Crisis care that makes a real difference

To date, our team has worked in 24+ catastrophic disasters, crisis environments, and mass casualty incidents. We led the first State Emergency Response Team Mental Health and Wellness team after Hurricane Ian providing extensive direct disaster mental health relief, participating in and supporting emergency management exercises and EOCs, coordinating with FEMA IA/PA, with Public Agencies, private businesses and VOAD partners, establishing and supporting case management programs and providing relief and resilience workshops to survivors and community responders, including county hospital systems and the network of agencies responsible for county and municipal response and recovery.

Through their reactions and capacity to handle the turbulence of catastrophic incidents, survivors and governments showed us the gaps in the community response and recovery processes, where all are facing unsurmountable stressors with limited resources. Those gaps are the hidden "trenches" of the disaster. Capacity Path teams jump in those trenches, ready and responsive to the needs of the community, without letting logistical slowdowns get in the way of getting real help to real people on the ready. 

First responders, secondary responders, and survivors of all kinds benefit from the real practical and tactical support of community crisis stabilization techniques we are distinct for. Before we can rebuild, we have to reconnect all the disparate pieces to have a stable foundation to move forward. Rebuilding homes and highways is one thing. Rebuilding hearts, minds, memories and community networks is another... not to be neglected.

By providing realistic perspectives and applicable methodologies to overcome these massive obstacles to recovery, we help organizations and survivors deal with their personal and professional difficulties these circumstances bring up. We help restore balance and reinvigorate a passion for public safety.

Our long-term goals are to introduce advanced concepts in psychosocial support and crisis-informed care as a fundamental and essential component of government, emergency management, private-sector business continuity, and NGO aid programs. Trauma-informed care is important, and further to it, crisis-informed care is distinct, and important, especially as more disastrous incidents are on the rise nationwide. We aim to increase capacity for first responders and related professionals to go beyond compartmentalizing the trauma-effects of their challenging roles, into being icons of health and wellness.

Resilience is more than lip service-more than a buzz word for our times-  it has to be practical, tactical and accessible for all to mitigate the human risk factors of disasters and high-crisis incidents. It's as basic a human need as housing, food and water.  Basic Crisis Stabilization is the frontier edge of disaster relief, the place where we can make a real, and potentially measurable difference that moves the world towards being brighter and stronger together.