Serving Those Who Protect the Public: The Pitt Center for Emergency Responder Wellness
Project Description
Emergency Response Personnel (ERP) protect the public despite occupational hazards that threaten their mental health. This Center will be a clinical innovation hub that: 1) delivers accessible, culturally adapted, evidence-based mental health interventions; 2) trains the next generation of health science students to work with ERP; 3) fosters the success of local ERP peer support networks; and 4) as a future goal, make major contributions to the scientific understanding of post-trauma recovery processes. Goals for the seed phase are to establish our team, build collaborations with local ERP departments, demonstrate feasibility and initial clinical impact, and compete for federal funding.
Principal Investigator
Eric Meyer
Rehabilitation Science and Technology/Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling
Select Collaborators
Melanie Cherry
Rehabilitation Science and Technology/Clinical Rehabilitation and Mental Health Counseling
Thomas Platt
Rehabilitation Science and Technology/Emergency Medicine
Sheila Roth
Rehabilitation Science and Technology/Emergency Medicine