Our Affiliates network is dedicated to the continuing mental health, wellness, and support for all of our members.
With over 20 agencies, spanning in excess of 1000 staff, covering more than 110,567 Sq miles,
we stand strong and united to endure the challenges facing our professions.
The why ...as a profession, we are overrepresented for suicide and other mental health conditions.
The reality is that we can do better to protect our people from adverse effects of the career.
It is possible to thrive, not just survive in EMS.
— Kate Elkins, MPH, an EMS specialist with the NHTSA Office of EMS and a longtime paramedic
MISSION
Our mission is to provide quality mental health resources and support to our first-responders and hospital health care professionals so they may live the very best lives possible on and off duty. We accomplish this with collaborative efforts to improve resilience by means of breaking down barriers surrounding mental health and align those that serve with optimum mental readiness.
VISION
Our Vision is to help build a stronger, more united public safety and health care community. We strive to be an effective joint collaborative effort to serve those in need regarding the improvement of mental readiness and resiliency. We envision normalizing the subject of mental health by placing importance on the care and maintenance of our minds and emotional health just as we do our physical ailments.
VALUES
Inclusivity– of the entire public safety community and hospital health care responders.
Strength – in our efforts to support one another.
Unity – together we are stronger.
Action – taking action as members and as an organization to raise each other up
Advocate - for best peer support practices and be stewards of our art and science of caring for those in need.
