Mulberry Center Receives $20,000 Grant Helping Local First Responders
By: Casie Mason
Updated: February 18, 2013
First responders see things that most of us could not handle on a daily basis. Receiving mental health care is a priority for those firefighters, paramedics and police officers. Now the Tri-State is moving forward to help make mental health care easier for them. The Mulberry Center in Evansville helps people everyday. Just last year the center saw around twenty-three hundred patients dealing with problems ranging from depression to marriage counseling. But another group has started to seek the center's help, first responders.
It's hard to fathom the day-to-day of a police officer, fire fighter, and other first responders. They work in traumatic events constantly. So after seeing an increase in the need for therapy for many Tri-State first responders, the center applied for a twenty-thousand dollar grant through the Welbourn Foundation to help start the new first responders program, and they received it. "What that grant will do will enable me to have a little bit of dedicated time to work more closely with this program, to refine it, and make it even better," says Mulberry Center Staff Therapist Ralph Nichols.
Since the grant went into effect, Therapist Ralph Nichols has already met with three police officers, and hopes to begin a class room like service that will involve first responders and their families.
It's hard to fathom the day-to-day of a police officer, fire fighter, and other first responders. They work in traumatic events constantly. So after seeing an increase in the need for therapy for many Tri-State first responders, the center applied for a twenty-thousand dollar grant through the Welbourn Foundation to help start the new first responders program, and they received it. "What that grant will do will enable me to have a little bit of dedicated time to work more closely with this program, to refine it, and make it even better," says Mulberry Center Staff Therapist Ralph Nichols.
Since the grant went into effect, Therapist Ralph Nichols has already met with three police officers, and hopes to begin a class room like service that will involve first responders and their families.
