Frontline Strong Together - Wayne State and The State of Michigan Team Up to Provide Needed Support Services for Front Line Workers

The Wayne State University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Health Sciences has teamed with the State of Michigan to develop a comprehensive behavioral and mental health training and support program for the state’s first responders and their families to address the stress they face in their duties protecting residents.The program, Frontline Strong Together, will be available electronically and in-person to first responders and their families in nearly all of Michigan’s 83 counties this year. The program is being developed and implemented with representatives of the Michigan Professional Firefighters Union, the Fraternal Order of Police, the Department of Corrections, paramedics and dispatchers.Craig's guest is Alireza Amirsadri, M.D., associate professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Wayne State University.