Individual + Group CISM 3-Day Class

NCLEAP is again partnering with Wake Tech Community College to offer the Individual & Group Crisis Intervention (CISM) peer training course on November 27-29, 2017.  This specialized International Critical Incident Foundation (ICISF) combined course meets the basic requirements for Peer training, and should not be confused with the Post Critical Incident Seminar.

Course Description: This course presents a comprehensive, phase-sensitive, integrated, multi-component approach to crisis/disaster intervention. Small group role plays will allow participants to apply the techniques as they are learned. 

Training Location:  Public Safety Campus of Wake Tech Community College, 321 Chapanoke Road, Raleigh, NC  27603. 

Registration Fee:  Sworn ($0), Non-Sworn ($77.00)  There is NO registration fee for SWORN first responders (SWORN defined as Police / Corrections / Telecommunicators / Fire / EMS)  Other Civilian personnel, such as Chaplains or administrative staff, will be charged $77.00 per student.  Course registration fee for Civilian personnel will be collected on the first day of class.  Forms of acceptable payment include check (payable to "Wake Tech Community College"), or credit card (VISA only).  Pre-payment is not an option.  Please bring your registration fee to the first day of class.  A receipt will be provided at that time.

Sworn Credential Requirements:   Police, Corrections Officers & Telecommunicators, please be prepared to present your agency credentials.  A fee waiver letter is not required for Police, Corrections Officers or Telecommunicators with proper credentials.

Fee Waiver Letter for FIRE & EMS personnel: Wake Tech requires an original signed letter from your agency head in order to meet the requirements for registration fee waiver.  Please use the attached template, printed on your agency letterhead, with an original signature of your Chief/Director.  Provide one letter per agency, listing all students from that agency in attendance, on the first day of class in lieu of payment.

Registration Link:    http://lawenforcement.waketech.edu/  (scroll to bottom half of page)...

Registration Directions:  Search Course # 186438 or type in CISM, then click “Next” to proceed with Registration.  If you’ve taken classes via Wake Tech Public Safety online registration previously, complete steps for “Returning Student”.  If you have never taken a class via Wake Tech Public Safety Campus before, complete “New Student” registration process.  Sworn personnel may complete the waiver process for no registration fee.  If you are civilian and there is not a job title to match your position, please complete the “New Coordinator” registration.

Basic Training for Crisis Response Chaplains

EChap

Training Center

Durham, NC

Sat, Aug 12, 2017

9am-3pm

Basic Training for Crisis Response Chaplains is a 5-hour course designed to train the chaplain to work side-by-side with Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS personnel. In this training, you will learn how to care for citizens in crisis, especially those who have experienced the death of a loved one.

This training is designed specifically for chaplains who will serve directly with Law Enforcement, Fire and EMS agencies. Experienced chaplains are urged to take this course.

Please note, Basic Training for Crisis Response Chaplains is open to anyone. It is a good starting point for the layperson who senses a call to this type of ministry.

For more information, contact:
Ralph Thompson
e-mail: Ralph@EChap.org
cell: (919) 280-8908

This training event will be held:
Saturday, August 12, 2017
9am-3pm

Training Location:
Emergency Chaplains Training Center
3218 N. Roxboro Road | Durham, NC 27704

GROUP CRISIS INTERVENTION --JUNE 16-17, 2017

Emergency Chaplains is hosting ICISF Group Crisis Intervention Training, on Friday and Saturday, June 16-17, 2017.

Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, this ICISF Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services.

Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings, and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD).

What You Will Learn:

·        The spiritual, psychological, and physiological impact of traumatic stress.

·        The prevalence and cost of traumatic incidents.

·        OSHA’s post incident (CISM) response guidelines.

·        Means of integrating one’s Christian faith into crisis response intervention.

·        How to coordinate CISM intervention.

·        How to conduct debriefings and defusings.

Two-Day ICISF Course:  8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.,  14 Contact Hours

Location: EChap Office @ Braggtown Baptist Church | 3218 N. Roxboro Road | Durham, NC

Cost: $99 if registered by June 2, 2017 (after 6/2/17: $119)

25% discount available for First Responders, Chaplains, Clergy, Students and Retirees

Register online at www.EChap.org/training

Contact Chaplain Ralph Thompson if additional information is needed:

(919) 280-8908

Ralph@EChap.org

Banquet Time Again!

It's hard to believe but it's banquet time again!  Last year's banquet was a great success and we believe that this year will be even better. 

Our banquet this year is being held in the Grand Ballroom of the Sheraton Imperial at RTP on the evening of October 24th.  The banquet will be a ticketed event with our Table Hosts handling those tickets.  If you are interested in serving as a Table Host this year we would love to hear from you. 

Our Table Hosts will be responsible for filling their table of 10 and serving as an ambassador of Emergency Chaplains.  If you would consider partnering with us to raise awareness and funds please contact me today.  I would love to hear from you. (Table Hosts will also be considered for partial tables if we have enough space.)

If serving as a Table Host is not for you but you still want to attend the banquet, there are a couple of other ways that you can be a part of the celebration on October 24th:

• ·         Contact our office and we will connect you with a Table Host who has space at their table

• ·         We will also need several volunteers to help with greeting and hospitality.  If you would like to volunteer to help please let me know today.

Again this year, the cost of our banquet will be paid for by our Banquet Sponsors.  Would you consider being one of our sponsors this year?  Would you ask your church, civic club or a local business to also support our Hometown Heroes Banquet as we recognize our First Responders for their service and seek to raise awareness and support for the ministry of Emergency Chaplains?

Each Banquet Sponsor will be listed in our Banquet Program.  Gifts may be made in memory of, or in honor of a loved one.  Gift levels for our banquet this year are:

Bronze Level: Banquet Sponsorship of $50 or more

Silver Level: Banquet Sponsorship of $100 or more

Gold Level: Banquet Sponsorship of $200 or more

Platinum Level: Banquet Sponsorship of $500 or more

Diamond Level: Banquet Sponsorship of $1,000 or more

The ministry of Emergency Chaplains continues to grow.  Right now, we have 38 volunteers, serving 19 agencies, in 10 counties across central North Carolina.  Our chaplains now offer our services and care to over 2,000 First Responders.  We continue to press on toward our goal of having a chaplaincy presence in all 100 counties of our state.

Another goal that we have is to expand the services of our Crisis Response Team (CRT) here in Durham and establish CRTs in the other counties that we serve.  This is a vital part of our ministry where we serve side-by-side with our First Responders to care for citizens who are in crisis.

A goal that we have talked about often but still have not been able to establish is our Grief Ministry Team (GMT).  We envision dozens of volunteers taking part in this ministry to those in our community who are grieving the loss of a loved one.  Individual and group counseling, an annual memorial service and immediate care and assistance during a time of loss are just some of the ideas that we have for the GMT.

In order to establish these new ministries and maintain our current ministry growth we need to raise an additional $60,000 annually to pay salaries for one full-time and two part-time employees. 

Our goal is to partner with 200 new Monthly Comforters by the end of 2014.  (A Monthly Comforter is one who donates $25 or more each month.)

Would you consider becoming a Monthly Comforter to help us establish and expand these ministries?  If you are already one of our Monthly Comforters, would you encourage others that you know to join you in partnering with Emergency Chaplains in our efforts to turn those in crisis towards Christ?

Emergency Chaplains does not receive financial compensation or support from any of the agencies that we serve.  We are a faith based ministry dependent upon the support of God's people to carry out this ministry to First Responders and citizens in crisis.  Several of us, banded together by our desire to serve and love others in Jesus' Name, have the potential to touch thousands of lives each year through our service and our giving.  Please pray about how the Lord would have you partner with us!

Thanks for taking time to read this.  Thank you for your support and encouragement.  Together we are making a difference in the lives of many.  Blessings to you!  

Serving Jesus Together,

 

www.echap.org

e-mail: ralph@echap.org

Phone: 919-280-8908

Emergency Chaplains

PO Box 14762

Durham, NC  27709

HOMETOWN HERO: AMBER HALL

They are there when you need them.  A calm, cool, collected voice on the other end of the line.  911 Communicators are usually the first, First Responders in times of crisis...expertly accessing the situation, keeping callers focused and providing instruction…often in life-threatening situations.  It’s not an easy job and not everyone has what it takes.  Amber Hall has what it takes.  She is good at her job.  She is well-liked and respected by her peers.  But the reason she was nominated for the hometown hero award is for something she does above and beyond the call of duty.
 

In 2011, Amber Hall founded a non-profit named  “Lovie Central”.

Lovie Central loves on the children who live at the Urban Ministries shelter in downtown Durham.

For those of you who don't know....that's the Homeless Shelter.

Most of the kids at the shelter have lived all their lives in places where domestic violence, drugs,  and gang activity are an everyday fact of life.  Their trust has been violated.  Love and acceptance always has strings attached.

That's where Lovie Central comes in.

Twice a year, sometimes more, Lovie Central throws a party at the shelter.  Each child receives a stuffed animal that has a handmade security blanket, a hat, and even a scarf and other extras. They also give them care packages that includes personal hygiene products and even a toy or two.

Through Amber and others who participate in “Lovie Central” these young children learn that there are nice, giving, and loving people who care about them.

Amber gives abundantly of herself and her own resources to love on these kids.  She accepts donations but most of the money to pay for the work of Lovie Central comes straight out of her pocket.

She considers it a small price to pay to be able to go and love on children who so desperately need to know that they are loved.

It is for this reason that Emergency Chaplains is delighted to present the Hometown Hero Award to Amber Hall.  Thank you Amber for everything you are doing for our community and most of all for the unconditional love you show these children.

CELEBRATING OUR TELECOMMUNICATORS!

Each year, the second full week of April is dedicated to the men and women who serve as Public Safety Telecommunicators.  This year it’s April 13-19.  (In Durham, you can send letters of appreciation to Durham Emergency Communications Center, 505 West Chapel Hill Street, Durham, NC 27701.  If it is easier, you can e-mail notes to 911week@echap.org and we will forward those to the center.)

Telecommunicators probably have the least glamorous job in Public Safety.  They are seldom heard by the public and never seen.  Day after day they answer the phones and dispatch help with little fanfare.  The only time they get media coverage is when they make a mistake—and the news hounds jump on that like a dog on a ham bone.

The training process for a new telecommunicator can take up to a year and each month requires a full day of continuing education training.  It’s a lot to learn and a lot to keep up with.

It’s a very stressful job, too.  When answering incoming calls, a telecommunicator is often expected to be psychic—to take screamed, unintelligible words and somehow magically make a police car, ambulance or fire truck show up at a location that is unknown even to the caller.

Chaos is a word well known to every telecommunicator.  It happens most every day.  Sometimes several times in a day.  Some days it happens all day long.

Even a minor wreck on the interstate can cause chaos in the center.  Imagine that 50 people witness a wreck on I-40.  All 50 people call at one time.  25 of them are headed East.  25 are headed West.  None of them know exactly where they are and most don’t even know their own direction of travel. None of the callers currently on the line stopped to check on injuries.  When the ones who did stop and get a chance to call they can’t get through because all the lines are tied up with people telling the communicators what exit they are passing three miles down the road.

On one side of the room there might be several call takers trying desperately to get useful information simultaneously about the same event.  On the other side of the room there might be Police, Fire and EMS units yelling for more information about the location of the very same event the call takers are still working on.

It all happens fast.  One minute things are under control and the next minute it seems as if the world is coming to an end.  But it doesn’t.  The telecommunicators always get the job done and help always arrives.  They never get the thanks they deserve but we at Emergency Chaplains want to give a shout out to our Telecommunicators—our 9-1-1 Operators—they are the best in the world.

We love you guys!  Thanks for being the first in line of our First Responders and THANK YOU for always answering the calls and making sure that we get the help we need, when we need it and where we need it.

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HOMETOWN HERO STEVE KINCAID

Steve Kincaid received the Brantley Pearce Memorial Award at our banquet in November 2012.

Steve Kincaid joined the Stanton, VA Junior Rescue Squad when he was 16 years old. 

Steve Kincaid

On his very first call he was part of a crew that resuscitated a cardiac arrest patient.  He was hooked.  EMS was in his blood.

Joining Durham County EMS in 2002, Steve brought with him a great heart for his work that is noticed by his superiors and his peers.

Steve is one person that other medics like to see when they are working a difficult call.  No matter how stressful or crazy the situation might be, he is going to stay cool under pressure and make sure that every patient gets the best care possible. 

Another place where other medics like to see Steve is in the classroom.  When he teaches, he teaches from the heart.  He makes learning fun, interesting and almost effortless because of his enthusiasm.

It's easy to tell that Steve Kincaid loves being a paramedic but it is also easy to tell that he loves the people that he works with.  He makes it his personal business to be an encourager to those around him.

Like any other medic, Steve has seen his share of tough calls.  One time his crew was

VIDEO: STEVE KINCAID HOMETOWN HERO

dispatched to a child birth call and arrived to find the newborn in cardiac and respiratory arrest and the mother bleeding to death.  Steve doesn't take credit for doing anything special on that call but he names the others from A-Squad who were with him for their "dynamic, professional and intense teamwork that saved 2 lives that day."

While medics are skilled in taking care of their patients, they can also find themselves in situations where there is nothing they can do to help.  This can cause a great deal of emotional trauma for the family of a patient but it takes a toll on the medic, too.

Responding to reported cardiac arrest, Paramedic Kincaid arrived to horrified children in the front yard of the residence.  Entering the house he discovered a gruesome murder-suicide scene.  Realizing the magnitude of the situation Steve called for a chaplain to respond.

Steve said that as he watched two chaplains minister to those kids he suddenly realized how important it was to have chaplains who were available and willing to come on the scene and take care of the emotional and spiritual needs of those affected by tragedy.

Later, Steve wrote a note about the incident stating, "For EMS and other responders, it is good to know that we have the Chaplains on our team. It is good to know that we have back up, support and someone who understands.  I owe a great debt to the Chaplains for the work they did that day."

Emergency Chaplains is proud to honor Sr. Medic Steven Kincaid of Durham County EMS with the Brantley Pearce Memorial Award and to thank him for his commitment to providing quality Emergency Medical care...and for being a "Peace Maker" in our community.