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One of my favorite firsthand values is Serious Fun! 🤹♀️ We do a LOT of serious work, so our teams took the opportunity for shenanigans during professional headshot day 😂 📷 #awkward #seriousfun #seriousmission #patientphotographer #bestplacestoworkinhealthcare2024

Serious Fun is one of our most important company values. firsthandians make sure to prioritize it year-round, but today is an especially fun day for our crew. Happy Halloween!

Meet James Kelleher, one of our amazing Health Council members! 👋 James is the Director of Community Operations at firsthand, an organization that is transforming care, support and access for people living with serious mental and physical health challenges. Thank you, James, for being a dedicated member of our council! #JaxChamberHealthCouncil #HealthCouncil #HealthcareJax #JaxChamber

Individuals with serious mental illness (SMI) face unique challenges—unfortunately, the current system often fails to meet their needs. Explore engagement strategies specific to the SMI population, the importance of tailored service delivery based on clinical conditions, and payers' increasing focus on effective solutions for SMI in recent years. Register now to save your spot on November 5th at 2:15pm. Seats are going quickly! https://hubs.li/Q02WhtGb0

“We want to make sure everyone who is living with a serious mental illness gets care.” For entrepreneurs building impact-creating startups, it’s a heartening reminder from a fellow entrepreneur that staying true to your company’s impact mission can drive your success. At our recent LIFT Health Equity cohort in-person gathering, VilCap alum Gregor Hoffman shared more about how keeping impact as his company’s north star helped shape its successful trajectory. Gregor, Co-Founder of 1DocWay, participated in a 2014 health equity program with Village Capital, ultimately being the top peer-selected company. 1DocWay was successfully acquired in 2015, and Gregor and his co-founder are now building a new company, firsthand: a peer-led model of supporting adults with serious mental illness. Together with the cohort, Gregor tackled questions ranging from considering an exit, building your team, finding a customer base, and working with investors. Gregor is one of many alumni who return as mentors and advisory board members to support the next generation of impact-creating entrepreneurs who go through VilCap programs around the world. If you are interested in mentoring or supporting our work in other ways, check out our Get Involved page: https://lnkd.in/gTQfrzsF

An abundance of gratitude to be able to offer support to our communities that may suffer from serious mental illness(SMI), mental health (MI), or suicide. I encourage anyone that would like to expand their knowledge about suicide and how to navigate through times of crisis to take this course. The more you know the more you can be apart of the solution 💯💪

Celebrating 2yrs at firsthand. Feeling thankful for this opportunity to be a support to a fantastic team working to change lives in our community.

Today was so much FUN! The TENNESSEE MENTAL HEALTH CONSUMERS' ASSOCIATION, INC.TENNESSEE sure put on an awesome regional conference at East Tennessee State University! It was such an incredible honor to get to share about what firsthand is doing in the community, as well as what recovery truly means to me with such an amazing group of overcomers, peers, and supporters. I love that we aren't afraid to 'Recover Out Loud' anymore and that we can find inspiration in each other. Thank you Jordan Young for the work you do highlighting the importance of lived experience and for allowing me to join today!

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It’s Global Peer Support Day! We're beyond grateful for our 150+ peer support specialists who turn personal hardship into hope every day. Michelle, one of the individuals we serve in Knoxville, TN, wrote a powerful poem that captures the heart of peer support—transforming pain into strength, survival into compassion. Every peer supporter has a story that inspires and guides others. This poem reminds us: the weights we carry can lift us—and others—higher. --------- Her Struggle Became Her Achievement: The Pain and Beauty of Duality By Michelle Lombardo Because she cried countless tears, she has empathy.  It is because she survived she is able to rescue.  Her trauma gives her credibility to advise others in crisis.  While she was sitting alone in a crowd, she learned to embrace the lonely.  Her longing to be included prevents her from leaving anyone out.  Because she was broken, she makes others feel whole. The tears she cried in the shower allowed her to smile while in public.  All the days she spent sick with illness, makes her embrace each day with appreciation to be alive. Because she was battered, she knows how to fight. What was previously selfish, has been transmuted into a benevolence she uses to inspire. As a result of great sorrow, she knows emphatically, she is unbreakable.  Her scars are a warning that she can withstand any attack and heal completely. The story she calls her own has the ability to resonate with so many.  Her experience calls demons out of the dark in order to banish them.  Her courage knows no limits because she is no longer bound by fear.  No one or nothing can take away the purpose she has to give.  As she sorts through the memories of chaos, she understands completely the feeling of peace. Great loss has brought great appreciation. She has so much to give because she has been through so much.  Peace came from all her struggles and joy is the gift for never giving up when the pain hurts the most. She flutters through life like a butterfly transformed because she once inched along the ground, terrified of being trampled. Now, she flies effortlessly while being noticed for her beauty.  She became the inspiration she needed when she was struggling!