The Critical
Incident Stress Management Team (CISM)
1-800-632-8000
The Critical
Incident Stress Management Team, a group of specifically trained professionals, assist emergency service personnel to deal
with the most stressful aspects of their occupation. Emergency service support persons (emergency medical technicians, paramedics,
law enforcement officers, firefighters, dispatchers, nurses and mental health professionals) comprise the CISM team.
The service
is confidential and participants can speak freely. This is not group therapy and not a critique of the event. During the session,
participants may describe their thoughts, actions and reactions to the stress event or participants may just listen.
CISM will assist the participants in understanding the thoughts,
emotions and behaviors that occurred during and after the incident. It is time devoted to helping the participants understand
how a powerful event has affected them 
