Surviving the Job

Harwich Cultural Center
Surviving The Job
Event Date: 
Wednesday, December 4, 2019 - 9:00am to 12:30pm

Address

Harwich Cultural Center
204 Sisson Road
Harwich, MA 02645
United States

Surviving the Job

Program Time:

  • 9:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m. (light lunch included)

Captain Gillespie will share his story of how he has gone beyond his PTSD diagnosis to PTG (Post Traumatic Growth) with the help of therapy, medication, and becoming a peer counselor. Steve Gillespie’s career as a first responder, police officer, and a firefighter began in 1983 with his first fatal motor vehicle accident as a seventeen-year-old volunteer firefighter. His paid career as a New York City firefighter began in 1994 before he retired after twenty-one years on the job. He served his entire FDNY career in The Bronx, one of the busiest boroughs of the FDNY which has a history and a reputation of its’ own and spending twenty-one years there exposed him to much tragedy including responding to the World Trade Center tragedy on September 11, 2001, the “Black Sunday” fire, the Deutsch Bank fire, and many others involving the multiple injuries and loss of firefighters and civilians alike.

Steve is a respected instructor with experience teaching at the FDNY Probationary Firefighter School, the FDNY Technical Rescue School, and presenting at national conferences such as the Firehouse Expo and the Fire Department Instructor’s Conference, both as a lecturer and a H.O.T. instructor. He is presently a peer team member with the Lowcountry Firefighter Support Team, Inc. and has become a Training Officer with the North Charleston Fire Department since retiring from the FDNY in 2015. This is not a scientific study or research but Steve’s story and how he has “Survived the Job."

Target Audience:

  • Fire Service
  • Law Enforcement
  • EMS Personnel - All Ranks
  • CISM Team Members

Priority Selection:

  • Yes - Barnstable, Dukes, and Nantucket County Personnel

EMS Credit:

  • Pending

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