Jeff Dill - Fire Captain (Ret.), Founder of FBHA

Jeff Dill is a retired Fire Captain , the founder of Firefighter Behavioral Health Alliance (FBHA), and the behavioral health administrator for Las Vegas Fire and Rescue. At FBHA they hold workshops to educate firefighters, EMS personnel, and dispatchers on behavioral health, moral injury, and suicide prevention. They also track data on firefighter, EMS, and dispatcher suicide, host retreats for suicide loss survivors, and so much more. In this episode Jeff shares with us that suicide remains the greatest threat to the lives of first responders, some of the reasons why, and what steps can be taken by organizations to combat that unfortunate reality. If you listen to this episode, you will hear Jeff talking about how to change the culture to improve first responder behavioral health, he talks about regularly working with departments and EAP's to help them implement effective programs to do just that.