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To the extent permitted by law, AFAC, the Hospital Research Foundation, Military and Emergency Services Health Australia, the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia, Flinders University, the University of British Columbia and the Bushfire and Natural Hazards CRC (including its employees and consultants) exclude all liability to any person for any consequences, including but no. [...] Following a call for expressions of interest, the BNHCRC engaged the University of Adelaide to work collaboratively with Flinders University, the University of Western Australia, Military and Emergency Services Health Australia, and the University of British Columbia. [...] 15 1.2 Project Aims and Objectives The overall aim of the project was to understand what can be done at an individual, local and organisation-wide level to minimise the short- and long-term impacts of potentially traumatising events and to support and promote good mental health and wellbeing for young adult (16–25-year- old) volunteers in emergency service organisations. [...] To summarise the international and national evidence concerning the prevalence of mental health symptoms and/or psychological distress in young fire and emergency service volunteers and individual, social and organisational risk and protective factors for mental health. [...] To create a summary of self-reported mental health and wellbeing in the context of risk and protective factors among young Australian emergency service personnel using data from the Answering the Call: National Health and Wellbeing Study of Police and Emergency Services and the Metropolitan Fire Service Health and Wellbeing Study.