Written by: Rick Carder (From a training conference on Crisis Debrifing)Critical Incident Stress Debriefing is provided through a qualified and certified team of care provides. Here are some of the training materials that a Crisis Care provider and offer you.
The Need –
90% of the United States citizens will be exposed to a traumatic event during their lifetime.
Suicide rates have been seen to increase as much as 63% in the first year after an earthquake.
Approximately 1 million persons each year become victims of violent crimes while at work.
16 persons die at work everyday.
A “critical incident” is any incident causing one to experience a threat to his or her own life and well-being, overwhelming feelings, stress reactions and an inability to function effectively:
- Vehicle Fatality
- Assaults/Homicides/ Robbery
- Explosion, Fire, Collapse
- Natural Disasters
There are costs for the employers and businesses –
Pursuit of medical, psychiatric and legal opinions
Protracted medical treatment for “unrelated” physical complaints
Use of illegal substance to self-medicate
Inability to concentrate at work
Hypervigilence and guarded behavior
Irritability with fellow workers and customers
Resignation and attrition of fellow employees
PTSD (Post Tramatic Stress Disorder)
Psalm 21:14 –
“I am poured out like water,
And all my bones are out of joint;
My heart is like wax;
It is melted within me.”
God’s Redemptive Power
Psalm 40:2-3
“He brought me up out of the pit of
destruction, out of the miry clay.
And he set my feet upon a rock making my
footsteps firm.
He put a new song in my mouth, a song of
Praise to our God;
Many will see and fear
And will trust in the Lord.”
LUKE 10
Meet the need:
- On its own turf
- At the point of greatest need
- In situations others avoid
- Across typical social boundaries
- Outside of usual reimbursement systems
- As Christ would
High School – Monroe High School, Monroe, Michigan
B.A. – Pastoral Ministries, Indiana Wesleyan University
M.A. – Ministerial Education, Indiana Wesleyan University
Ordination, 1987 – The International Center, Wesleyan Church
Training Special Education Advocate, Elkhart County, Indiana
Crisis Debriefing (American Bereavement Academy)
Critical Incident Crisis Management (International Crisis Care, Inc)
Volunteers of America, Jump Start Program Mentor at the Youth Home, DuPage County Volunteer for Juvenile Probation
Trained and Licensed Foster Parent
MST Training (DuPage County Probation Department)
Certification Police Chaplain (International Conference of Police Chaplains)
Citizens Police Certification, DuPage County Sheriff’s Department
Lincoln’s Challenge Mentoring (Illinois National Guard)
Seventeen Years – Pastoral Duties (Youth, Outreach, Pastoral)
Three Years – Probation Officer, Alternative Sanction, Elkhart County, Indiana
500 Hours – Mentor Volunteer, DuPage County Probation Department
500 Hours – Mentor Volunteer, Elkhart County, Indiana
Four Years – Court Appointed Special Advocate, Elkhart County, Indiana
Five Years – Licensed Foster Parent, DuPage County Probation
Compass Ministries: "When you loose your way!"
"Providing Specialized Chaplain Services and Assisting People Responding to Crisis."
Chaplain Services
- People are responding to crisis every day! It is estimated that someone is faced with a major crisis every 50 seconds in which they will require emergency assistance. It is estimated that nearly every person in America will be a victim of serious, life-threatening crime sometime in their life. Approximately one million people each year become victims of a violent crime while at work. (16 people die at work everyday.) Suicide rate have been known to increase as much as 63% in the first year after an earthquake. (Source: Crisis Care Network, Inc)
- This is why Compass Ministries is so vital. People need to turn to someone they can trust in help them through crisis. Partnering with local law enforcement and emergency response teams, Compass Ministries serves by providing Crisis Care Management and Stress Debriefing for first responders as well as the general community citizens. By serving as a Police Chaplain, Compass Ministries helps to bring emotional "First-Aid" to victims as well as emergency responders. Compass Ministries serves as a bridge to the community as a network of qualified counselors, agencies, organizations and professionals.
Sample of a seminar provided through compass.
Keeping Kids Safe Seminar Pastoral Care
- When crisis occurs, people are looking for help. They are trying to find direction when they loose their way because a "critical incident" has impacted their family such as suicide, vehicle fatality, natural disaster, crime or family incident.
- Pastoral care-giving provides people with basic assistance during a crisis. People are looking for a spiritual connection when crisis occurs. Compass Ministries provides assistance in Pastoral Discussions that serve as a ministry of presence. Pastoral care-giving helps by being present during a critical incident. Pastoral care-giving provides assistance in Grief Counseling and Funeral assistance. Pastoral care-giving offers help in Marriage and Family Consultation. Pastoral care-giving also helps by providing Community Referrals as needed.
Returning home from work, a blonde was shocked to find her house ransacked and burglarized. She telephoned the police at once and reported the crime. The police dispatcher broadcast the call on the radio, and a K-9 unit, patrolling nearby was the first to respond. As the K-9 officer approached the house with his dog on a leash, the blonde ran out on the porch, shuddered at the sight of the cop and his dog, then sat down on the steps. Putting her face in her hands, she moaned, "I come home to find all my possessions stolen. I call the police for help, and what do they do? They send me a BLIND policeman."
Funny as this story is, the fact is that every 50 seconds, someone is faced with a catastrophic crisis that will cause incredible stress. Incidents from momentary panic to significant horror will be experienced that will cause post traumatic stress disorder if untreated.
Crisis Evangelism is a ministry philosophy that provides compassionate care-giving techniques that help an individual exposed to trauma deal effectively with the stress of a situation. Through the power of prayer and carefully designed conversation, a person can experience renewed hope and recovery.
By utilizing the ministry of presence and carefully trained Crisis Diffusion Techniques through the "Mitchell Model: Critical Incident Stress Debriefing," people can find a renewed hope in Christ.
For more information and how to contact a Crisis Chaplain, Rev. Rick Carder
This page is devoted to the works and development of ideas and ministry applications of CRISIS EVANGELISM.
