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It’s been an incredible privilege shadows to ask for help without worrying to be part of this magnificent, effective and powerful union. We are about what their crew will think or that second to none. their chief will think they aren’t fit for As we begin our 101st year, we can look back and take pride in all that duty. we’ve built over the last century, the successes we’ve achieved and the We are providing a safe environment for political might we carry. And now we must look forward at the next 100 our members with our own recovery years, where we are going, what we need to do and how we can do it center — the IAFF Center of Excellence better. for Behavioral Health Treatment and At our 100th anniversary celebration, delegates at the 2018 Recovery — where members struggling Convention made tough decisions to resource this union, passing more with post-traumatic stress or other mental per capita than ever in the history of this IAFF because they understand health issues get the best medical and it’s an investment we need to make to get results. They made sure we left clinical care from professionals who Harold A. Schaitberger Seattle better prepared and better equipped with a new set of policies understand the unique culture of the fire and priorities to keep us thinking out of the box about the issues that we service. We are healing our members and face today. sending them back home on a path to I say it a lot — nothing is more important than the health and safety better health. of our members. It’s what our union was predicated on 100 years ago This is just some of the critical work we’re doing every day to help and the top priority in the proceedings of the very first convention. keep our members safe and healthy. Delegates assembled in Washington, DC, in 1918 determined it should All the programs we have created and the services and resources we be the sole responsibility and goal of the newly established IAFF. And provide — along with our education and training opportunities, as well that’s what we’ve been doing each and every year along the way to keep as legal, technical, communications and strategic assistance — are how our members safe, make sure they stay healthy and, in the case they we get things done for our members. become ill or disabled, ensure they are provided for — and their Equally important is our political and legislative work. We know that families are taken care of — with the benefits and the protections we have a very politically diverse membership — Republicans, they’ve earned.