Support Resources
Suicide
Dial 911 or go to your nearest emergency room
24/7 National Suicide Prevention Life:
1-888-273-TALK [8255] [press "1" if you are a veteran]
Violence
National Domestic Violence Hotline at 1-800-799-SAFE [7233]
Drug/Alcohol/Substance 12-Step Programs
- AA Alcoholics Anonymous - https://lacoaa.org/
- NA Narcotics Anonymous - https://www.norcalna.org | https://todayna.org/todaynawp/
- CA Cannabis Anonymous - https://marijuana-anonymous.org/find-a-meeting/
Family Support
- Al-Anon https://al-anon.ab.ca/
- Alateen al-anon.alateen.org.
- Codependents Anonymous - CODA.org
- ACOA Adult Children of Alcoholics https://www.socalaca.org/
- https://www.acasfbayarea.org/
- The National Child Traumatic Stress Network - https://www.nctsn.org
- NAMI: National Alliance on Mental Illness [Improving how people live with mental illness of their loved ones]. https://www.nami.org
- The Gottman Website [Relationship Help/Dating/Parenting/same sex couples & research] - https://www.gottman.com/about/the-gottman-method
Book Resources
- The Body Keeps the Score; van der Kolk, 2012
- Jacobson, E. (1938). Progressive relaxation (2nd ed.). Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press.
- Badenoch, B. (2008). Being a Brain-Wise Therapist: A Practical Guide to Interpersonal Neurobiology (Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology). W. W. Norton.
Additional For First Responders
- First Responder Support Network FRSN
- FRSN West Coast Trauma Retreat - https://www.frsn.org/west-coast-post-trauma-retreat.html
- Contact FRSN - https://www.frsn.org/contact.html
- Significant Others & Spouses Retreat SOS - https://www.frsn.org/significant-others-and-spouses.html
- Kirschman, E. (2021). I love a firefighter: What the family needs to know (2nd ed.). The Guilford Press, a division of Guilford Publications.
- Kirschman, E. (2007). I love a cop: What police families need to know: What families need to know (Revised edition. ed.). Guilford Press
- Gilmartin, K. M. (2002). Emotional survival for law enforcement. Tuscan, AZ: E-S Press.
- Bentz et al, (2021) Crockford. L. Chapter -9 ‘The Lifeworlds To Deathworlds of First Responders: Becoming a Stranger to Oneself and Others’ DeGruyter – Academic publishing Berlin Germany
Publications
- Fay, J., Kamena, M. D., Benner, A., Buscho, A., & Nagle, D. (2018). Emergency responder exhaustion syndrome (ERES): A perspective on stress, coping and treatment in the emergency responder milieu. Retrieved from https://www.scribd.com/document/21992797/Emergency-Responder-Exhaustion-Syndrome-5-1-06
- Crockford, L. (2019). A Life World Inquiry into First Responders' Experience of Trauma While in the
- Course of Duty
- Video Links Cognitive Processing Therapy For Post- Traumatic Stress Disorder - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOZEMdwU9Ec
- Dr. Crockfords Interview by Dr. David Haddad - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OsRA9TVRjA0
