Responders for Pride

Responders for Pride Responders for PRIDE is dedicated to extending support to the LGBTQIA+ First Responder community.

We promote mental health, facilitate cultural change, & provide comprehensive assistance for the well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and first responder community.

Next Friday. ☕The Baltimore Coffee Collective Latte Art Throwdown is June 5 — and every dollar raised supports LGBTQ+ fi...
05/28/2026

Next Friday. ☕

The Baltimore Coffee Collective Latte Art Throwdown is June 5 — and every dollar raised supports LGBTQ+ first responders through Responders for Pride.

This is what community support looks like in practice. A local coffee collective seeing our mission and saying: we want to be part of this.

If you are in Baltimore next Thursday — come. It is free to hang, $10 to compete. Beverages and snacks provided. We are looking for volunteers to help run food and drinks, let us know if you can help.

Doors 6PM · Vent Coffee Roasters.

Swipe to see all 5 →The difference a liaison makes isn't policy. It's presence.When LGBTQ+ first responders know there's...
05/26/2026

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The difference a liaison makes isn't policy. It's presence.

When LGBTQ+ first responders know there's a trusted person inside the department — someone they can approach without it becoming a formal process — everything changes.

We have everything you need to propose and establish a liaison position in your department: sample policy, job description, program design guide, and direct support from our team.

All free. No catch. Just the infrastructure to make it happen.
🔗 Link https://www.respondersforpride.org/psliaison

Secondary trauma is real.When your first responder carries difficult calls home — the weight, the distance, the hypervig...
05/25/2026

Secondary trauma is real.

When your first responder carries difficult calls home — the weight, the distance, the hypervigilance that does not switch off at the door — you absorb some of that too. Shift after shift. Year after year.

It has a name. And there is support for it.

Our monthly Partner & Family Virtual Support Group meets every third Sunday. Free, confidential, facilitated. A space where first responder family members can talk to people who actually understand what this life is like.

🔗 Register at link https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gtHk5yn5TrqS_4-8EJ91fw #/registration

Limited run. No restock. No exceptions.The 2026 Responders for Pride fundraiser tee — a Maltese cross, a rainbow shield,...
05/22/2026

Limited run. No restock. No exceptions.

The 2026 Responders for Pride fundraiser tee — a Maltese cross, a rainbow shield, fire, law enforcement, and EMS standing together — is selling fast.

When this run is gone, it's gone for good.

Every purchase funds our programmes directly. Get yours before someone else does.
🔗 Respondersforpride.org/shop

The free workshop is live on YouTube right now.How to Build a Resilient First Responder Relationship — one hour, evidenc...
05/19/2026

The free workshop is live on YouTube right now.

How to Build a Resilient First Responder Relationship — one hour, evidence-based, and built specifically for the people who love first responders.

Delivered by Katie Bingner, MS, LCPC — a licensed counselor and law enforcement officer's partner who understands this life from both sides.
Includes a free downloadable guidebook.

No signup required. No cost. No catch.
🔗 Watch the workshop → https://youtu.be/X98frrjdw4M?si=Bme8dJF7md7rsy9F

05/17/2026

Nobody prepares you for what s*x crimes training actually does to you.

In Part 2 of our conversation with Christina Ellis — public safety officer and one of the most honest voices we have had on the pod — she talks about sitting through s*x crimes classes, what it triggered, and what nobody in the department was talking about afterward.

PTSI is real. The weight of what first responders are exposed to in training — not just on calls — is real.
This is the conversation the profession needs to be having.

🎙️ Full episode on our YouTube channel

📌 Save this and share it with someone in public safety who needs to hear it.

Tomorrow is our monthly Partner & Family Support Group.If you have been thinking about joining — tomorrow is the day.Fre...
05/16/2026

Tomorrow is our monthly Partner & Family Support Group.

If you have been thinking about joining — tomorrow is the day.

Free. Virtual. Confidential. Facilitated.
Every third Sunday of the month.

🔗 🔗 Register at link in bio — or send a DM or reply to this post and we will send you the link directly.

LGBTQ+ families explicitly welcome.

05/14/2026

Nobody prepares you for what s*x crimes training actually does to you.

In Part 2 of our conversation with Christina Ellis — public safety officer and one of the most honest voices we have had on the pod — she talks about sitting through s*x crimes classes, what it triggered, and what nobody in the department was talking about afterward.

PTSI is real. The weight of what first responders are exposed to in training — not just on calls — is real.
This is the conversation the profession needs to be having.

🎙️ Full episode on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJ8XDs_se1I&t=1s

📌 Save this and share it with someone in public safety who needs to hear it.

For the partners. The spouses. The families.The people who love first responders carry the weight of the job from the ot...
05/14/2026

For the partners. The spouses. The families.

The people who love first responders carry the weight of the job from the other side of it — the long shifts, the difficult calls, the person who comes home and does not always have words for what happened.
Most support programs were not built for you.

Ours was.

The RFP Partner & Family Virtual Support Group meets every third Sunday of the month. Free. Facilitated. Confidential.

Next meeting: Sunday, May 17th.

LGBTQ+ families explicitly welcome. All relationship structures. All backgrounds. No experience with therapy or support groups needed — just show up.

🔗 Link to register https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/gtHk5yn5TrqS_4-8EJ91fw #/registration

If you know someone who needs this — send this post to them. It might be exactly what they have been looking for.

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