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World Community Chaplains
 Become a World Community Chaplain
Become a WCC Relief Specialist
WCC's and Relief Specialists are invited to short trainings which prepare them to work with WCC at large disasters.
Receive individual mailings for opportunities to work and educational updates.
How Relief of Suffering is Handled
Determines the Capacity to Rebuild
World Community Chaplains offers effective pastoral care for people who have experienced disaster, crisis or war. The goal is to provide immediate relief and resources to promote individual progress and limit negative, post-trauma effects and (PTSD) Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. War, disaster and crisis are often seen as short lived events, but in reality they are long term, inflicting significant impact. How relief of suffering is handled determines the capacity to rebuild.
Triage and treatment must take place physically and mentally. Traumatic events change lives. It can be a well managed change. The price of relief and education is not too expensive if we take a closer look at unattended grief, PTSD and the effects on its victims, their families and entire communities.
Community Chaplains are trained in crisis intervention and post traumatic syndrome disorder, as well as US disaster practices within the structure of Homeland Security, FEMA and Red Cross. They are available for disaster victims and relief personnel, returning military servicemembers and their families, as well as general community support.
Disasters and acts of terror are on the rise. Large or small, all disasters have a big effect on individuals. Most people are in need of mental health relief after war, disaster or death. Emergency services personnel need appropriate professionals available for debriefing and to help with grief and reintegration. When people hurt, community social and economic development suffer.
In times of disaster, individual and mass events require the full attention of police, fire and emergency personnel. Whether there is one, or one hundred hurting people, they each have immediate needs and their families want to know where and how they are.
The "Comfort Zone" is a service during disaster to provide victims, emergency personnel and concerned family members a central location where they can provide and obtain information on the status and whereabouts of their loved one(s). Community Chaplains are on the scene and in touch with police, fire and coroner to connect families together whether living or dead. They take, call, and disseminate information to help locate, identify and reunite victims and their families, hopefully alive, but also if they are not. Community Chaplains offer family mitigation, as well as accompany the dead when recovered to the mortuary, help families through the identification process and the return of the remains of their loved ones.
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Be there when they need us. Help provide urgent care and sustaining resources to disaster victims, military personnel and their families.
On small and large disasters this greatly assists families and victims, as well as emergency service personnel. Finding loved ones and attending to grief is important to recovery.
Community Chaplains welcome home and support military servicemembers and help them adjust and attend to details at home. Also, families who have a servicemember overseas are in need of relief, respite and support. Special R&R activities are given to returning servicemembers and their families.
Military servicemembers are returning from the wars in need of reintegration and trauma management skills. Too many have already become homeless. They need support, resources, rehabilitation and specialized medical care. Families of the military are going through increasing stress and also need resources, respite and support.
We owe all servicemembers and their families the best of care. The costs are rising for continuous provision for the increasing social needs due to disasters and servicemembers whose return is unassisted.
World Community Chaplains is also available to schools, hospitals, businesses and the community at large, as well as individual disasters, such as single home fire, auto accident, etc., providing ongoing support and resources. Those with problems, disputes, life ending crises, can talk with someone who cares, is officially connected and proven credible.
Community Chaplains are a group of professional chaplains, ministers, child and crisis specialists and are backed-up by psychologists and psychiatrists. Training and preparation include Homeland Security, FEMA, and Red Cross guidelines and practices.
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