Resources
A3- Avalanche Resilience Project
Our goal is to build resilient snow communities by providing a path of least resistance for those seeking assistance in the form of resources, grants, and a broader community network. The American Avalanche Association’s Resilience Project seeks to provide support and resources for A3 members impacted by mental health challenges associated with avalanches, avalanche work, or avalanche accidents.
While the Avalanche Resilience Project is centered around avalanche professionals and A3 members, we hope to provide a support network to the greater snow and avalanche community. The resources compiled here can be utilized to support you or someone you love.
Redside Foundation
Supporting the Health and Strength of the Professional Outdoor Guiding Community. Currently serving the guides of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming. If you are an ID, MT, or WY guide or know one needing mental health care or substance use disorder care, please call or text the Guide Helpline: (208)740-1192. Leave a message with your contact information, and our case manager/licensed counselor will respond within 48 hours. You are eligible for up to eight sessions with a provider in your area or via telehealth. Concerned outfitters/employers may also use this resource.
Cost-free and confidential
Mountain Muskox
Climbing Grief Fund
At the American Alpine Club, we know that climbing is an inherently dangerous undertaking. We feel the risk is outweighed by the strong expression of selfhood that comes from moving up rock, snow, and ice, but danger can lead to injury and loss. We hope that the resources compiled here support you or someone you love to build the conditions needed for better integration of trauma or grief experienced.
We hope that through increased visibility, education, and professional support concerning mental health in climbing, that we are creating a community better equipped to support one another on and off the rock and know when to seek professional care.
The Climbing Grief Fund (CGF) connects individuals to effective mental health professionals and resources and evolves the conversation around grief and trauma in the climbing, alpinism, and ski mountaineering community. CGF acts as a resource hub to equip the mental health of our climbing community.
The Whale Foundation
Wellness for Grand Canyon river guides, 877-449-4253
Guides, like everyone, face challenges in their personal lives and may not know where to turn. What sets them apart, is the unique lifestyle that may affect their access to supportive services. This is where The Whale Foundation steps in. If you are in need of assistance, know someone who is, or are wanting to lend support, you are in the right place.
Mountain Muskox
A community to support and care for those who have been impacted by loss or trauma in the mountains. Creating and fostering a healing community and global network that understands mountain trauma. Inspired by the protective circle of the muskoxen, our peer circles can provide healing safety, connection and support. We are a group of mountain community members coming together with professional facilitators to create a sustainable support network for those who have gone through a traumatic event in the mountains.
Canada based
Responder Alliance
The leading resource in stress resilience education for first responders and outdoor professionals.
Responder Alliance is a training center for resilience tools to prevent burnout and traumatic stress injury. Grounded in expert consensus and scientific validation, our curriculum is practical and effective for teams. We believe in a proactive approach, recommending all responders receive training to manage the risk of stress injury.
A3 Avalanche Resilience Grants
We understand costs associated with mental health services often prevent people from seeking treatment. A3 is pleased to provide grant funding to A3 Professional and Affiliate members pursuing mental health support. Funding is distributed annually, and must be utilized for individual therapy or group therapy. All Grant applications are confidential.
Financial Assistance
The High Fives Foundation
An Adaptive Sports Foundation with Heart
Our nonprofit organization is on a mission to provide hope and resources for athletes from all walks of life. We support our people and help them get back to their outdoor physical activity of choice from snowboarding and skiing to surfing and mountain biking and beyond. High Fives focuses on preventing life-changing injuries and provides resources and hope if they happen.
The High Fives Foundation offers three grant cycles in the calendar year.
Tri-County Health- San Miguel County
Tri-County Health Network has been engaged in the behavioral wellness of our community since our inception. TCHNetwork believes that engaging in community outreach and education programs, as well as providing direct behavioral health services in the communities we serve, is an essential aspect of reducing the stigma and discrimination associated with mental illness. By creating space for discussion and intervention around mental health and substance abuse, as well as removing barriers to care, our goal is to help all community members lead vibrant and healthy lives.
CB State of Mind- Crested Butte, Colorado
CB State of Mind is committed to making sure that our residents have access to mental health care and that means eliminating the barriers of cost, navigating the system, and connecting to the right service. If locating and paying for therapy is a challenge for you, CB State of Mind might be a resource for you. Our scholarships pay for up to 10 sessions with a partnering CBSOM therapist for people who are uninsured or under-insured.