Show Notes:

• First Responders & Front Line Workers face unique challenges including persistent stress and systems that tend to focus on reactive supports rather than proactive ones.
• Reactive support can be helpful, but fails to account for the compound effects of life on the front lines.
• Proactive support focuses on prevention and early intervention tools to and helps to keep our metaphorical "mess" under control.
• Critical incidents do not exist in a vacuum. Critical incidents are a hard part of the work you do, but they are not the defining features of what is difficult in your work - it is way more complicated than that, and the wellness supports you implement need to meet that degree of complexity. 
• Reaction is never as strong as prevention - so focus your efforts and energy on prevention. Remember the adage, "an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
• Prevention and being proactive involves a strategic action plan that is personal to you, where you're at, and your context.

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