About ResponderStrong

The mental, emotional, and physical impacts of emergency response work can compromise our ability to be there for our brothers and sisters in uniform, to be engaged with our families, and to protect our communities. However, when we are empowered with knowledge, tools, and resources, we can thrive and grow through this work, improving our lives and the lives of those around us.

Founded at the National Mental Health Innovation Center of the University of Colorado Anschutz in 2016, ResponderStrong is a collaboration between Emergency Responders and their advocates. Our mission is to improve mental health supports for Emergency Responders, including Healthcare Workers, and their families through joint focuses on intervention and prevention. Our site serves as a resource map for Responder-informed crisis and clinical services as well as easily accessible educational content and tools for Responders, their families, their leaders, and the clinicians who work with them.

In 2020, ResponderStrong joined All Clear Foundation as its mental health initiative. In late 2023, we folded All Clear’s content into the ResponderStrong brand and joined our research partner, NDRI Ventures, where we partner with other service-oriented and evidence-based initiatives to further expand our impact. Check out our custom educational content regarding relationships, stress management, and resiliency and let us know how we can better serve you.

Target

Every day, Emergency Responders face stressful and disturbing situations involving traumatic injury and death. Frequent exposure to these critical incidents and other occupational stressors can place us at heightened risk for:

  • Anxiety and depression
  • Substance misuse and addiction
  • Strained social relationships and divorce
  • Decreased performance
  • Stress injury and post-traumatic symptoms (sleep problems, flashbacks, heightened reactivity)
  • Suicidality
  • Health issues (GI, cardiac, diabetes, metabolic, muscular)

However, these issues can be prevented, minimized, or healed when we address them. The science is continually evolving, empowering us with better education, resources and tools. If you are trained (career or volunteer) to serve your community in times of emergency, crisis, or disaster, we are here to serve you from hire through retirement. Together we are stronger!

Team

In 2016, a group of Emergency Responders teamed up with the National Mental Health Innovation Center at  the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to improve mental health supports for Emergency Responders, including HealthCare Workers, and their families. Since then ResponderStrong has continued to grow, first on its own, then within the All Clear Foundation, and now within NDRI Ventures. We support career, volunteer and retired Responders. Our mission is to improve the overall wellbeing of those who serve our communities. We provide a trusted, easily accessible platform full of vetted education, tools, and clinical resources for Responders, their leaders, their families, and the clinicians who work with them. We provide no or low-cost education, tools, and other resources to meet Responders’ where they are. When we know better, we do better and together we are stronger.

WORK

ResponderStrong is committed to the belief that equipping Responders with the tools to protect themselves from the mental and emotional exposures of the job is vital to their overall performance and wellbeing  – from recruitment through retirement – as well as to their families and the people and communities they serve.

Partners

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ResponderStrong

NDRI Ventures, 31 West 34th St, Suite 8006, New York, New York 10001


info@ResponderStrong.org
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