Our Mission
HERO HAVEN offers a safe place for emergency responders to connect, support, and encourage each other in their unique "brotherhood".
A place of trust and confidentiality, with opportunities to share stories and debrief from traumas experienced. All fire fighters, EMS, police, dispatchers are welcome.
What We Do
HERO HAVEN offers mental/emotional healing tools and professional mental health resources to encourage healing at no cost to the first responder.
Just like the firefighter who breaks his leg at a call scene will need time and proper treatment to heal his broken body… so do the firefighters who walk away with mental and emotional wounds from the devastation that is experienced at the trauma scene. A type of sacrifice that only another “brother” can really understand.
Hero Haven, and the resources within, give volunteer first responders the time, the tools and the understanding to identify and begin to heal all the pieces of a broken hero. So that he/she can continue to bravely serve their community, be a pillar of strength for their family; while walking in peace with trusted “brothers” at their side. Sometimes you are a hero, and sometimes you need a hero.
Heroes of A Lifetime Start By Healing Themselves
"Hero Haven has helped me learn and cope with the trauma and burdens I had stored away for so many years. I have started to see my light and now, I use my light to help others find their light." - D.W.
Hidden In Plain Sight
*Trigger Warning* The role of modern-day volunteer firefighters and First Responders has changed dramatically. Calls used to be primarily around fire suppression, but now include a variety of crises such as mental health incidents, shootings, traffic accidents and more. Volunteer first responders are now six times more likely to attempt suicide than the general population, and almost half of volunteer first responders have experienced thoughts of suicide. Even if you don't need help, someone you know does.
22%
Meet the criteria for PTSD
11%
Live with clinical depression
37%
Are afflicted by sleep disorders
19%
Have made suicidal plans
30%
Grapple with alcohol dependency
15.5%
Have attempted suicide