How do EMTs deal with suicidal adolescents?

Get them young, hook them and keep them
 
CCCSD said:
So the kids drive the rigs?
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Yes. As I recall from a news story the ambulance is parked at school for the students to respond from during the day.
 
CCCSD said:
Why? You can’t work as an EMT. Finish HS first, that’s a bit more important than trying to be a hero to your friends.
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I went to career center during high school and graduated with my fire and emt card, got my first FD paycheck (part time) the summer after I graduated..

Now, in terms of age and years in the pension system, I’d say I’m 3-5 years ahead of most everyone else on my department.
 
FiremanMike said:
I went to career center during high school and graduated with my fire and emt card, got my first FD paycheck (part time) the summer after I graduated..

Now, in terms of age and years in the pension system, I’d say I’m 3-5 years ahead of most everyone else on my department.
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That’s AFTER HS.
 
Quick derailment.

It’s a well known—and all to exhausting— fact that there seems to be no shortage of adolescent-minded “adults” that struggle with adulting well into their 70’s.

OP, don’t be that person.

Back on topic, I think @NomadicMedic replied to the OP with the most honest and straightforward answer.
 
As someone that started in my teenaged years, I can say that if early awareness training on critical incident/traumatic stress management isn't taken very seriously with these kind of programs, they'll have a lot of alcoholics in their mid 20's in their services. No one told us that was a thing in 1982 and most of us paid for it.
 
There is a town in Alaska doing the same thing: they can graduate as FF I & II, and EMT-B at 16 years old. They run everything in town.
I don't know if it is the same state wide, or just there.
 
FiremanMike said:
True, just pointing out that I was in fire school and emt school during the last two years of high school.
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Sooo, you went to Tri-School?…

Sure beats the hell out of my “walked three miles up hill in the snow on cold SoCal winter mornings to get to school” stories I’ve been feeding our kids.
 
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VentMonkey said:
Quick derailment.

It’s a well known—and all to exhausting— fact that there seems to be no shortage of adolescent-minded “adults” that struggle with adulting well into their 70’s.

OP, don’t be that person.

Back on topic, I think @NomadicMedic replied to the OP with the most honest and straightforward answer.
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I’m not, I’ve just seen a bunch of overdose cases in my city, with the majority being troubled teens
 
VentMonkey said:
Sooo, you went to Tri-School?…

Sure beats the hell out of my “walked three miles up hill in the snow on cold SoCal winter mornings to get to school” stories I’ve been feeding our kids.
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What is tri school? My junior and senior year I went half day to my regular high school and half day to career center or tech school or whatever it’s called elsewhere in the country.
 
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