Warriors Rest Foundation

We accomplish the mission of aiding in the mental and emotional health of first responders by building peer support teams within agencies. The first responder rarely is interested in going to see a mental health professional. The culture itself if prone to being untrusting and therefore the success of having trained crisis intervention peer support work within the culture has been highly successful. Our mission is to create peer support teams within agencies across the nation to help the strain of the job, to minimize the suicide rate, to lower the job attrition and increase the success these heroes have in their relationships both at work and home,.

We put peer support teams together! We are trainers for International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF) to teach Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) which is a crisis intervention technique that helps minimize the impact of trauma and stress on first responders. Additionally, we put peer support teams together using CISM as well as other proactive type tools of instruction such as; suicide intervention, emotional survival, substance abuse prevention, fitness & nutrition, physical wellness strategies etc.

We also advocate for wellness by performing wellness trainings and presentations to inspire and motivate the community of first responders to live a healthier lifestyle.

Additionally, we also provide peer support services and counseling services to those in need. Specifically, suicide intervention, crisis intervention and EMDR (eye movement desensitization and reprocessing) which is a therapeutic technique that works fabulously to help the first resonder process traumatic events.

We have our core team of leadership and then we have a large team of contractors that we use to teach, train, inspire, motivate, intervene and lead to pathways of health in whatever capacity is needed,

We have accomplished building approx. 42 peer support teams around the country.