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IAFF Recovery Center

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A Rehab Center Designed Specifically for IAFF Members We want you to feel at home at the IAFF Center for Excellence. That’s why we designed it with the firehouse in mind, to make treatment as comfortable as possible. You’ll find familiar touches throughout the common areas and residences.

Our 15-acre facility, located just outside Washington, DC, in Upper Marlboro, Maryland is furnished with comfortable residential accommodations and more than 60 beds. It offers a wide range of indoor and outdoor amenities to encourage physical activity and mental clarity to heal the mind, body and spirit.

 

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Health Training for Correctional Officers

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Correctional officers are a vital part of the process for delivering health care to incarcerated individuals. Not only do they facilitate the work flow, they also represent many eyes and ears throughout the facility to alert health staff to individuals with possible health issues. Because correctional personnel are often the first to respond to problems, they must be aware of the potential for emergencies that may arise, know the proper response to life-threatening situations, and understand their part in the early detection of illness and injury.
 
Standard C-04 focuses on a health training program for correctional officers. The intent of the standard is to promote the training of correctional officers to recognize when the need to refer someone to a qualified health care professional occurs and to provide emergency care until they arrive.
 
Training can be accomplished in a variety of ways, including classroom training, roll-call in-services, electronically or any combination of these methods. Health staff may have a role in the training or it could be conducted entirely by correctional staff who are qualified to instruct on such topics. Regardless of the method for training or who is responsible, the standard requires that correctional officers who work with the incarcerated receive health-related training at least every two years. The training program must be established or approved by the responsible health authority in cooperation with the facility administrator.

 

PHQ-9 (Patient Health Questionnaire-9)

This quiz is to help you visualize your current state of mind, and give you an idea of how others in similar situations have been feeling. At the end of the quiz, you’ll be given a score that [DOES SOMETHING APPROVED BY LEGAL]

Stress and Trauma with Dr. Arash

Traumatic events can lead to many emotions, including feeling helpless, sad and angry. Some of us feel we shouldn’t have these emotions in our work. These are normal responses. Suppressing these emotions over extended periods will have a negative effect on us.
Teaching we get from this is:
Be supportive, don’t take it personally, when people ask for space give them space, use reflective listening and open ended questions
When you lose sight of judgment and make it about me and you – it can create anger