The 365 Campaign is a year long commitment made by Sandii Greaves and David Kapay to move our bodies 3.65km every day to raise awareness of the mental health risk our emergency service workers face in the course of their daily role and commitment to protect and serve the community.  David and I have committed to moving our bodies through walking, running, bike riding, for 3.65km every day for 365 days with the aim to raise awareness of the mental health battles our emergency services face in the course of their work.

We have chosen to support the Emergency Services Foundation.  ESF is the only organisation that is entirely dedicated to the prevention of mental health injury for Victoria’s emergency workers.

Funds raised from the 365 Campaign will be used by ESF to support programs such as:

• An ambitious research program that seeks through evidence to identify appropriate initiatives and strategies that could be developed by ESF to assist in reducing the likelihood that those in the early stages of their mental health journey will progress to suffer a significant mental injury.
• A lived experience program which will see ESF train mental health ambassadors from across the sector to safely share their stories of mental health injury and recovery. This will help to reduce the mental health stigma which pervades the sector and inhibits early help seeking when the chance of recovery is greatest.
• A pilot residential wellbeing program to bring together emergency workers who are mentally struggling to help them process trauma and develop resilience skills supported by experts who completely understand their experiences. This will help them effectively self-manage to reduce the cumulative effect of trauma and the risk developing serious mental health injury.

Emergency work can be traumatic. That’s why ESF must be at the frontline of workplace mental health making sure we have the best possible strategies to help prevent people from our sector being harmed by the tough work they must do. ESF works collaboratively with agencies with a focus on prevention as it seeks to get ahead of the mental harm and injury threat that currently pervades the sector – so everyone benefits.