Support for those who answer the call.
Law enforcement, fire, EMS, dispatch, corrections, and other first responders carry experiences that often follow them long after the shift ends.
Mental Health Awareness
Encouraging early conversations, reducing isolation, and making it easier to identify appropriate professional and community resources.
Peer & Family Connection
Supporting the responder and the people beside them through community relationships, education, and resource navigation.
Community Partnerships
Working with agencies, associations, local organizations, businesses, and faith communities to strengthen the support network.
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Mental health support is available for law enforcement officers, firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, emergency dispatchers and telecommunicators, corrections personnel, and other public safety professionals throughout Texas.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
- Call or text 988
- Available 24/7
- Free and confidential crisis support for anyone experiencing emotional distress, suicidal thoughts, severe anxiety, depression, or another mental health crisis.
- If there is an immediate life-threatening emergency, call 911.
TDEM Statewide Peer Support Network
Texas Division of Emergency Management. Call or text 979-820-PEER (7337).
- Confidential and voluntary peer-to-peer support.
- Available to paid, volunteer, active, and retired Texas first responders.
- Emotional support following traumatic incidents.
- Wellness and resiliency assistance.
- Connections to professional behavioral health services.
- Participants may request support anonymously.
TEEX Public Safety Wellness & Counseling
Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service. Confidential in-person and virtual counseling for Texas public safety professionals.
- No-cost counseling may be available to qualifying first responders experiencing barriers to obtaining care.
- PTSD and trauma, anxiety, depression.
- Stress, burnout, and grief.
- Relationship difficulties.
- Critical-incident exposure.
- Counselors are familiar with first responder culture.
Texas Law Enforcement Peer Network (TLEPN)
Phone: 972-338-1314
Email: TLEPN@untdallas.edu
- Confidential peer support for Texas peace officers, jailers, and telecommunicators/dispatchers.
- Connects public safety personnel with trained peers who understand occupational trauma, stress, and burnout.
- Operates independently of individual police departments and agencies.
TSAFF Firefighter Peer Support
Texas State Association of Fire Fighters Peer Support Team, for active and retired Texas firefighters.
- Peer-support members are firefighters trained in crisis intervention, therapeutic communication, behavioral health support, and community resource navigation.
- PTSD, depression, anxiety, burnout, and anger.
- Substance-use concerns.
- Critical incidents.
- Family and relationship stress.
- Peer-support contacts are maintained throughout Texas.
Warriors Research Institute
Based in Texas through Baylor Scott & White Health, specializing in behavioral health research and treatment involving first responders and Veterans.
- PTSD and trauma.
- Suicide prevention.
- Substance use.
- Mental health stigma.
- Telehealth.
- Traumatic brain injury.
First responders can contact the institute to ask about current treatment programs, research programs, and available services.
Texas Local Mental Health Authorities
Texas Health and Human Services maintains local behavioral health authorities (LMHA/LBHA) serving counties throughout the state.
- 24/7 crisis intervention.
- Mental health assessments.
- Counseling and psychiatric services.
- Substance-use resources.
- Community mental health programs.
First responders can search by county to locate their local mental health authority and crisis number.
2-1-1 Texas
Dial 211 or call 877-541-7905. Available statewide.
- Mental health counseling and crisis services.
- Substance-use treatment.
- Support groups.
- Housing and financial assistance.
- Family services and community resources.
Mental health and substance-use resources can be located based on the caller’s community.
Safe Call Now
Call 206-459-3020. Available 24/7/365.
- Confidential support designed specifically for first responders, emergency-services personnel, and their families.
- Peer advocates include current and former first responders.
- PTSD and trauma, depression and anxiety.
- Suicide concerns.
- Substance use and addiction.
- Stress, family, and personal problems.
- Treatment and resource referrals.
Available to Texas first responders even though the service operates nationally.
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The People Who Help Others Deserve Help Too
First responders routinely see and experience situations most people will never encounter. Seeking help does not diminish your strength, your service, or your ability to do your job.
Whether you need professional counseling, confidential peer support, crisis assistance, or simply someone who understands the job, resources are available throughout Texas.
No One Fights Alone.