Public safety work involves predictable exposure to trauma. Personnel routinely encounter crisis, danger, and human suffering—often cumulatively across a career.

Historically, protections have relied on individuals to recognize distress and seek help, resulting in inconsistent safeguards shaped by local practice rather than occupational reality.

A national standard establishes a consistent governance baseline—embedding protective systems into routine operations and ensuring they activate predictably after qualifying exposure, without relying on self-disclosure.

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Behavioral health protection refers to structured, governance-based safeguards that automatically activate appropriate support in response to predictable occupational trauma exposure.

Unlike programmatic response services, behavioral health protection is embedded within organizational policy, oversight, and operational systems.

FRBH establishes the national standard defining what constitutes adequate behavioral health protection in public safety agencies.

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FRBH serves public safety systems and governing authorities responsible for organizational behavioral health protection.

Its work is institutional and governance-based in scope.

FRBH does not serve individual responders and does not provide clinical care or vendor services.

FRBH’s authority is limited to the development of national standards and the accreditation of documented and verified structural and operational conformance.

FRBH does not regulate individual clinicians, provide treatment, offer consulting services, or evaluate personnel performance.

Accreditation determinations are governance-based and organizational in scope.

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FRBH accreditation follows a structured, independent review process designed to ensure impartiality, governance integrity, and public trust.

1. An organization submits an application to FRBH.

2. FRBH authorizes an independent third-party evaluation to assess conformance to its published standards.

3. The evaluation includes documentation review and site-based verification of structural and operational alignment with FRBH standards.

4. Formal findings are submitted to FRBH.

5. The FRBH Standards & Accreditation Committee reviews the findings and advances a recommendation.

6. Final accreditation determinations are made exclusively by the FRBH Board of Directors.

7. Accreditation status is issued and publicly recognized by FRBH.

Accreditation determinations are based solely on documented and verified structural and operational conformance to published standards.

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FRBH translates established research, occupational safety doctrine, and governance principles into nationally consistent organizational standards for behavioral health protection in trauma-exposed work.

Standards are grounded in existing evidence and safety frameworks while remaining adaptable across agency structures and missions.

FRBH does not conduct original research. It defines, maintains, interprets, and independently verifies governance-level standards that operationalize existing evidence into structured protection systems.

As part of its charitable mission, FRBH expands equitable access to national accreditation for public safety organizations operating in trauma-exposed environments.

The FRBH Access Fund reduces financial barriers for eligible agencies, including rural, volunteer, tribal, and resource-constrained departments.

Access Fund support is structurally separated from accreditation review and does not influence standards, evaluations, or determinations.

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