DAMARISCOTTA-NEWCASTLE AWARDS GRANT FOR CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT TRAINING
As part of the club’s Training/Tools Grant Program, which provides opportunities for Lincoln County residents to obtain or upgrade skills, a $4,000 grant has been awarded to allow 8 persons to attend a Critical Incident Stress Management Training.
Attendees include the Chief and 1 officer of the Damariscotta Police Department, 2 LCSW (one specializing in families, children, young adults and available to Lincoln Academy and one specializing in adults), the Community Navigator, a school nurse from AOS 93, the director of Waldoboro EMS and a Victims’ Advocate from the office of the District Attorney.
All of these folks deal with traumatic incidents as part of their jobs but then just resume normal duties with no debriefing or therapy resource available. Onc