Resources for Forming a Team
The Crisis Response (CISM) Team:
General Guidelines for Team Development
| STEP 1: | Identify the need for the crisis response (CISM) team. Based upon identified needs, a rationale for the team's existence should both pragmatically and rhetorically emerge. |
| STEP 2: | Clearly state the goals of the crisis response team. Clearly state the constituency to be served by the team. |
| STEP 3: | Delineate guidelines for team membership and the specific roles to be performed.
- Administrative structure
- Dispatching functions
- Response functions, listing mental health providers' roles
vis-à-vis the use of paraprofessionals (if applicable)
- Clinical mental health oversight / supervision
- Team member selection criteria
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| STEP 4: | Determine how the team will be legally constituted. |
| STEP 5: | Determine how the team will be funded. |
| STEP 6: | Obtain legal counsel to operationally define issues such as malpractice, standards of care, confidentiality, "good Samaritan" practices, necessary liability insurance coverage, etcetera. |
| STEP 7: | Determine what criteria and mechanisms will be used to activate the team. Determine what backup systems will be used in the case of a mass disaster or widespread communication failure. |
| STEP 8: | Determine what specific crisis intervention techniques will be used by the team (For example: defusing, CISD, individual crisis counseling, etc.) |
| STEP 9: | Determine what criteria and mechanisms will be used to deactivate the team. |
| STEP 10: | Stipulate guidelines and procedures for follow-up for team members after a crisis response. |
| STEP 11: | Make arrangements for ongoing "in-service" training. |
| STEP 12: | Create a clear, practical operating manual which contains policies and procedures and which addresses all of the aforementioned issues. |
Excerpt from "Critical Incident Stress Management", Second Edition, Everly & Mitchell
Available from Chevron Publishing www.chevronpublishing.com
Team Information Form This version of the form is in MS Word [.doc] format. You may download this version of the form, fill it out in MS Word and email the modified file back to ICISF.
 Team Registry Packet
FOR ADDITIONAL ASSISTANCE AND SAMPLES OF TEAM OPERATIONAL PROCEDURES, SAMPLE APPLICATIONS, ETC, CONTACT THE HOTLINE TEAM COORDINATOR:
Danielle Dunn at danielle@icisf.org
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