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“We go where the data is and implement the best practices.”ĭr. This is right in the trenches with the community, in real time, to develop evidence-based approaches to help as many people as possible,” said David Rosenberg, M.D., chair of the WSU Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences. “Frontline Strong Together distinguishes Wayne State University in that the research we do is not in some ivory tower. The programs will assist police, firefighters, emergency medical technicians, dispatchers and corrections personnel and their families in addressing and reducing sources of stress from both acute and chronic stressors. A $2 million grant from the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services will fund the development of education, training, support and behavioral health treatment services by experts of the Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences. Mental health experts from Wayne State University and Wayne Health have teamed with Kenneth Wolf, Ph.D., director of the Incident Management Team, and the 211 crisis and referral network, to develop the program.

#STRONG TOGETHER PROFESSIONAL#

The program is being developed and implemented with representatives of the Michigan Professional Firefighters Union, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Department of Corrections, paramedics and dispatchers. The program, Frontline Strong Together, will be available electronically and in-person to first responders and their families in nearly all of Michigan’s 83 counties this year. The Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences has teamed with the State of Michigan to develop a comprehensive behavioral and mental health training and support program for the state’s first responders and their families to address the stress they face in their duties protecting residents.

Strong together