The Rescuers Rescue Foundation has an ongoing mission to help rescuers develop the skills and understanding to effectively deal with the unique kinds of trauma and stress they are faced with. Victims and their families often receive appropriate attention and support through their tragedies, but rescuers are often left to deal with these experiences on their own. Rescuers are exposed to many tragedies on a daily basis. Too many rescuers carry these tragedies with them – the effect ripples into their family, friends, and also other victims they are sent to help. Anger, physical abuse, and alcoholism frequently appear within the homes of these rescuers.
The sole purpose of the Rescuers Rescue Foundation is to empower rescuers with the skills that they need to appropriately deal with the trauma that they are exposed to – so they can continue to carry out their duties while in a powerful, productive, healthy state of mind.
Traditional methods of treatment are often ineffective – within the infrastructure of emergency response it is often seen as weakness for rescuers to seek help. Rescuers have a brother/sisterhood that is very wary of “outsiders”, especially when they come in to talk about or deal with what they see and experience together. New models of treatment can help. The recent onslaught of terrorist attacks, natural disasters, and ongoing military action has exposed more and more rescuers to higher stress situations than normal. Rescuers Rescue Foundation is reaching out to aid the aftermath and its effects on it’s rescuers.
