Designed for
Healthcare Providers

Inter-Provincial Occupational Awareness Training©

This course is designed to introduce you to provincial first responder culture and trauma as well as the challenge these individuals face in balancing paramilitary work culture with personal life.

It will increase learner competencies in how to provide accessible, culturally competent mental healthcare support for first responders and their loved ones in your community.

Upon completion, healthcare providers will be invited to join our National Directory of Occupational Aware Clinicians.

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Important Information

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  • Time to Complete

    It should take you 8 hours to complete this course and you have 28 days to complete it.


    After 28 days it will no longer be available unless you re-purchase it.

  • Education Credits

    By completing this course, you will receive 10 hours of continuing education credits.


    Certification will be provided upon successful completion of the course within 28 days.

  • Class Workbook

    This course consists of 10 lessons, each consists of a video and class workbook.


    We recommend downloading the workbook for notes and future reference.

Course curriculum

    1. How to successfully complete this course:

    2. Course Information

    3. Course Walkthrough

    1. Intellectual Property

    2. Learning Objectives

    1. Instructor for this course: Matt Johnston

    2. Instructor for this course: Dr. Megan McElheran

    1. Class Workbook

    2. Complete Class Workbook (Optional to Download)

    1. Understanding Current Landscape

    1. Introducing the Network of Occupationally Aware Healthcare Providers

About this course

  • $150.00
  • 27 lessons
  • 3 hours of video content

Instructor(s)

Matt Johnston

Course Designer

Matt Johnston is the co-founder of First Responder Health, an organization dedicated to enhancing the behavioural health and well-being of first responders through online counselling, training for healthcare professionals and organizational support services.


A registered mental health professional and full-time firefighter, Matt has mastered the art of closing the gap between service providers and first responders. Matt’s skill set is grounded by twenty years of study in the field of psychology and over ten years in clinical practice. His unique approach to conceptualizing trauma is an introspective blend of academic training, clinical practice and direct experience of attending over 2,500 emergency calls as a firefighter in Metro Vancouver. Through his proactive, strengths-based approach, Matt’s ultimate goal is to alleviate the mental health crisis gripping public safety personnel across North America.

Dr. Megan McElheran

Registered Psychologist

Dr. McElheran is a Clinical Psychologist and the Chief Executive Officer of Wayfound Mental Health Group (formerly WGM Psychology), practicing in Calgary, AB. Her work over the last 16 years has been exclusively in the assessment, diagnosis and treatment of Operational Stress Injuries (OSI) in active-duty military, Veterans, and public safety personnel (e.g., police, firefighters, paramedics, corrections, etc.).


She is particularly interested in the prevention of OSI’s and how to enhance resiliency factors in public safety personnel. She has developed the Before Operational Stress (BOS) program which is a group-based resiliency program for PSP.


Dr. McElheran has a developing interest in the use of psychedelic medicine to treat psychological injuries. She is regularly called on to participate in civic and national speaking and teaching events. She has most recently published an article in the European Journal of Psychotraumatology called “Functional Disconnection and Reconnection: An Alternative Strategy to Stoicism in Public Safety Personnel”.