One Badge, One Brain, One Life

Date and Location:

Mar 28, 8:00 AM EDT – Mar 29, 5:00 PM EDT

Branford Fire Headquarters, 45 N Main St, Branford, CT 06405, USA

Daily Schedule:

• Sign in 8:00-8:30 am
• Lecture:8:30 am – noon
• Lunch Break*
• Lecture: 1:00pm -  5:00 pm daily

* Lunch is on your own, but snacks and beverages will be provided.

Registration Fees:

$265 until 3/15/2023

$295 after 3/15/2023

*Have a group of 10 or more? Email tapiaemdrtraining@gmail.com for a Group Discount!

Workshop Description:

Emergency Responders train for health and wellness including physical fitness and nutrition, but often do not discuss the impact of line of duty exposure on the brain. This workshop will focus on what happens to your brain in the line of duty. This isn’t just about concussions, but the exposure that causes your brain to go hot and not shut off. You can do something to prevent it! You need to clear your calls!

The purpose of this training is to teach you strategies to get healthy and stay healthy in the line of duty. For the purpose of this program, Emergency Responders will refer to Law Enforcement Professionals, Firefighters, Search and Rescue Professionals, Emergency Medical Professionals both in the field and in the Emergency Rooms, Dispatchers (911 Operators – or the people who take the calls for emergency services), Medical Examiner’s Office Professionals, the Military and Veterans, and anyone who is exposed to the unimaginable in the line of duty. Those who respond to horrific accidents and acts of “man’s inhumanity to man” along with natural and manmade disasters are Heroes. These Heroes put their health and lives on the line to help, protect and save the lives of others on a regular basis. This workshop is to take better care of you! There is also a glossary at the end for your review. 

Ultimately the mission of this training is to prevent PTSD and suicides by training Emergency Responders to care for their brains.

Workshop Objectives:

Participants will learn

• How line of duty exposure effects your brain and impacts line of duty success.
• How brain injuries are the root of symptoms including sleep issues, flashbacks, hypervigilance, substance use
• issues, marital and parenting issues, and many more.
• How to deal with the big 5 line of duty exposures include crimes against children and child death, suicides, harm
• to self and colleagues, shootings, and manmade and natural disasters.
• This workshop will also address the impact of betrayal trauma from institutional and administrative betrayal along
• with the lack of community support.
• Self-care including preventative maintenance skills to keep your brain healthy in the line of duty while developing
• resilience, hardiness, and GRIT.
• How to be a healthy spouse and parent as an Emergency Responder.
• How progressive leaders can improve health and wellness, and decision making for their employees.
• How identify organizational and personal strategies for increasing protective factors and preventing chronic stress
• and traumas in work and home.
• How to improve coping skills and practice daily brain fitness.
• EMDR therapy and how mental health services are about health and fitness.
• The training is based on the book “One Badge – One Brain – One Life”