ENROUTE: The Podcast of The First Responder Behavioral Health Institute

Welcome to this episode of ENROUTE.  I’m Joseph Brigandi.  

Today we have Mark Bouchard visiting with us.  Mark is a current member of the RCMP The Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  

He is a member of their ERT Emergency Response Team which is the Canadian equivalent of a SWAT team. 

He also holds the special designation and achievement of MEDIC on the team.  

He is assigned to the Williams Lake detachment in British Columbia a suburb of Vancouver. 

Mark completed a master’s degree in leadership from Royal Rhodes University.  

He’s the author of Setting My Sights on Stigma – Thoughts from an Injured Mind.   

A book which details his road to recovery and the many challenges he’s faced along the path towards recovery and achieving wellness after receiving a PTSD diagnosis in 2015.  

He’s a peer support member and a Road to Mental Readiness Instructor for his agency.  

Mark offers a two-part course titled POLICE CULTURE AND LETHAL FORCE DECISIONS on our platform The First Responder Behavioral Health Institute.   

I’m my pleasure to welcome Mark Bouchard to ENROUTE. 

Dr. Roger Solomon is a psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in the areas of trauma and grief. He is on the Senior Faculty of the EMDR Institute and provides basic and advanced EMDR training internationally. He currently consults with the US Senate, NASA, and several law enforcement agencies.

Dr. Solomon has provided clinical services and training to the FBI, Secret Service, U.S. State Department, Diplomatic Security, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, U.S. Department of Justice (U.S. Attorneys), and numerous state and local law enforcement organizations. 

Internationally, he consults with the Polizia di Stato in Italy. Moreover, Dr Solomon has planned critical incident programs, provided training for peer support teams and has provided direct services following such tragedies as:

Hurricane Katrina, 

September 11 terrorist attacks, 

the loss of the Shuttle Columbia, 

and the Oklahoma City Bombing.

Dr. Solomon has expertise in complex trauma, and collaborates with clinicians on utilization of EMDR as informed by clinical understandings on The Structural Dissociation of the Personality (TDSP). 

Roger has authored 42 articles and numerus book chapters pertaining to grief, trauma, complex trauma and dissociation.

Welcome to this edition of ENROUTE

I’m Joseph Brigandi, thank you for joining us. 

Today we have the opportunity to visit with a very unique firefighter paramedic. 

Over one million people would say he’s the funniest fire fighter on YouTube with the possible exception of fire fighter, Fenton, 

but most of you know him as the brilliant mind behind fire department Chronicles 

and the spokesperson for fire department coffee.

It’s my extreme pleasure to welcome the comedic genius and the gentle soul that is Jason Patton to Enroute

Today we have the pleasure of speaking with Daniel Sundahl, firefighter, paramedic, award winning artist and mental health advocate.

Welcome to this episode of ENROUTE the podcast of the First Responder Behavioral Health Institute.

We will have best-selling author Michael Sugrue the author of RELENTLESS COURAGE: Winning the Battle Against Frontline Trauma.

Michael is a medically retired police officer and an air force veteran who has served all over the world and returned home to serve his community as a police officer and detective. Suffering a critical incident on the job placed him in the unenviable position of seeking solutions to his trauma and ultimately documenting his road to recovery in his book RELENTLESS COURAGE. 

Michael’s mission is to help first responders overcome traumatic related incidents and normalize mental health within the first responder community. One of the ways he does this is by public speaking, seminars, workshops and by serving in a peer support role with The West Coast Trauma Retreat and as an ambassador for the Save a Warrior Program.