first responders experience significantly greater PTSD, lower life expectancies, suicides, substance abuse, and physical comorbidities.  These issues require a proactive and predictive behavioral care approach.  First responders may distrust their employers and insurers.  And they don’t want to lose their jobs or rank for seeking mental health and substance abuse care.  

and have 5x increased risk of on-job death, PTSD, and depression. But every year, more of them die by suicide than on duty, primarily because the system relies on them to access their own care.  But they may not get the care they need.  The healthcare system reacts to them, usually too late and with great cost. 

which is one reason it fails and delivers reactive, episodic and expensive care.

early, before a serious problem is observed.

which transforms behavioral health from reactive to proactive.  With peer support on the frontline, we nudge first responders into the healthcare they won’t access themselves.

along with individual contextual information.

and more than $100,000 for a police officer.  We can’t afford to lose them to substance abuse, burnout, resignation or suicide.