First Responders

The Code Green Campaign® is a first responder oriented mental health advocacy and education organization. Also known as Code Green, we serve all types of first responders, including firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, dispatchers, police, corrections, air medical, and search & rescue. Our name is a combination of the color for mental health awareness (green), and from the “code alerts” that EMS uses to designate an emergency patient. For example, if someone is having a stroke or heart attack that needs rapid intervention, first responders will tell the hospital the patient is having a “code stroke” or “code STEMI”. The idea is that Code Green is calling a code alert on the mental health of first responders.

The mission of Badge of Life is to lessen the impacts of both stress and trauma, the latter of which in particular can lead to posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and police suicide. The numbers are only the tip of the iceberg.  For every police suicide, there are at least 1,000 police officers suffering from some symptoms of PTSD.  An officer commits suicide every 81 hours.  More officers die of suicide than die of shootings and traffic accidents combined.  

IN HARM’S WAY is a federally funded program that offers training seminars and workshops nationally on suicide prevention.  This webpage offers a plethora of resources, reproducible materials, articles with varying viewpoints, statistics and opinions from which readers can form their own conclusions on the magnitude of the law enforcement suicide problem, its causes and the best approaches to finding a solution.  Statistics are skewed due to the fact that agencies are not required to catalog and report suicide cases and, therefore, frequently agencies do not record suicides as such due to a variety of reasons.

In Public Safety is an American Military University (AMU) sponsored website that features news, analysis and commentary on issues relating to law enforcement, emergency management, fire services and national intelligence. This site features in-depth discussions authored by leading experts with decades of experience in their field. 

n Public Safety is an American Military University (AMU) sponsored website that features news, analysis and commentary on issues relating to law enforcement, emergency management, fire services and national intelligence. This site features in-depth discussions authored by leading experts with decades of experience in their field including mental health issues.  

The aim of this organization to minister to the needs of Law Enforcement Suicide Survivors in offering Support through our network of Support Angels, Care in the form of affordable mental health counseling for Law Survivors, and Prevention of suicide by educating officers about the symptoms of PTSD.

The mission of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. is to provide leadership, education, training, consultation, and support services in comprehensive crisis intervention and disaster behavioral health services to the emergency response professions, other organizations, and communities worldwide.