Vancouver Island University is offering volunteer firefighters the training needed to better cope with the stress that comes with their job.
Dr. Leigh Blaney is a professor in the Faculty of Health and Human Services at V-I-U.
She says volunteer firefighters train to save lives and extinguish fires but receive little training about how to protect their emotional safety.
Firefighters have a higher exposure to horrific events than the average person.
Blaney has co-created a resilience education program aimed at helping them cultivate personal resilience before they are involved in a traumatic incident.
