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Amanda Brazil is the Director of Programs and Policy with the Canadian Mental Health Association – PEI Division and has recently completed her PhD in Educational Studies at the University of Prince Edward Island. Her PhD research was on critical incidents in the volunteer fire service. Amanda has extensive experience working and researching in the areas of corrections, addictions, and mental health and has been a volunteer firefighter with Cross Roads Fire Department for almost 8 years. She is a member of the PEI Critical Incident Stress Management Steering Committee and is also a researcher with Firewell, a national team of firefighters and researchers interested in firefighter health who are working together to improve firefighters’ health and safety through research.