The Code Green Campaign, aka Code Green is a first responder oriented mental health advocacy and education organization. Code Green serves all types of first responders, including firefighters, EMTs, paramedics, dispatchers, police, corrections, air medical, and search & rescue.
We take our name from combining the color of the mental health awareness ribbon, green, and from the "code alerts" that EMS uses to designate an emergency patient. For example, if someone is having a stroke or heart attack that needs rapid intervention, first responders will tell the hospital the patient is having a "code stroke" or "code STEMI". The idea is that Code Green is calling a code alert on the mental health of first responders.