Tri-State Peer Support Team has educated and provided mental health resources to first responders in need for four years. Founding group member Jim Petry is the Miami Township Fire Department ...

ALEXANDRIA, Ky. (WXIX) - The Northern Kentucky Police Chiefs Association is starting a peer support group to help law enforcement officers through the stress and trauma that comes with the job. The ...

AUGUSTA, Maine (WMTW) - First responders often encounter traumatizing situations while on the job, so the Augusta Fire Department has implemented a program to support the mental health of its members.

New York Health Commissioner reacts to highest weekly flu hospitalizations on record New York state health officials say this flu season is shaping up to be one of the most severe on record, with ...

SOUTH BEND—When South Bend Fire Department Scene Safety Officer Capt. Chuck Wawrzyniak spoke at a balloon release Jan. 28 to honor the six young victims of a residential fire a week earlier, he ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Workers that help the homeless say they are seeing more psychotic episodes by those seeking help than ever before. The majority of these situations is unfolding in Old Town. At ...

Kerman is executive director of Blanchet House in Portland. Last August, I wrote an op-ed outlining the need for a team of mental health and peer-support specialists to regularly circulate among the ...