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Mind Blue Light Programme

Why SAR?

In any given year one in four people will experience a mental health problem. But research has revealed that the estimated quarter of a million emergency staff and volunteers are at an even greater risk of developing mental health problems because of the nature of your roles. 

“You go to nasty jobs and you try to leave it behind. But you’ve got your own stresses on top of that…it makes the job extremely hard, and sometimes too hard to do.”

For search & rescue volunteers especially, balancing volunteering commitments with work and personal life can have an impact on your mental health. Whilst many in search & rescue report great support from their teams, volunteers may also experience a gap in support for mental health problems if their issues do not relate to, or they do not have support within paid employment.

 

World Mental Health Day – the Blue Light Programme Blueprint Pack

As part of World Mental Health Day, the national mental health charity Mind have launched their Blueprint Pack. This is a free step-by-step guide for 999 services on delivering mental health activity for staff and volunteers that will last well into the future. All the key documents are available in the documents section of sharepoint.

The Team is working with Cleveland Police as part of an initiative to involve all local emergency services, professional and voluntary. We will be running a session at the next Team forum to start working towards signing the Blue Light Time to Change Pledge, a public statement showing what we will do as a team to protect the mental wellbeing of team members.

Any team member can get involved with this by becoming a Blue Light Champion. These are normal service members from across the emergency services who sign up to champion mental health as part of their work. Full training is available!

To find out more about the Cleveland Mountain Recsue Blue Light Programme and get registered as a Blue Light Champion please click here.

Either visit the Mind Blue Light website or speak to the current team mental health lead, Mike Lincoln.

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Applications can be made to join the team in a support role (Operational Support) or as a hill going (Search and Rescue) member.

Applications for either role can be made at any time. Intakes for Operational Support members occur at various times of the year. There is one annual intake for Search and Rescue normally each September.

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