LSF is proud to partner with the 2nd Alarm Project to provide trainings for the First Responder Community. This training is offered by Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD, and Lance Butler, Engineer and NW Region Peer Team Coordinator.

We hope you will join us! We ask participants to have cameras on. This is an interactive training; please come prepared to participate!

A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours prior to the training. Please e-mail Robert Hersey at robert.hersey@lsfnet.org with any questions.

About "Building a Behavioral Health Access Program":

A Behavioral Health Access Program, or a BHAP for short, is a comprehensive and operationalized plan which clearly specifies the mental health services first responders and their families may need, where those services are available within their communities, and levels and standards of care that are expected from these services. Its purpose is to ensure education, support, assessment, and intervention for members who may be affected by behavioral health issues. The BHAP has been recognized by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation as a best practice and is becoming a world standard of behavioral healthcare for first responders. This training will provide guidance on building department based BHAPs for first responders and their families.

About Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD:

Dr. Kellie O’Dare is a faculty member at Florida A & M University and the Founder/Director of the 2nd Alarm Project. Dr. O’Dare has actively worked with Florida based first responder agencies to conduct needs assessments, provide capacity building for peer support teams, and develop BHAP programs. She has conducted mental health training with over 1,000 first responders, family members, and leadership teams and functioned as a behavioral health navigator and clinical advisor to peer support teams. She has also served on local and statewide critical incident activations and deployments, including being embedded with Florida Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Force 7 at Surfside, FL in July 2021. While deployed to Surfside, Dr O’Dare and colleagues developed the first statewide plan for first responder mental health services post disaster deployment. She has earned well in excess of 100 hours of continuing education in first responder behavioral health and substance use. She currently has several peer reviewed manuscripts on developing comprehensive resiliency and BHAP programs. She frequently provides consultation and technical assistance to first responder organizations across the country on best practices in building mental wellness programs. Dr. O’Dare also serves as a subject matter expert and non-voting member of the Florida First Responder Suicide Deterrence Task Force.

Dr. O’Dare is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management with the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Florida State University, where she also earned both Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master in Public Administration (MPA) degrees. She is an active researcher with over 50 publications, technical reports, and conference presentations, and has significant experience conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating large scale quantitative, geospatial, and mixed method research projects in both academic and applied settings.

Dr. O’Dare has meaningful personal linkages to the first responder culture. She is the niece of Shawn T. O’Dare, firefighter/paramedic killed in the Line of Duty in Miami-Dade County, and the spouse of a current professional Florida panhandle firefighter/paramedic.

About Lance Butler, Engineer and NW Peer Team Coordinator:

Lance is an Engineer/Paramedic with the Tallahassee Fire Department (TFD) and the He has been with TFD since January 2015, and has been in the fire service since 2007. He is also a member of the Tallahassee Fire Department’s Hazardous Materials Response team. Lance has been the leader of TFD’s Peer Support team since its inception in September of 2019 and is now working with the 2nd Alarm Project to bring awareness of mental health issues and resiliency among first responders to TFD as well as surrounding first responder agencies. He also serves as the NW Regional Coordinator for the FL Firefighters Safety and Health Collaborative Statewide Peer Team. Lance has served on several significant statewide Peer Team deployments, including responding to the NAS Pensacola shooting, Bay County Wildfires, Hurricane Ian, as well as multiple local agency critical incident response efforts.

LSF is proud to partner with the 2nd Alarm Project to provide trainings for the First Responder Community. This training is offered by Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP, and Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD.

We hope you will join us! We ask participants to have cameras on. This is an interactive training; please come prepared to participate!

A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours prior to the training. Please e-mail Robert Hersey at robert.hersey@lsfnet.org with any questions.

About "First Responder Resources and Skill-building for Clinicians":

First responders carry a tremendous amount of stress within their jobs. They encounter potentially traumatic events frequently and may not have the time to process an event before having to manage another possible crisis. Even if the event is not distressing to the first responder, they are managing and assessing individuals who have found the event disturbing. They likely encounter reminders/triggers of prior events on calls, which can pose a challenge. Sometimes those triggers may be related to their own personal experiences, dually impacting them by bringing earlier trauma exposures to surface. The interweave between personal trauma, on the job trauma and having empathy for others’ traumas can be overwhelming and may contribute to an impaired ability to maintain the emotional, physical and mental demands of the job. This training will increase clinicians’ cultural competency to work with first responders and their families.

About Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP:

Michelle is the Lead Clinician for the 2nd Alarm Project. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Master’s Level Certified Addiction Professional (MCAP). Michelle is one of just a few endorsed Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) providers in the state. She has focused her clinical efforts on treating responders struggling with compound issues, including PTSD, trauma, anxiety, substance use, and other mood disturbances. She has significant experience providing clinical oversight to peer support teams, delivers mental health awareness in service and peer support trainings, and has served on many critical incident/clinician response team deployments. Michelle is passionate about serving our first responders and provides high-quality, evidence-based trauma treatment to our community members in need.

About Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD:

Dr. Kellie O’Dare is a faculty member at Florida A & M University and the Founder/Director of the 2nd Alarm Project. Dr. O’Dare has actively worked with Florida based first responder agencies to conduct needs assessments, provide capacity building for peer support teams, and develop BHAP programs. She has conducted mental health training with over 1,000 first responders, family members, and leadership teams and functioned as a behavioral health navigator and clinical advisor to peer support teams. She has also served on local and statewide critical incident activations and deployments, including being embedded with Florida Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Force 7 at Surfside, FL in July 2021. While deployed to Surfside, Dr O’Dare and colleagues developed the first statewide plan for first responder mental health services post disaster deployment. She has earned well in excess of 100 hours of continuing education in first responder behavioral health and substance use. She currently has several peer reviewed manuscripts on developing comprehensive resiliency and BHAP programs. She frequently provides consultation and technical assistance to first responder organizations across the country on best practices in building mental wellness programs. Dr. O’Dare also serves as a subject matter expert and non-voting member of the Florida First Responder Suicide Deterrence Task Force.

Dr. O’Dare is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management with the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Florida State University, where she also earned both Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master in Public Administration (MPA) degrees. She is an active researcher with over 50 publications, technical reports, and conference presentations, and has significant experience conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating large scale quantitative, geospatial, and mixed method research projects in both academic and applied settings.

Dr. O’Dare has meaningful personal linkages to the first responder culture. She is the niece of Shawn T. O’Dare, firefighter/paramedic killed in the Line of Duty in Miami-Dade County, and the spouse of a current professional Florida panhandle firefighter/paramedic.

LSF is proud to partner with the 2nd Alarm Project to provide trainings for the First Responder Community. This training is offered by Brandy Carlson-Moore, MSW, and Lt. Jeff Orange, Statewide Peer Team Coordinator.

We hope you will join us! We ask participants to have cameras on. This is an interactive training; please come prepared to participate!

A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours prior to the training. Please e-mail Robert Hersey at robert.hersey@lsfnet.org with any questions.

About "Leadership in Mental Wellness/Developing SOPs":

Leaders of first responder organizations have the power to promote polices, practices, training, and an organizational culture that prioritizes the well-being of your members. Leaders that choose to invest in and create comprehensive Behavioral Health Access Programs in their departments see the benefits of employee retention, reduced sick leave, improved working conditions, and better customer service within the community. This training will help you gain insight on the leadership specific considerations for building a BHAP and culture change that is tailored to your department and its members’ needs.

About Brandy Carlson-Moore, MSW

Brandy is the Associate Director of the 2nd Alarm Project. She holds a Master of Social Work degree from Florida State University with a specific focus in social policy and administration. After over 22 years in the business and nonprofit sectors, she has a deep and diverse skillset in working with organizational leadership teams, direct social service providers, and first responders. In her most recent role as President of Strategic Empowerment Consulting, Brandy worked with organizations in various capacities

including, but not limited to: grant writing, strategic planning, curriculum development, and mitigating burnout in the workplace.

Brandy has served on nine statewide advisory committees and conducted over 450 trainings on a wide variety of topics such as Board Governance for Nonprofit Organizations, Critical Incident Leadership and Support, Crisis and Disaster Management, and Strategic Planning. Previously, in her work to end domestic violence, she and her team trained hundreds of law enforcement officers and prosecutors throughout Florida on best practices in the investigation and prosecution of domestic violence crimes. Her professional roles have included direct service work, middle management, and executive leadership. Brandy is married to a firefighter and is a mom to two amazing little ones that keep her learning and growing daily.

About Lt. Jeff Orange, Statewide Peer Team Coordinator:

Lt. Orrange is in his 27th year as a firefighter, 19 of which have been served with the Orlando Fire Department. He is currently a Lieutenant Paramedic on an Engine Company and previously Jeff served for 2.5 years as a Lieutenant in the Training Division. Jeff is a husband, father and friend. Armed with passion, empathy, a great

support system and a willingness to help those who mean the most to him, Jeff Orrange has co-founded the Orlando Firefighters Peer Support Team. Jeff is a founding member of the Orlando Firefighters Peer Support team. His team has been deployed following the Pulse tragedy, Las Vegas Shooting, the Parkland shooting, the Surfside Condo collapse and many others. Jeff has been promoting mental wellness through grassroots efforts for many years. He believes that making it through this career mentally as well as physically is paramount.

Jeff currently has the honor of serving as the State-wide Peer Team Coordinator for the Florida Firefighters Safety and Health Collaborative (FFSHC). As Peer Team Coordinator, he is responsible for coordinating with industry leaders, and related agencies to facilitate professional standards, diversified training opportunities, deployments, and other related activities.

LSF is proud to partner with the 2nd Alarm Project to provide trainings for the First Responder Community. This training is offered by Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP, and Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD.

We hope you will join us! We ask participants to have cameras on. This is an interactive training; please come prepared to participate!

A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours prior to the training. Please e-mail Robert Hersey at robert.hersey@lsfnet.org with any questions.

About "Evidence Based Treatment for First Responders":

First responders may have prior counseling experiences that are rooted in interpersonal, social and professional “problems”. They may have received therapy to address prior personal traumatic or adverse experiences. More often however, first responders are introduced to counseling out of a necessity related to interpersonal conflicts that can include relationships issues, recognized substance abuse problems, anger management, and other work or legal problems. First responders may believe that treatments will be “touchy feely” or focused on medications. They may have concerns with the cost or confidentiality of therapy-and may struggle to find time in their already demanding schedules. Due to these and other factors, it is imperative that clinicians utilize evidence-based therapies when working with first responders.

What works with first responders is somewhat different than the general population. This training will cover the basics of evidence-based clinical approaches for working with first responders.

About Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP:

Michelle is the Lead Clinician for the 2nd Alarm Project. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Master’s Level Certified Addiction Professional (MCAP). Michelle is one of just a few endorsed Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) providers in the state. She has focused her clinical efforts on treating responders struggling with compound issues, including PTSD, trauma, anxiety, substance use, and other mood disturbances. She has significant experience providing clinical oversight to peer support teams, delivers mental health awareness in service and peer support trainings, and has served on many critical incident/clinician response team deployments. Michelle is passionate about serving our first responders and provides high-quality, evidence-based trauma treatment to our community members in need.

About Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD:

Dr. Kellie O’Dare is a faculty member at Florida A & M University and the Founder/Director of the 2nd Alarm Project. Dr. O’Dare has actively worked with Florida based first responder agencies to conduct needs assessments, provide capacity building for peer support teams, and develop BHAP programs. She has conducted mental health training with over 1,000 first responders, family members, and leadership teams and functioned as a behavioral health navigator and clinical advisor to peer support teams. She has also served on local and statewide critical incident activations and deployments, including being embedded with Florida Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Force 7 at Surfside, FL in July 2021. While deployed to Surfside, Dr O’Dare and colleagues developed the first statewide plan for first responder mental health services post disaster deployment. She has earned well in excess of 100 hours of continuing education in first responder behavioral health and substance use. She currently has several peer reviewed manuscripts on developing comprehensive resiliency and BHAP programs. She frequently provides consultation and technical assistance to first responder organizations across the country on best practices in building mental wellness programs. Dr. O’Dare also serves as a subject matter expert and non-voting member of the Florida First Responder Suicide Deterrence Task Force.

Dr. O’Dare is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management with the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Florida State University, where she also earned both Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master in Public Administration (MPA) degrees. She is an active researcher with over 50 publications, technical reports, and conference presentations, and has significant experience conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating large scale quantitative, geospatial, and mixed method research projects in both academic and applied settings.

Dr. O’Dare has meaningful personal linkages to the first responder culture. She is the niece of Shawn T. O’Dare, firefighter/paramedic killed in the Line of Duty in Miami-Dade County, and the spouse of a current professional Florida panhandle firefighter/paramedic.

LSF is proud to partner with the 2nd Alarm Project to provide trainings for the First Responder Community. This training is offered by Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP, and Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD.

We hope you will join us! We ask participants to have cameras on. This is an interactive training; please come prepared to participate!

A Zoom link will be sent 48 hours prior to the training. Please e-mail Robert Hersey at robert.hersey@lsfnet.org with any questions.

About "Creating a First Responder Community Treatment Network":

Behavioral Health Access Programs, or BHAPs for short, include the development of behavioral health clinical services for first responders, retirees, and their families. Most departments have employee assistance programs, which is part of the BHAP. However, many departments have found the need to improve or expand on employee assistance program services provided by to their members. This module will discuss the development of these outpatient behavioral health resources and networks in partnership with trusted clinicians that are trained to work specifically with first responders and their family members.

About Michelle Rehbein, LMHC, MCAP:

Michelle is the Lead Clinician for the 2nd Alarm Project. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) and Master’s Level Certified Addiction Professional (MCAP). Michelle is one of just a few endorsed Cognitive Processing Therapy (CPT) providers in the state. She has focused her clinical efforts on treating responders struggling with compound issues, including PTSD, trauma, anxiety, substance use, and other mood disturbances. She has significant experience providing clinical oversight to peer support teams, delivers mental health awareness in service and peer support trainings, and has served on many critical incident/clinician response team deployments. Michelle is passionate about serving our first responders and provides high-quality, evidence-based trauma treatment to our community members in need.

About Dr. Kellie O'Dare, PhD:

Dr. Kellie O’Dare is a faculty member at Florida A & M University and the Founder/Director of the 2nd Alarm Project. Dr. O’Dare has actively worked with Florida based first responder agencies to conduct needs assessments, provide capacity building for peer support teams, and develop BHAP programs. She has conducted mental health training with over 1,000 first responders, family members, and leadership teams and functioned as a behavioral health navigator and clinical advisor to peer support teams. She has also served on local and statewide critical incident activations and deployments, including being embedded with Florida Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Force 7 at Surfside, FL in July 2021. While deployed to Surfside, Dr O’Dare and colleagues developed the first statewide plan for first responder mental health services post disaster deployment. She has earned well in excess of 100 hours of continuing education in first responder behavioral health and substance use. She currently has several peer reviewed manuscripts on developing comprehensive resiliency and BHAP programs. She frequently provides consultation and technical assistance to first responder organizations across the country on best practices in building mental wellness programs. Dr. O’Dare also serves as a subject matter expert and non-voting member of the Florida First Responder Suicide Deterrence Task Force.

Dr. O’Dare is an Assistant Professor of Health Policy and Management with the Institute of Public Health at Florida A&M University. She holds a Ph.D. in Social Work from Florida State University, where she also earned both Master of Social Work (MSW) and Master in Public Administration (MPA) degrees. She is an active researcher with over 50 publications, technical reports, and conference presentations, and has significant experience conceptualizing, designing, implementing, and evaluating large scale quantitative, geospatial, and mixed method research projects in both academic and applied settings.

Dr. O’Dare has meaningful personal linkages to the first responder culture. She is the niece of Shawn T. O’Dare, firefighter/paramedic killed in the Line of Duty in Miami-Dade County, and the spouse of a current professional Florida panhandle firefighter/paramedic.