Poster for The First Response Wellness Foundation featuring five emergency responders in uniform, with a blue and orange splash background, and the foundation's name and logo.

Become apart of the change, we NEED you!

Are you interested in playing a pivotal role in breaking the stigma surrounding mental health? Helping grow the mission? Having the ability to operate a lodge of your own? We want you to join our First Response Wellness Foundation family! If you want to operate a lodge, we invite you to do so! If you are interested, you must meet the following criteria:

  • You must reside inside of the United States of America.

  • You must be a first responder (law enforcement, dispatcher, firefighter and/or EMS personnel), the spouse/child of a first responder (the first responder must also be a member of the organization).

  • You must be 21+ years of age to serve as a presiding officer of any lodge, due to alcohol.

  • You must have an understanding of how nonprofits operate and a basic understanding of marketing/recruitment tactics.

  • You must pass an application process to open the lodge.

  • Your desired lodge location cannot be within 10 miles of another First Response Wellness Foundation lodge.