PA HB676

Creates the First Responder Resilience Grant Program within the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency to award competitive grants to first responder organizations for embedding resilience coaches who are licensed mental health providers

Grants cover personnel costs including salaries and overtime for resilience coaches who provide evidence-based tools such as peer mentoring, suicide prevention, stress reduction, integrative medicine, and support services for first responders and their families

Establishes a nonlapsing First Responder Resilience Grant Program Fund in the State Treasury funded through General Assembly appropriations, federal money, grants, and donations

Requires PEMA to begin accepting applications within 180 days of enactment, approve or deny applications within 60 days, and distribute grants on a first-come, first-served basis until funds are exhausted

Mandates annual reports to the Governor and legislative Appropriations Committees by September 1 each year detailing grant applications, awards, denials, and remaining fund balance