Are You A First Responder or The Spouse of A First Responder? If so, the Live Online First Responder Family Support Program, Is For You!
Registration Opening October 4, 2019. Program starting January 2020
Is Your Family Hurting?
First Responders have unique stressors that they deal with on a regular basis. No one else understands what it's like to support their families while managing these stressors.
The first responder family online support program is here to support families just like yours who are struggling with the impact of being a first responder family.
First Responders families have such unique circumstances that they deal with on a daily basis, that overtime can hurt a family. In your day to day life this might show up as:
- conflict amongst spouses or children
- anxiety
- trouble sleeping
- struggling to support your children and your spouse
- you and your spouse are struggling to connect under the weight of these stressors
- you are not sure how to talk to your children but know they are having a hard time as they are acting out, worrying, sick and/or not sleeping well.
Here's How The First Responder Family Support Program Is Going To Help You:
The First Responder Family Online Support Program is the first of it's kind. It's a six week LIVE online group support program designed for First Responder Families. You will learn strategies to manage the effects of this lifestyle. We are not going to go over basic stress management strategies that anyone could look at. In this program you are going to learn specific strategies to support you as a first responder family. How to take care of yourself, so you can support your spouse and together you both can help your children through this.
"Kim is a great facilitator. We have learned to have open communication at home. We gained a better awareness of care for self and our family."
Sergeant
Hi I'm Kimberly Williamson. In 2015, my husband of almost twenty years, a First Responder developed Post Traumatic Stress Disorder.
Even though I was a social worker with mental health training, I didn't recognize the signs until it had gotten out of hand.
I isolated myself. I felt shame this was happening to us. I felt lonely in my marriage. I stopped taking care of myself.
I tried to find support specifically for what we were dealing with as a First Responder Family. There was a lot of support my spouse could access through his employer. Living rurally, we struggled to access support for us as a family. That's what I knew we needed.
We chose to seek counselling, to do research about what works for families and with the support of family and friends we were able to get our family back to a place we were happy with.
I took this framework and these strategies and began to help people 1:1 and now I've turned it into a live online program so that I can help first responder families around the world.
My goal is to reach the isolated first responder families living rurally to meet them online in their home. My hope is to support and shed light on the darkness of living with ptsd as a First Responder Family.
The Three Pillars of The First Responder Family Online Support Program:
We believe that in helping people improve family connection, family wellness and family resiliency, they can manage the specific stressors of the First Responders Lifestyle.
Family Wellness
Learn strategies to manage the exhaustion that can come from ongoing stress and anxiety levels. Learn how to improve sleep in your family.
Family Connection
Learn how to improve the relationship with your spouse so you no longer feel lonely in your marriage or feel like opinionated roommates. Learn ways to communicate with your family during stressful times so that you can reduce the fighting that leads to disconnection. Learn how to support or respond to your family members if they feel cranky or miserable.
Family Resiliency
Learn strategies to keep the family together and work together to manage these unique stressors. Improve the ability of the family to adapt to situations as they arise. Learn how to come together as a team
"I really enjoyed the active reflection which I don't always allow myself to do. The learning was very good and beneficial. There are quite a few things we decided to implement. "
Detective
The Outline for The First Responder Family Online Support Program Is The Following:
Six Modules That Will Help You Learn the Three Pillars of the Program.
Here's How The Program Works:
Format:
This program is delivered live online, in the comfort of your own home- you can wear your pajamas and sit back with a cup of tea.
Live sessions allow interactive question and answers. It will be recorded for replay for those who are unable to attend live. You are invited to email in your questions to have answered during the live session, if you can not attend.
Replays:
Within 24 hours of the live session, access to the replay will be sent via email. You will have access to the video replay for 30 days.
Live Sessions:
One Hour once a week.
Community:
Weekly Live Support Group.
Discussions Within each Module.
Optional Access to a Private Closed Facebook Community Group.
"This was an excellent opportunity to talk about how we can better support each other and ourselves. Thank you so much for opening this space for us. "
Erin Ford
Detective
January 2020
January 19th Module One Released
January 22nd Live Session
January 26th Module Two Released
January 29th Live Session
February 2020
February 2nd Module Three Released
February 5th Live Session
February 9th Module Four Released
February 12th Live Session
February 16th Module Five Released
February 19th Live Session
February 23rd Module Six Released
February 26th Live Session
Pricing Options
Registration Opens October 2019
"I would highly recommend this program. It's good to have this information. Valuable insight, awareness and constructive information. We learned indicators to watch for. It opened active communication."
Detective
Register Here
Registration Opens October 4, 2019. 14 day money back guarantee, if you are unhappy with the program. If you have any questions or concerns please email [email protected]
Frequently Asked Questions
Families of Law Enforcement, Military, EMS, Corrections and Fire Careers.
You can work at your own pace on the modules. It takes approximately 18 hours to complete. You have six months to complete the modules with six weeks of weekly live support.
In order to access the content each week, you will need to log into a program with a username and password that you will create when you register. If you have logged in and watched my free video training, then you have everything you need to access the course material.
There are worksheets in Adobe Format that you can download. Adobe has a free program you can download to open the documents and there is a link to it inside the course platform.
You should have a basic understanding of logging into programs with a user name and password for this program.
Technically, these can be done on a desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphone. Keep in mind there are worksheets to print in each module and this is not always available from tablet/phones.
Within 24 hours of the live session, access to the replay will be sent via email. You will have access to the video replay for 30 days.
"I want to say thank you for stepping up and doing the work that needs to be done for families. I was diagnosed with PTSD and MDD. My family went through hell and back. I've thought a lot about how there needs to be education programs to support the entire family as a whole as opposed to just the first responder. So, thank you from the bottom of my heart. The work you do is brave and so necessary. "
