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Peer Support Team
The History of our PEER Team The Pearland PEER Support Team known as the PST was founded by members of this department in 2017 with the support of Fire Administration. A unified vote of operational field Staff determined who the suggested members of the Team should be. Year in Review Peer Support Chairman provided over 75 hours of coordinating peer support activities/trainings, coordinating responses to critical incidents, and providing suicide prevention and safety planning with members. The Peer Support Council spent 81 hours interviewing members, creating/editing policies and documents, and coordinating peer support activities/trainings. Peer Support Team provided 791 hours of peer support to members of the Pearland Fire Department. One support member was added. A total of 28 hours of peer support training was completed.
Highlights Wrote and awarded a VOCA grant for the fire department, the first VOCA grant awarded to a fire department in state history. Which will provide partial funding for the peer support program. Responded to over eight critical incidents and coordinated response after the October incident. Total Hours on initial response Frasier Fire (Oct 5-Oct 13): 297 hours from the peer support team. Follow up from Frasier Fire (Oct 13- Dec 31): 59 hours from peer support team. Everyone on the scene at the Frasier Rd Fire was contacted by peer support within one week of the event, most within 72 hours of the incident.
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