Public safety personnel family and community supports
Session details
Date:
Time:
12:00pm - 1:30pm (Toronto time)
Location:
Zoom videoconferencing
Didactic presentation by:
Tim Black
Session objectives
At the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Identify the impacts public safety personnel (PSP) service has on PSP family members.
- Differentiate between the needs of support services for PSP members and that of PSP families.
- Identify resources that are available for PSP and their families.
Session resources
About presenter
Before joining Wounded Warriors Canada (WWC) as their National Clinical Director in January 2024, Dr. Black spent more than 20 years as a pre-tenure, then tenured Associate Professor at the University of Victoria, teaching and conducting research in the graduate counselling psychology program. Black has spent his clinical and academic career working with veterans, public safety personnel, first responders and other Trauma Exposed Professionals (TExP), co-founding and developing multiple national programs in Canada for PSP and their families. Now, as National Clinical Director, Black works with and supports teams of highly skilled, dedicated, and compassionate clinicians facilitating WWC programs across Canada.
Case presentations
Most of the learning in ECHO happens through presenting and discussing case presentations. If you have a case you would like to present, please submit a completed case presentation form to the ECHO PSP project coordinator.
Physicians presenting a case may bill OHIP for case conferences (billing code K701).