts mental health support for Californian firefighters

By Laurine Lassalle | October 29, 2019
Photo by Laurine Lassalle

When Oakland Fire Department (OFD) Captain Christopher Foley and his coworkers learned that one of them had been killed in a San Jose shooting, not long after 36 people died in the Ghost Ship warehouse fire, they needed help—and found it in the department’s peer support program.

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