HEALTH & WELLNESS

Peer Support Team

Connected in Strength. The Northeast Colorado Regional Peer Support Team (NCRPST) provides confidential peer support for EMS providers, dispatchers, law enforcement, and other frontline workers across the nine-county region.

How Peer Support Works

Peer support is not a clinical intervention. It is a structured, confidential conversation between a trained peer and a colleague who has experienced something difficult. The peer supporter’s role is to listen, normalize, and, where appropriate, connect the person to additional resources.

Confidential

Peer support conversations are confidential. What you share with a peer supporter stays with them, within defined legal and ethical boundaries.

Voluntary

Peer support is never mandatory. A peer supporter may reach out after a difficult incident, but participation is always your choice.

Cross-Discipline

The NCRPST serves providers across disciplines. You do not need to be an EMS provider to access support, and peer supporters are trained to work across agency lines.

Not a Replacement for Treatment

Peer support is one part of a broader system of care. Peer supporters are trained to recognize when someone needs professional mental health support and to help connect them to it.

Team Members

The NCRPST is actively recruiting and training peer supporters across the region. Team member profiles will be published here as the team is formalized. If you are interested in joining, see the information below.

Team member profiles coming soon. The NCRPST is currently in development.

Become a Peer Supporter

Peer supporters are trained frontline workers who volunteer their time to support colleagues. Training is provided. If you work in EMS, fire, dispatch, law enforcement, or a related field in northeast Colorado and want to be part of the NCRPST, contact the team lead.

Who Can Join

Any active or retired frontline provider in the nine-county region. EMS, fire, dispatch, law enforcement, and hospital providers are all welcome.

Training Provided

All peer supporters complete structured training before being activated. Ongoing education and team support are part of the program.

Team Lead

Jolissa Asmus leads the NCRPST. Contact her through NCRETAC to learn more about joining or to request support for your agency.

Request Support or Get Involved

If you need to talk to someone, want to request peer support for your agency after a difficult incident, or are interested in joining the team, reach out through NCRETAC. All contacts are handled with discretion.

Contact: [email protected] | (970) 580-2668

If you are in crisis right now:

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline | Safe Call Now: 1-206-459-3020 | Colorado Crisis Services: 1-844-493-8255