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Learn. Connect. Support. Grow.
First Responder Forward provides a virtual space for first responders, families, educators, clinicians, coaches, peer-support leaders, and community partners to connect through education and nonclinical support. Programs hosted here are educational, peer-support, recovery-support, coaching, or community-based programs and are not mental-health treatment or psychotherapy.
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Learn
Education and psychoeducation for responders, families and the people who support them.
- •Psychoeducation
- •Educational webinars
- •Workshops
- •First responder cultural education
- •Family education
- •Wellness education
Connect
Peer support and community conversation with people who understand the work.
- •Peer-support groups
- •Profession-specific support groups
- •Family/spouse groups
- •Retiree groups
- •Community discussions
Recover
Recovery-support and mutual-support meetings, plus substance-use education.
- •Recovery-support meetings
- •Substance-use education
- •Mutual-support meetings
- •Recovery education
Grow
Coaching and development for identity, career, leadership and resilience.
- •Coaching groups
- •Identity development
- •Career transition
- •Leadership
- •Resilience
- •Personal development
FRF-created recovery meetings use generic naming such as “Recovery Support Meeting.” They are not Alcoholics Anonymous or AA meetings unless an authorised, independent AA group is operating the meeting itself.
FRF Community & Education is not a clinical treatment platform. Programs are educational, peer-support, recovery-support, coaching or community-based. They are not psychotherapy, counselling, medical or mental-health treatment, diagnosis, clinical assessment or crisis intervention. In an emergency, call 911 or 988.