Faith, Force, & Family – A Conversation with Warren Police Department Chaplains

And Chaplain Tracy, you're an approved instructor for the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation.

Yes.

Talk a little bit about that.

Okay.

So, and this is one of our big training, even as our peer support team, that is critical incident stress management.

So that's our CISM training.

That is... that is a training that equips people to go out and work with what we call with our individuals or what we do is our group, uh, our group debriefing.

So, um, and a little bit about that as well is I've been, uh, crisis, uh, intervention since, uh, over 10 years working with other organizations and going to natural disasters and manmade disasters across the country.

Um, And so what that helps you do is that it helps you learn how to work with people to process the traumas that they have experienced to help mitigate PTSD and other mental health issues in the long run.

So it's a very important training that not only our chaplains, but as officers that are on our peer support team do.

It's great to have that resource in our department.

Absolutely.

That expertise.

And for both of you, I mean, we're past our time.

I mean, time has just flown here.

And I tell you, I was looking forward to this interview.

And I tell you, I truly enjoyed this.

I had a great time talking with you both.

And as we close it out, what message do you both have for both? our officers within the department, as well as those in the community.

You can make the difference,

and the difference starts with you.

The choice is yours.

Are you willing to be better? If so, give us a call at the Warren Police Department so you can be part of the Warren chaplain team.

Well, for me, I would like to just, you know, for our officers and community is just knowing that we're here for you.

We're not here to change you.