We hope you can utilize these helpful articles as this unprecedented worldwide pandemic enters its third month of lockdown. CISM skills are necessary now more than ever as healthcare workers and first responders struggle with compassion fatigue and burnout. Please continue to support each other and strengthen relationships.
- Critical Incident Stress Management offers help to front line workers in the pandemic https://www.wtrf.com/news/good-news/critical-incident-stress-management-offers-help-to-front-line-workers-in-the-pandemic/
- Senate passes bill ensuring LODD benefits for first responder virus deaths https://www.policeone.com/coronavirus-covid-19/articles/senate-passes-bill-ensuring-lodd-benefits-for-first-responder-virus-deaths-H8sYkrZm9NOJiBRw/
- The Thin Blue Line: Sacrifice remembered during National Police Week https://www.montrosepress.com/news/the-thin-blue-line-sacrifice-remembered-during-national-police-week/article_a9959686-9482-11ea-a039-3bdce024c7cb.html
- Faces of nursing in Anne Arundel: National Nurses Day celebrates heroes of the coronavirus pandemic https://www.capitalgazette.com/coronavirus/ac-cn-coronavirus-national-nurses-week-20200506-urh57xnjizcfdfhenwidqancmm-story.html
- DC chefs cook 15,000 meals for front-line workers and those in need https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/health/coronavirus/dc-chefs-cook-15000-meals-for-front-line-workers-and-those-in-need/65-8d976afe-4e98-46ed-bcb4-df6db999d40d
- Mental health centers offer help to health care workers responding to pandemic https://www.denverpost.com/2020/04/29/mental-health-care-doctors-nurse-first-responders-coronavirus-stress/
- Mattel releases new toys to honor workers on the front lines of the coronavirus battle https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mattel-thank-you-heroes-frontline-workers-action-figures/
- Stress in the Time of the Coronavirus  https://www.delmarvapublicradio.net/post/stress-time-coronavirus-dt-04-24-2020-part-two
- NYC’s Kissaki delivers over 800 meals to first responders battling Covid-19Â https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nycs-kissaki-delivers-over-800-meals-to-first-responders-battling-covid-19-301047065.html
- What It’s Like to Be a First Responder During COVID-19 https://www.dailysignal.com/2020/04/16/what-its-like-to-be-a-first-responder-during-covid-19/