All Clear Foundation was recently featured on the award-winning series Advancements with Ted Danson. Advancements is an educational series that shines a light on important issues and topics impacting society today. It features state-of-the-art technologies and solutions dedicated to shaping, molding, and transforming our world. Aiming to create a new level of social awareness, Advancements invited All Clear Foundation to spotlight its solutions to the wellness challenges facing the Emergency Response community.
Every day, Emergency Responders are faced with challenging, dangerous, and draining situations that can result in increased levels of stress injury in the form of depression, anxiety, burnout, and even suicide. People and communities rely on Responders to provide a safety net, often without realizing how difficult the work can be physically and mentally.
Emergency Responders, including Health Care Workers, are experiencing record rates of personal suffering, which can follow them home to their families. More and more frequently, Responders are being called to situations involving violence, severe weather, tragedy, and loss. These occupational exposures can compound the impact of the daily stressors we all face such as inflation, childcare issues, personal health, and instability.
Responders are often viewed as superheroes, naturally equipped to do this work but they're not...they are humans just like everyone else and it is the human behind the badge, the uniform, the scrubs, and the headset who suffers.
All Clear Foundation is a national non-profit focused on supporting the overall wellbeing: mental, emotional, physical, and social of Responders and their families. Founded in 2019, the organization's mission is to improve the overall wellbeing and longevity of those who serve our communities in times of need. All Clear believes that healthy Emergency Responders contribute to healthier communities.
“Responders are not just on the front line; they are the front line. So, we wanted to create a foundation that could be able to have responders around the country, have full access to some of the best practices and tools that are developed throughout this country, by Responders for Responders”. – Randy Owen, Founder
To address the needs of the Response community, All Clear Foundation has created a comprehensive ecosystem that delivers Solutions focused on the spectrum of wellness. Through strategic partnerships, the Foundation has assembled free, vetted, evidenced-backed, and easily accessible Solutions that address the various impacts of the cumulative stress and trauma of Emergency Response work.
Empowering Emergency Responders with the knowledge and tools to cope with stressors in adaptive ways helps improve their wellbeing and life expectancy. All Clear Foundation believes in empowerment through knowledge and the normalization of the human responses to abnormal occupational exposures.
All Clear Foundation’s primary goal is to engage Responders by meeting them where they are. We all experience and manage stress in different ways. Some focus on the resulting physical and medical impacts while others focus on the social, emotional, or mental impacts so All Clear has created multiple portals for entry and exploration. Through its network of digital, hybrid, free, and educational resources, ACF works to eliminate the 3 major barriers to Responders and agencies reaching out for help: geographic, financial, and stigma.
All Clear Foundation offers a centralized hub of support resources for Emergency Responders and their families. Their Solutions include:
By providing access to the best practices and tools available and by collaborating with other Responder focused organizations doing great work in the field, All Clear Foundation is working to take care of those who take care of us.
To learn more about All Clear Foundation, please visit www.AllClearFoundation.org