Chiron has three service divisions:
1) Research and Development to gather, develop, and focus best practice resources specific to behavioral health and wellness support for our front line responders and their loved ones that maintain a “mind, body, heart, and soul” perspective, representing the most efficient, effective, and successful models of integrative resilience strategies.
2) Education and Outreach to disseminate these best practice findings in a Peer-focused, extremely practical, “hands-on” approach such that this knowledge can be readily brought back into public safety communities and shared to better serve others in need. Some of these programs are traditional classroom-style and/or online presentation formats. However, the majority focus on experiential, integrative approaches that involve dynamic participant involvement, including our Still Standing equine programs. We also provide and create multimedia resources for our continuing education programs in addition to print, audio, and video content in support of those we directly serve.
Each year Chiron personnel provide hundreds of hours of behavioral health and wellness presentations to emergency services personnel and their loved ones across the country; 94% of these participants rate Chiron’s programs as “Excellent.” Examples of comment cards as well as a running list of agencies served is located HERE. |
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3) Clinical Programs to directly serve those most in need. Chiron personnel provide thousands of hours of individual, group, and family peer support to first responders and their loved ones each year. Death of public safety officers, officer-involved shootings, mass casualty incidents, murder-suicides, fatal traffic collisions, child deaths, and other high-impact incidents along with the day-to-day wellness of those chronically exposed to trauma are the main focus of our interventions. Chiron’s mental health professionals, peers, and coaches also provide hundreds of hours of one-on-one, couple, and family interventions to public safety personnel and their loved ones requesting behavioral health support every year.
Chiron's Critical Incident Response Team (CIRT), also known as our "Go Team," responds nation-wide to support public safety personnel and their loved ones, most commonly after Line of Duty Deaths. Chiron's CIRT is typically activated as part of an Incident Management Team, on a standard two-week deployment. Most frequently we serve as a coordinating resource for Peer and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) support, and our most recent Chiron CIRT activations include the following Line of Duty Deaths and mass casualty incidents: the 2013 19-fatality Yarnell Hill Fire, the 2015 3-fatality Twisp River Fire; the 2015 Umpqua Community College mass casualty shooting in Roseburg, Oregon; the 2016 4-fatality Cal-Ore Life Flight fixed wing plane crash; the 2017 Las Vegas mass casualty shooting; the 2017 mass casualty Southern California mudslides; the 2017 Las Vegas mass shooting; the 2018 Mendocino Complex Fire; the 2018 Camp Fire; and Firestorm 2020, including the Almeda Fire that decimated the two towns literally across the road from our Ranch headquarters in Southern Oregon.
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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others. ~ Lewis Carroll |