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Heartland Education Inc saw a huge demand for mental health help in the First Responder arena and created a Critical Incident Stress Management Peer Support team. The Peer Support team was specially trained by The Warrior’s Rest Foundation to offer rural Oklahoma first responders the mental health help that they need. The team is activated and deploys whenever a first responder agency, whether that may be law enforcement, emergency medicine, or a fire department needs crisis intervention after a traumatic event.
Mental health in the first responder arena is consistently placed on the back burner as responders are often too busy caring for others to care for themselves and treating their own mental health is long overdue. This team is ran strictly off grants and donations, which are used to train and equip the team as well as provide funding to first responders whom may be financially restricted from accessing professional mental health help. Our motto has long been, “we saved a life today” as we train first responder agencies daily on life-saving skills to use in the field with their patients, but it is time we also save the lives of our own first responders.
