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FRONTLINE STRONG - First Responders in Michigan are encouraged

to sign up for CISM training across the state.

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. 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 program is being developed and implemented with representatives of the Police Officers Association of Michigan (POAM), the Michigan Professional Firefighters Union, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Department of Corrections, paramedics, and dispatchers. For more information about the program and to request to get the training, click on this link to sign up for the training. The training is intended for Law Enforcement, Fire Fighters, Emergency Medical workers, Dispatch workers, and Corrections Officers.

Michigan Crisis Response Association (MCRA) hosts annual training

event in Roscommon, MI, in 2023.

The MCRA has hosted trainings in the state of Michigan for more than 35 years. For many years, the training was held at a training center in Tustin, MI. The training center closed after 2019 and the 2020 training was cancelled due to Covid-19. The annual training has returned and is being held September 10-12, 2023 at the Ralph A. MacMullen Center. For information about MCRA, resources, and additional trainings, visit the website for MCRA.