Public Safety Chaplains
Today’s Chaplains see their position as an avenue into passionately serving their agencies and the communities in which they live. They offer the hand of God’s grace wherever needed. These men and women are “called”, they are “certain” and they are “committed”.
The challenge for our Chaplains is the emergency services community we grew up in (especially if you can remember back over the past 30-40 years), is no longer the agency of today. The days of advancement through longevity and personal relationships has been replaced by professional expectations and excellence at every turn. This equates to a new breed of emergency service Chaplain. He has taken on the dedication of excellence and training at a level never known prior to this generation.
The members of our community can now anticipate well trained and skilled department personnel to meet the tactical needs facing them, no matter the emergency. Whether that’s a fire, an act of violence or the common responses to
medical emergencies as they play out, the same expectations now exist.
Our emergency service providers are facing more violence, senseless actions and heartless criminal activity than ever before. They see more teen suicides and person to person trauma than any generation before them, yet they are under the microscope, expected to respond without warning and always with extreme excellence and professionalism.
The more recent years have brought a new awareness to each one in the emergency services world. We recognize the extent of each incident actually touches more than just the victim or the property. It so often slams directly into those surrounding the call. Who are these people: it may be the wife of an elderly man as he lies at her feet attempting to find his breath; a wife who faces the truth of her husbands 3rd DUII and he is going to jail; the family that watches as fire swallows their personal belongings; maybe its friends or neighbors that made the 911 call and now stand in shock, not knowing what to do or say.
When these events play out, police and fire departments all across this land are now dispatching well trained Chaplains to assist with the humanity surrounding these calls. Chaplains are now expected to move with excellence and skills gleaned through aggressive training.
Training breeds professionalism at all levels. Whether the department is a small rural agency or it serves a larger population base, meeting the needs of humanity with a skill set bathed in training is now the expectation.
What about Critical Incident Stress Management for department personnel? How about their private and personal spiritual needs? Yes, the well trained Chaplain is available to assist here as well. (These are very sensitive issues met only at the request of department personnel and not at the discretion or direction of the Chaplains themselves).
Today’s emergency service providers as well as the communities they serve, can anticipate the excellence of a well trained and dedicated Chaplain at all times.
The challenge for our Chaplains is the emergency services community we grew up in (especially if you can remember back over the past 30-40 years), is no longer the agency of today. The days of advancement through longevity and personal relationships has been replaced by professional expectations and excellence at every turn. This equates to a new breed of emergency service Chaplain. He has taken on the dedication of excellence and training at a level never known prior to this generation.
The members of our community can now anticipate well trained and skilled department personnel to meet the tactical needs facing them, no matter the emergency. Whether that’s a fire, an act of violence or the common responses to
medical emergencies as they play out, the same expectations now exist.
Our emergency service providers are facing more violence, senseless actions and heartless criminal activity than ever before. They see more teen suicides and person to person trauma than any generation before them, yet they are under the microscope, expected to respond without warning and always with extreme excellence and professionalism.
The more recent years have brought a new awareness to each one in the emergency services world. We recognize the extent of each incident actually touches more than just the victim or the property. It so often slams directly into those surrounding the call. Who are these people: it may be the wife of an elderly man as he lies at her feet attempting to find his breath; a wife who faces the truth of her husbands 3rd DUII and he is going to jail; the family that watches as fire swallows their personal belongings; maybe its friends or neighbors that made the 911 call and now stand in shock, not knowing what to do or say.
When these events play out, police and fire departments all across this land are now dispatching well trained Chaplains to assist with the humanity surrounding these calls. Chaplains are now expected to move with excellence and skills gleaned through aggressive training.
Training breeds professionalism at all levels. Whether the department is a small rural agency or it serves a larger population base, meeting the needs of humanity with a skill set bathed in training is now the expectation.
What about Critical Incident Stress Management for department personnel? How about their private and personal spiritual needs? Yes, the well trained Chaplain is available to assist here as well. (These are very sensitive issues met only at the request of department personnel and not at the discretion or direction of the Chaplains themselves).
Today’s emergency service providers as well as the communities they serve, can anticipate the excellence of a well trained and dedicated Chaplain at all times.