Boston EMS Peer Support

Attorney Michelle Reed on the benefits of preplanning. Times of uncertainty highlight opportunities that we may have otherwise not thought about. 

Updates from Superintendent Joe O'Hare

Child and adolescent psychology- having age appropriate conversations with the children of first responders and essential personnel. Acknowledging different family dramatics and normalizing the abnormal

Disaster psychology- understanding the stages of a multi day incident and how it applies to a pandemic response. 

Boston EMT Chrissy Snyder offered to use her background in yoga wellness and healthy living to guide our membership through a difficult time. 

Being in the now, living for today and not fearing tomorrow with Dr. Hayden Duggan.  Hayden discusses how his own recovery has prepared him to live for today and how it applies to disasters

Sitting down with BPPA- EMS division President Mike MacNeil and discussing our current stance, morale, legislation and innovations while we face this ongoing public health crisis. 

Deputy Pow provides updates on dispatch operations, morale and innovations in response to the covid 19 pandemic 

Talking with Deirdre Scarna on what it's like being a spouse of a family member during this pandemic

resiliency and prolonged incidents discussed in a relaxed format- how we immunize ourselves for the prolonged incident we are facing

Welcome to the new Boston EMS peer support website, our goal is to establish and continue an open dialogue with the membership while we all weather this pandemic. As a peer support unit that relies on interacting with the membership we realize that we need to adjust how we do business for the duration of this pandemic. We are utilizing platforms like this as well as telehealth for our weekly clinical appointments. We hope that this website offers your insight and answers some questions you or your family have.