police and firefighters attending another funeral. Coping With the Past Few Years — And Emerging Stronger as a Police Officer Police officers experience tremendous stress in the best of times. Civil unrest, anti-police sentiment, and COVID-19 outbreaks have taken that stress to new levels. How can...
It’s estimated that 21 military veterans die by suicide every day. Tegan Rowley was nearly one of them. But now the Air Force veteran has devoted her life to counseling and helping other veterans feeling that same despair. And that makes her one of our FOX31 Serving Those Who Serve Heroes of the...
Here for My Peer https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8582745/ Thank you to our firefighters from AT&T! Due to COVID restrictions, our sponsor AT&T has not able to make it to our events, they did want to send along this gratitude video to our fire fighters on behalf of our...
Due to COVID restrictions, our sponsor AT&T has not able to make it to our events, they did want to send along this gratitude video to our fire fighters on behalf of our AT&T Colorado Employees! AT&T Colorado: Gratitude for First Responders & Essential Workers from VOX Dallas on...
In 2018 Icare ambulance donated an older Flight for Life ambulance to the foundation to assist us with our needs for an event vehicle. We started pricing out upgrades and a wrap to cover the sweet bright orange paint on the ambo. The quotes were coming in very high and we were working on donations...
Nobody wants to know about what I do. People might pay us lip service and say we’re heroes, but our stories aren’t the kind anyone actually wants to hear about. Kids in this country grow up with toy firetrucks, or maybe playing cops and robbers, but who dreams of becoming a paramedic? That’s...
Foundation 1023 is just one of the many organizations who came together to help fill the baskets with meaningful gifts. When Chad asked for handwritten thank you notes to go in the baskets, over a thousand arrived to Denver. Another 1,000 will be sent directly to Las Vegas to be distributed with...
DENVER — It is one of the most stressful jobs in America. Round-the-clock shifts, high divorce rate and it can be very dangerous. When a fellow police officer is killed, the trauma resonates like a shock wave to those men and women who wear the badge. For many in law enforcement, seeking help is...
A white paper commissioned by the Ruderman Family Foundation revealed that first responders are more likely to die by suicide than in the line of duty. Suicide is a result of mental illness, including depression and PTSD, which stems from constant exposure to death and destruction. The white paper...
Three soccer legends exercise for a good cause. Kristine Lilly, along with Mia Hamm and Tisha Venturini, worked out with gym regulars at Orange Theory Fitness to raise money for first responders. ”My husband’s a former firefighter in Boston,” Lilly said. “So I do understand the...
First Responders are ten times more likely to commit suicide than the average American and more than one third of First Responders are affected by PTSD. Many of us think of the military when it comes to PTSD; not many of us have considered what a First Responder faces over the course of an entire...