In our season 6 premiere episode, we speak with Dr. Kelly Dean Schwartz, a registered psychologist and associate professor in the Werklund School of Education, about the Family First Responder project. This research project has led to the development of a social innovation to provide mental health supports for first responder families.  This episode, we will learn more about his research with the Social Development Research Team, discuss what led to the start of the Family First Responder project and the development of the Re: Building Families program. We also discuss the potential impacts of the program, and the scalability of this social innovation. We also hear briefly from one of Kelly’s collaborators, Scott Cowan, battalion chief for the Calgary Fire Department, who speaks to the value of this mental health programming for first responder families.   A big thank you to Carol Henke and Scott Cowan at the Calgary Fire Department for allowing the Now Innovating team to visit and record this episode at Station 16.  This episode is also available as a fully captioned and transcribed video that you can watch here: https://youtu.be/sOLWYvEG0KU  Learn more about:  The Family First Responder project and Re: Building Families program: https://familyfirstresponder.ca/ The Before Operational Stress (BOS) program: https://www.beforeoperationalstress.ca/   The Social Development Research Team in the Werklund School of Education: https://werklund.ucalgary.ca/research/social-development-research-team/social-development-research-team Learn how to move your research-to-impact in the UCalgary innovation ecosystem: https://ucalgary.ca/innovation

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