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Contributions to

Public Safety Professionals Retreat

enable First Responders to learn new and valuable coping skills to manage their stress- and trauma-related symptoms so they may continue in the professions that they love, lead healthy lives, and retire well.

Your generous donation of any amount directly furnishes attendance scholarships and provides retreat materials for ProSPeR Guests.

The Public Safety Professionals Retreat (PSPR), or ProSPeR, is a clinician-guided, peer-driven six-day intensive outpatient retreat that provides emergency responders the opportunity to learn and practice new coping skills while improving personal and professional relationships. PSPR focuses on using prevention and early-intervention models to effectively address issues including substance abuse, anxiety, depression, sleep disturbances, suicidal thoughts, and other stress- and trauma-related symptoms. The goal of ProSPeR is to enable professionals in public safety roles to restore and resume work or retirement in a positive, productive manner and avoid negative outcomes such as family dissolution, chemical dependence, or suicide.

At PSPR, the essential elements of developing peer support systems and understanding mental health are conducted by specially trained peers, chaplains, and clinical professionals. Each day encompasses a motivational theme that is reinforced by practicing specific skills and activity engagement designed to strengthen a guest's trust and reestablish confidence. Various new stress relief outlets are introduced and encouraged at ProSPeR such as horseback riding, swimming, fishing, hiking, yoga, and creative arts. 

At the end of the week, guests of the Public Safety Professionals Retreat have learned and practiced new life skills, gained friends and confidants who understand the issues (personal and professional) related to being an emergency responder, and have established trusted lifelines for continuing support.