Rabbi Cary Friedman, Associate Director of the Law Enforcement Survival Institute and consultant to the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit, discusses the role of spirituality in first response, including how to refill your depleted reservoirs.
Tim Russow, Quality Assurance Specialist with Ada County Sheriff’s Office, discusses quality assurance and feedback in emergency dispatch, including why it’s important and how to improve it.
Andrew Palmer, manager of instructional design at IAED, discusses emergency dispatch training, including where to start improving your own programs and what kind of training works best for this field.
Julie Buckingham, Telecommunicator Program Director at RQI Partners, discusses telecommunicator CPR, including new research about learning and comprehension, the importance of contextual training in the dispatch center, and how call simulations can improve skills.
Mike Thompson, a Fire Protocol, Academics and Standards Expert with the IAED’s Academics, Research, and Standards Division, discusses protocol accommodations for callers with disabilities, specifically for fire calls. He explains what accommodations exist and the events that prompted them.
Mads Matthews-Williams (they/them), former emergency dispatcher, mentor, and quality auditor for the Welsh Ambulance Service, discusses how to handle LGBTQ issues in emergency dispatch, especially for transgender and nonbinary callers.
Kerri Hatt, editor-in-chief of EMS 1, and Anthony Minge, Senior Partner with Fitch & Associates, discuss the 2021 EMS Trend Report, including what insights and markers have changed since the 2020 report and which ones haven't.
Melissa Alterio, Director of Emergency Communications at Cobb County 911, discusses her paper “Peer Support Programs – Mitigating the Emotional Effects of Vicarious Trauma Experienced by 911 Dispatchers.” She talks about the methods for writing it and the takeaways for emergency dispatchers.
Cait Welch, Quality Assurance Officer and Coordinator at Manatee County Sheriff’s Office in Florida, discusses how to cope with working in an understaffed center, including ways to approach recruiting, retention, and positivity.
Kim Ridgen, Associate Director of Accreditation for the IAED, discusses barriers and drivers of success dispatch agencies face when they are trying to become accredited centers of excellence (ACEs), including agency culture, timeline for the achievement, and protocol compliance.
