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Donate to The First Responder Behavioral Health Foundation.
Join us in helping shift the first responder education and training paradigm to include mental health and behavioral health training for all first responders. Your donation allows us to carry out the mission of The First Responder Behavioral Health Foundation and The First Responder Behavioral Health Institute. Your contribution helps to fund research into workplace safety for first responders, innovative new education and training programs, and community outreach to smaller agencies that can’t afford to invest in paradigm-shifting new programs.
We are the response to a broken healthcare system. We are the response to the urgent needs of our first responders for better behavioral health care. We are a needed answer to training first responders to respond to public suffering from mental illness competently.
Donate to the First Responder Behavioral Heath Foundation
The lives we save may be our own.
How your donation makes a difference
Every dollar donated helps us provide education and training programs to first responders and first responder agencies. 70% of America’s fire departments are staffed by volunteers who often struggle to find the training dollars. Your donations positively impact systemic change in the areas of first responder behavioral health and how first responders meet the needs of the public in crisis.
Examples Of Our Work Include:
- Online and in-person educational programs in first responder behavioral health, organizational development, leadership development, and mental health crisis response team training for 911 systems.
- The development of peer support team training programs and the leadership of clinically directed peer support teams. Most peer support teams’ function without clinical direction and we believe its time that changes.
- Providing funding for low income first responders to receive culturally competent counseling services when they are needing counseling and psychotherapy.
- We provide clinician-led critical incident stress management and critical incident stress debriefings for agencies that cannot afford to have culturally competent clinicians on staff.
- Provide a common platform for first responders to give voice to the need for systemic change.
- To aid us in aggressive advocacy at the local and national level legislatively.
