International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc.
Patty’s career in the helping professions began as an EMT-Intermediate/ EMS Instructor on a rural volunteer Ambulance Service in North Dakota. She was a founding member and team lead for the North Dakota CISM Team. In 1998, while pursuing her degree in Social Work, she became an ICISF Instructor and now facilitates a variety of ICISF courses throughout North America. In 2000, Patty immigrated to Canada and established a career providing training, consultation and support services for a number of Provincial and Federal Agencies, as well as many community based Indigenous CISM Teams. She is currently the Co-Lead for the Saskatchewan Health Authority Healthcare Worker Psychosocial Support Network/CISM Team and the Program Director and founding member of the Saskatchewan CISM Network, providing CISM supports, education and resources for Healthcare Workers, First Responders and Public Safety Personnel. In 2019 the Canadian Institute of Public Safety Research and Treatment named her as a Subject Matter Expert in the field of Critical Incident Stress Management.
Throughout her career she has been involved with a number of large scale events as a consultant and responder, and feels privileged to have been able to support the hundreds of front line workers in Health Care and Public Safety after they’ve experienced tragic events. In 2017 she was honored with the Premier’s Award for Excellence in the Public Service as recognition for her contributions to the Government of Saskatchewan La Loche Response Team following the schools shootings at the Dene High School in that northern community.
Patty is an ICISF Faculty Member, and has co-authored the Healing Ways: Group Crisis Interventions for Indigenous Peoples, providing culturally focused crisis intervention training for Indigenous People in North America. Although she has always supported people in some of their most difficult moments, it has been an honor to have found a career that was her life’s calling.
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