Title:
How Do You Feel Today
Topic:
Emotional and Mental Health in Aviation
Speaker(s):
CA Charlie Curreri
Brief Description:
Pilots operate in arduous environments that often create occupational, personal, physical, and mental health issues. It is well documented that pilots are averse to reporting medical and mental health issues to their AME, and subsequently avoid seeking care. With this in mind, this discussion will cover topics that include the recent 2024 FAA Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) on Pilot Mental Health, barriers to self-reporting, and the need to improve mental health literacy while reducing stigma in the aviation community.
Select Number:
SO19138870
Location of Seminar:
Broward College South Campus
7200 Pines Blvd. Pembroke Pines, FL
Building 66, room 139/156
Hollywood, FL 33024
Directions to Venue:
If you are on I-95, then exit on Pembroke Pines Blvd. From the WEST, then turn left into Broward College, left into the college, go around all the parking lots till the LAST building Number 66. Come on in.
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Seating:
100
seats at the facility,
99
remaining for online registration.
Registration Information:
Sponsoring Division:
FAASTeam And FSDO 19
Additional Event Information & Acknowledgement of Industry Sponsor(s):
Thanks to our speaker CA Charlie Curreri, PhD, LPC.
Charlie is a recently retired A-320 captain and founder/senior manager of Project Wingman, an industry-leading pilot peer assistance program for over 14,000 pilots at American Airlines. He is President Emeritus of the International Peer Aviation Assist Coalition, a highly recognized international consortium of aviation peer programs and regulators established in March 2018, and currently the Center for Aviation Mental Health Director. Additionally, he recently co-chaired the FAA Aviation Rulemaking Committee (ARC) on Pilot Mental Health in 2024. He is a retired Air Force F-16 combat veteran of Desert Storm with over 3,000 hours of fighter/instructor time. He has accumulated over 11,000 hours flying F-16s, T-38s, MD-80s, Fokker 100s, and the A-320. He is also a licensed professional counselor in Texas and holds a Ph.D. in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from Grand Canyon University in Arizona. Charlie has been married for over 39 years and has six children and nine grandchildren.
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Thanks to Broward College and the Aviation Department for their help to make our seminar. A special thanks to the associate-dean Carla Pinto, Edith Bohnenblust and captain JP McGinnis.
Equal Access Information:
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Credit Applicability:
1 Credit for Basic Knowledge Topic 3
FAASTeam Project Information:
National Project:
Attend Aviation Safety Event Sponsored by a non-FAA Group or Organization
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