Celebrate Wear It Purple Day
Today is Wear It Purple Day, with the theme, “Your Passion, Your Pride”. This is a significant day in the calendar where we stop to consider the importance of protecting our LGBTIQA+ youth.
Youth are not just the future of CFA; they are very much our present. We have more than 1,100 juniors across the state, all working hard to develop their skills to help take part in future campaigns to protect lives and property as part of our essential work and mission.
Some of these young people do, and will, identify as LGTBIQA+. Today is an important opportunity to celebrate the diversity of our junior teams and to stand up for those young people who are coming up through our ranks.
CFA’s behavioural standards set out clear expectations about how we take a zero-tolerance approach to bullying and harassment of any members.
This Wear It Purple Day I also want to encourage you, wherever you are in our great organisation, to have a conversation with your brigade or team about how we can all find ways to become more inclusive and welcome more young and diverse members.
You can view more information about Wear It Purple Day here (https://www.wearitpurple.org/)
Have a great day wherever you are and thank you for supporting this years’ Wear It Purple Day.
Alen Slijepcevic AFSM; Wear It Purple Day Ambassador
DCO Fire Risk, Research and Community Preparedness