EMSPAC 2022 Campaign
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Every week members of the Emergency Medical Services (EMTs, Paramedics, and EMS officers) are assaulted. Every month EMS members die of illness, cumulative stress, and suicide. Over the course of the pandemic over 60 active and retired EMS members died directly or from side-effects of Covid-19. In fact, one study ranked EMS 14 times more dangerous than any comparable field, from injuries from assault, injuries while at work, and collective trauma.
Despite sharing many risks with other uniformed services, most EMS providers make 40% less than police, firefighters, nurses, or sanitation workers. Most in EMS, over 70%, leave the field in under 4 years citing low pay and working conditions. This leaves systems lacking experienced providers to teach the next generation and respond to emergencies and care for your loved ones. It seems that every week we turn to GoFundMe to ask for monetary support as another one of our colleagues has been struck down, sick with cancer, killed on the way to work, or who died by their own hand from what they have seen.
Throughout the pandemic and long before, the Emergency Medical Service has demonstrated vast resilience, empathy, and fearlessness in the pursuit of saving and prolonging human lives. For all of our history as a service, we have never known parity with police, fire, nursing, or sanitation. We have long been poorly paid, poorly managed, our benefits have been third tier and we have been used to generate vast amounts of revenue.
Not one week goes by without a new report of a major hardship affecting the very people being paid to arrive when hardships strike.
The Emergency Medical Services Public Advocacy Council (EMSPAC) poses a simple line of questioning to all EMTs and Paramedics: How much are your life and time worth? What would have to change for you to stay in EMS? Are you ready to do whatever you need to do to come to the rescue of a fellow EMT or Paramedic?
EMSPAC was founded during EMS Week of 2020 at the height of the pandemic by active-duty EMTs, Paramedics, and EMS Officers. Coming from all five sectors of NYC EMS: municipal, private, hospital-based, event medicine, and volunteers. We aim to push for real change in our field.
In under 2 years, we have gone from two partners talking over ideas to 10 working units that have enlisted approximately 650 NYC EMS members and been organized into 5 Divisions. Our aim is to advance a program of objectives to address hardship and challenge inequity throughout our field.
EMSPAC is a budding organization that can rapidly respond to the hardships faced by EMTs and Paramedics, as well as engage the public in an advocacy campaign to make real changes to this industry.
We are responding rapidly to ongoing crises with fund drives, critical stress mentorship, and non-monetary mutual aid. Over 45 hardships and major incidents have been vetted for severity and published to our members allowing us to raise tens of thousands of dollars for EMS members in need.
We have set up an Advocacy Network of over 100 local garages and stations in all 5 boroughs of NYC plus Westchester and Long Island in order to keep EMS informed of events, policy changes, news and to track active cases of EMS hardship. We provide ongoing training to our advocates to focus on reporting hardship, reporting newsworthy events, and distributing educational and outreach materials.
We have established a Press Bureau that has assisted members in getting their saves, stories, and also their grievances into local papers and mainstream media. We have established a newspaper The Third Service, to amplify the voices and stories of our members in all of EMS. The 6th edition is currently being published for release.
All of this is being done by approximately 650 EMTs, Paramedics, and EMS Officers using WhatsApp and Discord. We are an all-volunteer staff donating our time to help build this organization, while simultaneously working full time to protect our city.
Transitioning from a loose movement of friends and partners into an established 501c3 not-for-profit takes everyone's help. In order to bring real change to EMS, we need to scale up operations and professionalize our work.
We are asking our members, sympathizers, and supporters to help us launch our newly formed 501(c)3 as a fully incorporated legal entity that can raise money and write hardship grants for EMS members in need, regardless of their agency, affiliation, sector, or time on the job.
No one is getting a salary! 100% of the money being raised is for EMSPAC’s direct operational costs. This includes the varying fees of incorporation and printed materials like flyers and stickers. It will pay for hosting of our website and domain costs and includes creating the correct structures to put in place to handle all the different types of EMS Hardship.
We are asking for you to make a small contribution to our organization to strengthen and expand the work we do. We appreciate how many of you contribute time and advice in ways big and small to keep this movement growing. Help us make EMSPAC an official organization this year by expanding our capability to take action on behalf of all EMTs and Paramedics.
Stay safe out there and keep spreading the word. We are asking for your help so we can build a strong national organization to champion and support the very people the public calls when they are sick or injured. Help us support EMTs and Paramedics when hardship strikes.
The Emergency Medical Services Public Advocacy Council (EMSPAC) is asking you to contribute to our 2022 Campaign Fund. All EMSPAC Officers and Advocates are active duty EMS and unpaid volunteers. All money raised in this drive will be directly used for important core activities such as:
- 10-13, 10-85, and Cumulative Stress Hardship Response
- Formal and Informal Critical Stress Debriefing
- Advocacy around improving workplace conditions and safety
- A Help Card to be distributed with all available EMS resources
- Peer Mentorship services
- Original Continuing Medical Education resources
- Stickers, posters, and an EMS Week Car Convoy
- The Quarterly release of The Third Service Newspaper
- Maintaining web hosting and social media content services on IG, FB, Twitter, Reddit, and Discord.
- State fees of incorporation of a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit entity
Thank you for your support! Please keep spreading the word.
EMSPAC STEERING COMMITTEE
EMSPAC Board of Directors
[email redacted]
www.emspac.org
IG: EMS.PAC
FB: EMSPAC
Twitter: EMSPAC1
Reddit: EMSPAC
Despite sharing many risks with other uniformed services, most EMS providers make 40% less than police, firefighters, nurses, or sanitation workers. Most in EMS, over 70%, leave the field in under 4 years citing low pay and working conditions. This leaves systems lacking experienced providers to teach the next generation and respond to emergencies and care for your loved ones. It seems that every week we turn to GoFundMe to ask for monetary support as another one of our colleagues has been struck down, sick with cancer, killed on the way to work, or who died by their own hand from what they have seen.
Throughout the pandemic and long before, the Emergency Medical Service has demonstrated vast resilience, empathy, and fearlessness in the pursuit of saving and prolonging human lives. For all of our history as a service, we have never known parity with police, fire, nursing, or sanitation. We have long been poorly paid, poorly managed, our benefits have been third tier and we have been used to generate vast amounts of revenue.
Not one week goes by without a new report of a major hardship affecting the very people being paid to arrive when hardships strike.
The Emergency Medical Services Public Advocacy Council (EMSPAC) poses a simple line of questioning to all EMTs and Paramedics: How much are your life and time worth? What would have to change for you to stay in EMS? Are you ready to do whatever you need to do to come to the rescue of a fellow EMT or Paramedic?
EMSPAC was founded during EMS Week of 2020 at the height of the pandemic by active-duty EMTs, Paramedics, and EMS Officers. Coming from all five sectors of NYC EMS: municipal, private, hospital-based, event medicine, and volunteers. We aim to push for real change in our field.
In under 2 years, we have gone from two partners talking over ideas to 10 working units that have enlisted approximately 650 NYC EMS members and been organized into 5 Divisions. Our aim is to advance a program of objectives to address hardship and challenge inequity throughout our field.
EMSPAC is a budding organization that can rapidly respond to the hardships faced by EMTs and Paramedics, as well as engage the public in an advocacy campaign to make real changes to this industry.
We are responding rapidly to ongoing crises with fund drives, critical stress mentorship, and non-monetary mutual aid. Over 45 hardships and major incidents have been vetted for severity and published to our members allowing us to raise tens of thousands of dollars for EMS members in need.
We have set up an Advocacy Network of over 100 local garages and stations in all 5 boroughs of NYC plus Westchester and Long Island in order to keep EMS informed of events, policy changes, news and to track active cases of EMS hardship. We provide ongoing training to our advocates to focus on reporting hardship, reporting newsworthy events, and distributing educational and outreach materials.
We have established a Press Bureau that has assisted members in getting their saves, stories, and also their grievances into local papers and mainstream media. We have established a newspaper The Third Service, to amplify the voices and stories of our members in all of EMS. The 6th edition is currently being published for release.
All of this is being done by approximately 650 EMTs, Paramedics, and EMS Officers using WhatsApp and Discord. We are an all-volunteer staff donating our time to help build this organization, while simultaneously working full time to protect our city.
Transitioning from a loose movement of friends and partners into an established 501c3 not-for-profit takes everyone's help. In order to bring real change to EMS, we need to scale up operations and professionalize our work.
We are asking our members, sympathizers, and supporters to help us launch our newly formed 501(c)3 as a fully incorporated legal entity that can raise money and write hardship grants for EMS members in need, regardless of their agency, affiliation, sector, or time on the job.
No one is getting a salary! 100% of the money being raised is for EMSPAC’s direct operational costs. This includes the varying fees of incorporation and printed materials like flyers and stickers. It will pay for hosting of our website and domain costs and includes creating the correct structures to put in place to handle all the different types of EMS Hardship.
We are asking for you to make a small contribution to our organization to strengthen and expand the work we do. We appreciate how many of you contribute time and advice in ways big and small to keep this movement growing. Help us make EMSPAC an official organization this year by expanding our capability to take action on behalf of all EMTs and Paramedics.
Stay safe out there and keep spreading the word. We are asking for your help so we can build a strong national organization to champion and support the very people the public calls when they are sick or injured. Help us support EMTs and Paramedics when hardship strikes.
The Emergency Medical Services Public Advocacy Council (EMSPAC) is asking you to contribute to our 2022 Campaign Fund. All EMSPAC Officers and Advocates are active duty EMS and unpaid volunteers. All money raised in this drive will be directly used for important core activities such as:
- 10-13, 10-85, and Cumulative Stress Hardship Response
- Formal and Informal Critical Stress Debriefing
- Advocacy around improving workplace conditions and safety
- A Help Card to be distributed with all available EMS resources
- Peer Mentorship services
- Original Continuing Medical Education resources
- Stickers, posters, and an EMS Week Car Convoy
- The Quarterly release of The Third Service Newspaper
- Maintaining web hosting and social media content services on IG, FB, Twitter, Reddit, and Discord.
- State fees of incorporation of a 501(c)3 Not-for-Profit entity
Thank you for your support! Please keep spreading the word.
EMSPAC STEERING COMMITTEE
EMSPAC Board of Directors
[email redacted]
www.emspac.org
IG: EMS.PAC
FB: EMSPAC
Twitter: EMSPAC1
Reddit: EMSPAC
Fundraising team (2)
EMSPAC Emergency Medical Services Public Advocacy Council
Organizer
New York, NY
Michael Combs
Team member
