Service to Self Training

This course is free, online, and self-paced. Course participants will receive a certificate upon completion.

This course includes relatable firsthand video accounts from volunteer and career firefighters and emergency medical technicians.

This course is designed to help firefighters and EMS personnel do the following:

• Be aware of risk factors for and prevalence of mental health and substance use issues in their professional communities.
• Recognize the warning signs of mental health and substance use issues in yourself and your peers.
• Discuss mental health and substance use-related issues with colleagues to help reduce stigma.
• Identify and use stress management and healthy coping strategies.
• Be aware of and share evidence-based practices and resources for increasing capacity to cope with occupational stressors.

You must complete the training course in one session. The course cannot be restarted.

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If you would like to embed this course into your agency’s learning management system (LMS), we can provide you with the course materials. This option would allow your team to have direct access to the course and your team’s course completions. 

If you are interested in embedding the course into your agency’s LMS, please contact SAMHSA DTAC at dtac@samhsa.hhs.gov or 800–308–3515 to receive the course Sharable Content Object Reference Model (SCORM) package.