Critical Incident Stress Management - Region 6

Critical incident stress management (CISM) is an adaptive, short-term psychological helping-process that focuses solely on an immediate and identifiable problem. It can include pre-incident preparedness to acute crisis management to post-crisis follow-up. This training is provided for the Telecommunicators in the PSAP, providing education about CISM, getting closure, identifying a need for debriefing and awareness of the resources that are available,

The training will be provided by Fsgt Marvin "Buddy" Davis with the Virginia State Police. Fsgt Davis is a member of the CISM team with VSP and is the Area Commander for the Area 42, Martinsville office.