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As calls from other first responder organizations filtered into the employee wellness team at the Brandon Police Service, it became abundantly clear to Const. Amanda Conway that more support for these groups was needed.
“I had the idea of making a multi-organizational team, a multi-agency team where just the representatives from the first responder organizations within the city and the local area, get together and discuss what they were doing, come up with ideas, do some promotion and share ideas,” Conway said.
Conway approached Cpl. Annalisa Dey-Thomas, who was the wellness officer for the RCMP in D Division at the time.
Together, they created Project Resilience 911. The organization was born out of the first responder organizations approaching Conway wanting to partake in what the employee wellness team was doing at Brandon Police Service…
