Challenge Activities Menu

Activity Value: 1 Point

The activities below, once completed and submitted, are 1 point each.

  • Healthy option snack replacements at drill/meeting

  • Healthy option meal replacements at drill/meeting

  • Department walk

  • View a health/wellness related webinar

  • Listen to a health/wellness-related podcast

  • Basketball

  • Football

  • Kickball

  • Dodgeball

  • Work out

  • Health-related topic discussions as a department (proof of resource site required)

  • Monthly blood pressure check

 

  • Push-up challenge

  • Monthly reading of Line of Duty Deaths

  • Hose pass

  • Replace soda and sugary beverages with water and healthy alternatives Replace department snacks with healthy option

  • Mindfulness (meditation, breathing exercise, stretching exercise)

  • Trail walk

  • Biking

  • Plank Challenge - See how long your members can hold the plank position! Create a firematic obstacle course full of physical activity!

  • Other: Have an activity in mind that is not listed? We invite you to be creative. Check in with Sullivan 180 to confirm the activity is eligible.

Activity Value: 2 Points

The activities below, once completed and submitted, are 2 points each.

  • QPR: Question Persuade Refer, Suicide Awareness Training for First Responders in department training

  • Narcan: in-department training

  • Become a non-smoking campus (Signage required and provided)

  • Cooking class

  • Weekly water challenge entry

  • Weekly weight loss challenge entry

  • Department zoom with a health resource

  • In-house health resource presentation

  • Yoga class

  • Litter pluck

  • Establishing or joining a league

  • Family-focused involved health activity

  • Sledding

  • Ice skating

  • Hiking

 

  • Youth vs. Adults’ basketball

  • Monthly health board (provide resources and helpful tips every month on a designated health bulletin board)

  • Community Run/Walk races (R4, Monster, Walk/Run for ALS…)

  • Fire Department Sleepover: Plan a fun night in at your fire department! Bring your family and your sleeping bags, have a cookout, watch movies, and design your own version of a campout or sleepover in your department!

  • Zumba class: Invite someone to come in a hold a Zumba Class

  • Count your Zzz’s Chart (End of month entry from five or more active members is worth 2 points. Points are not per person.)

  • Know Your Numbers Screening with Garnet Health: A Garnet Health professional comes to your department. With one small prick of your finger, you will receive vital readings on your cholesterol, triglycerides, glucose & blood pressure.

  • Other: Have an activity in mind that is not listed? We invite you to be creative. Check in with Sullivan 180 to confirm the activity is eligible.

Activity Value: 3 Points

The activities below, once completed and submitted, are 3 points each.

  • Health & Wellness classes/speakers held at the Sullivan County Training Center

  • Health & Wellness classes/speakers held at the Cablevision Center

  • Adopting and implementing a Wellness Policy

  • Fire Tower Hike

  • SnO&W in Hurleyville - February 24, 2024

  • International Overdose Awareness Day

Sullivan County Training Center Classes

The classes listed will count towards the challenge and are worth 3 points each. As with all activities, five or more of your active members must attend/participate. To submit an activity, follow the submission process and upload photo of your group at the training center. Register within your department per standard training facility class protocol.

January 17: Public Safety Wellness, Fitness & Rehabilitation Awareness

This course will assist agencies in realizing the benefits of a wellness, fitness, and an on-scene rehabilitation program. Through regulations, consensus standards and professional organization programs, attendees will be assisted in the development of a program to provide longevity to their members.

January 25: Creating a Psychologically Healthy Fire Department

Based on the framework from the Psychologically Healthy Fire Departments (PHFD) initiative, this course focuses on six key practices to facilitate member well-being and department functioning. It is designed to empower fire service leadership to promote and support health, high-performing fire/EMS departments.

Each training participant will receive the PHFD: Implementation Toolkit and the opportunity to make a commitment to create or maintain a psychologically health fire department.

April 2: Narcan Training

The Naloxone (NARCAN) training course will review how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and how to administer the opioid reversal drug Naloxone. Of the 62 counties in New York State, Sullivan County is leading in overdose fatality. You will learn what substances are prevalent in our area and what actions are being taken by our local and state leaders.

June 12: Getting Your ZZZs

Volunteer firefighters are constantly balancing work, home life and volunteerism all leading to sleep deprivation and the dangers that come along with it. Learn sleep strategies for the volunteer firefighter.

July 10: Where to Start for a Healthy Heart

With heart disease and heart attack being the leading cause of death in firefighters, learn tools and tips for a healthy heart.

Firefighter Contamination Reduction & Cancer Prevention

Occupational cancer due to firefighting is a silent killer. Firefighters face a 9% increase in cancer diagnoses and a 14% increase in cancer related deaths. Unlike many tragic events that take firefighters' lives, many firefighters are dying due to firefighting related cancers. Unfortunately, many of these deaths often go unnoticed. Learn how to take steps to help prevent these deaths from occurring. This initiative is a combination of awareness and education about the cancer threat with actions and policies that help to reduce the threat.

2024 Dates to Remember

January 17: Public Safety Wellness, Fitness & Rehabilitation Awareness at The Sullivan County Training Center, 7:00 pm

January 25: Creating a Psychologically Healthy Fire Department at The Sullivan County Training Center, 7:00 pm

February 24: The SnO&W in Hurleyville, 10:00 am

March 13: Narcan Training Course at The Sullivan County Training Center, 7:00 pm

June 1: National Trails Day

June 12: Getting Your Zzzs at The Sullivan County Training Center, 7:00 pm

July 10: Healthy Heart at The Sullivan County Training Center, 7:00 pm

August: International Overdose Awareness Day

September 7: Annual Sullivan County Volunteer Firefighters Parade at Livingston Manor

Challenge Captain Meetings

3rd Thursday of the Month at 7:00 pm: March 21, April 18, May 16, June 20, July 18, August 15, September 19

“This challenge is a vehicle for so many things. First and foremost, to incorporate resources into the departments, to build the relationship within the department family, to bring much-deserved attention and recognition to volunteerism for recruitment and retention, and to include their loved ones as so much time is spent selflessly away from home. Volunteers dedicate their lives to serving others, it is time we help them serve themselves.”

To schedule a class, please contact Lindsay Wheat, Outreach Program Manager.

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