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Bring the Love Initiative:
Peer Support Training and Trauma Recovery

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Love Begins with Acknowledgment

What began as a lifeline for our volunteer firefighters is now a movement to heal a society in pain. 

The Bring the Love Initiative was created to support the mental health and resilience of those who run toward danger without pay or recognition—volunteer firefighters who often carry trauma alone. But trauma doesn’t stop with first responders. It runs through every part of our society, especially the lives of those most often ignored, erased, or targeted.

We stand beside Black and Indigenous communities, trans and queer people, immigrants, women, and the working class—those being systematically attacked, silenced, and isolated in this moment of crisis. We believe trauma is not just an individual experience, but a collective wound that demands collective care.

In partnership with the UCF Restores Program at the University of Central Florida, guided by the research of Dr. Clint Bowers, Bring the Love delivers evidence-based tools, immersive technology, and deep human compassion to those living with the invisible injuries of PTSD, chronic stress, and unresolved trauma. Our mission isn’t just treatment—it’s transformation. We are here to restore lives, rebuild connection, and reignite the power trauma tried to silence.

The Bring the Love Initiative is helping to build a more trauma-informed society across the Great Lakes Basin—one where mental health stigma is dismantled, and people are empowered to seek the help they deserve. A society that refuses to normalize harm, ignore pain, or stay silent about the burdens people carry. We serve both frontline responders and marginalized communities alike—offering real, human-centered support where it’s long been missing.

This is not charity.


This is reclamation.

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