Our people
A small, well-paid team of people touched by suicide and institutional harm, working alongside volunteers who want to help families through the hardest process of their lives.
The paid team
We keep our paid staff minimal, and we pay them well. Our team is drawn from people who have been touched by suicide or institutional harm:
The people working on these systems should know what it’s like to experience a failure of the system — and why it’s so important to get it right.
Sharing that history is always a person’s own choice.
Beyond Behind The 22
We don’t only hire people. We train them to run their own independent micro-businesses, so they can take their skills into the organizations that serve this community.
Learn advocacy, research, analytics, and Microsoft technologies by doing real work, on a schedule that can flex around grief and recovery.
We teach the business side too, so the skills you build belong to you and can go wherever you do.
Work inside organizations that serve veterans, service members, first responders, and their families, as someone who knows what failure feels like. The more of those people inside the system, the better it can get.
Volunteers
Our goal is to have retired first responders help with intake for families who have lost a loved one to suicide. Together, we can support the family through everything they’re entitled to.
If that isn’t happening, we help them advocate for the services that are supposed to be happening.
People who walk alongside someone through operational, policy, and workflow advocacy: the specific, unglamorous work of pushing a broken process to change. That kind of support doesn’t currently exist for this community. We intend to build it.
Volunteers are not lawyers, clinicians, or crisis responders, and they don’t give legal or medical advice. What a family shares, and with whom, is always their choice. If someone is in crisis, call or text 988, then press 1.
Want to be part of this? Tell us a little about yourself and how you’d like to help.
