Metro CISM Team
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Mission Statement
The Metro CISM Team provides research-informed peer support to emergency first responders in a 9-county area in the greater Twin Cities area of Minnesota. The goal is to build stress resistance in responders, leading to healthier lives, career preservation and stronger family and community relations. We promote resilience through direct support after critical incidents, pre-incident training and outreach services to the emergency services community.
About This Cause
The Metro Critical Incident Stress Management Team is comprised of firefighters, law enforcement officers, dispatchers, and emergency medical personnel (peers) who volunteer their time and energy to support other emergency services workers. The peers are supported by emergency services chaplains and acculturated licensed mental health professionals who also volunteer their time. All team members commit to monthly training and service review, obtain many hours of annual professional development and make themselves available for service delivery 24/7 to agencies in the 9-county greater Twin Cities Metro area. The Metro CISM Team offers a comprehensive set of interventions and services supported by the latest research on the biological/neurological and psychological impact of occupational stress in the emergency services. We are part of an internationally recognized movement to provide support to emergency responders. Direct peer-led services would include defusing and debriefings, one-to-one support, pre-incident awareness training for responders, and training for supervisors on how to support their personnel after critical incidents, a program developed by the team called "The First 90-Minutes©". Our services seek to build resistance to occupational stress (cumulative and acute), support the inherent resilience of first responders, and speed the recovery of personnel after critical incidents to ensure career longevity, promote occupational satisfaction, and support physical, emotional and interpersonal well-being. After delivery of interventions we obtain confidential data from participants about personal reactions to incidents and evaluation of our services. The aggregated data is never linked to any participant and is only used to provide feedback about our services and support research initiatives on the effects of critical incidents on first responders. Data practice laws in the State of Minnesota protect personnel using peer support services and no personally identifiable information is ever obtained from peers that are served. The Metro CISM Team is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in good standing with the Minnesota Attorney General Charities Division and the IRS. Our financial resources are directed to supporting interventions and outreach, such as printing handouts and training materials, sponsoring workshops and training in CISM methods for first responders, training of new team members and ongoing professional development for current team members. There are no paid staff at the present time.