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Brothers and Sisters,
This week, Local 1014 joined the Department, the City of Los Angeles, ABC7 and Kidde to launch Operation Save-A-Life.
Kidde is donating 3,000 smoke alarms and 1,000 carbon-monoxide detectors to local fire departments for distribution and installation in under-resourced communities. In addition to providing fire safety educational resources and products to vulnerable communities and those living in low-income housing.
Thank you to Kidde and ABC7 for your advocacy. This is just another way that our members ensure that our communities are protected when the worst happens. |
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California Professional Firefighters Behavioral Health Task Force
This month, the Califonia Fire Service Task Force on Behavioral Health, a joint labor-management initiative, convened a meeting to discuss its ongoing work to make emotional wellness a health and safety priority in the fire service.
Local 1014 President Gillotte serves as chair of the Task Force. Items discussed at the meeting included resiliency and proactive practices from drill tower to retirement that will assist our Firefighters in coping with the difficult nature of our jobs and provide the mental and physical fitness to have a long healthy career serving our communities.
The Task Force reviewed firefighter behavioral health curriculum that we drafted with 8 hours of behavioral health, wellness and fitness for fire and EMS as part of every entry level program for rank and file and officers. Subcommittees were established to work on conflict resolution and anger management with mediation standards, courting and maintaining culturally competent clinicians who understand firefighters and can treat our members, legislative advocacy for existing bills and new work to help assure coverage and treatment under workers compensation and as a mandate for providers, and data collection statewide and work to use the data to ensure support from elected officials on our needs. Finally, we work to continue the state wide peer support program with shared resources for all to use and help each other
We will see more items coming out of the task force as we continue to meet and ensure the California is the leader in Behavioiral Health in the Fire Service . |
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SECOND TRIAL STAFFING SURVEY EMAILED YESTERDAY
By now, you all should have received the second Local 1014 Trial Staffing Survey. We have already had over 800 members engage in the survey!
There is nothing more important than the input of our members. The staffing committee, comprised of labor and management, will review the input and evaluate what is working and what is not to make adjustments.
Captains, encourage your members to take the survey in your morning lineup. Please check your spam and junk folders diligently, and be sure to complete the survey. If anyone in your stations has yet to sign up for the Friday Updates on the website, encourage them to do so and take the survey.
Feel free to call any Local 1014 Director or the staffing committee members if you have any questions about the survey. Thank you to all our members during this trial period for your patience and your input to improve our system so it works for everyone.
If you have checked your spam folder and still have not received the email, please email ssaporito@local1014.org.
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REMINDER: We are calling on local artists and those in our fire family to submit proposals for a permanent art installation to be installed at Station 81. This art installation is meant to not only provide a remembrance site for our Brother Tory Carlon, but also provide a place of healing for those most impacted by this incident and a reminder of the importance of our Fire Family and behavioral health in the fire service.
The art project will be installed at LACoFD Station 81 in Agua Dulce. The project must provide 1) a memorial and remembrance for Brother Tory Carlon, 2) emphasize the importance of our Fire Family and 3) provide a reflective space that emphasizes the importance of behavioral health in the fire service.
While we will be accepting submissions from the local community, we will give preference to members of our Fire Family who submit projects.
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In Solidarity,
President Dave Gillotte and the Local 1014 Executive Board |
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