Crisis Care Network and ICAS International Collaborate to Establish Global Best Practices Standard for Critical Incident Response Services
Grand Rapids, Michigan-based Crisis Care Network, Inc. and U.K.-based ICAS International have announced a collaborative partnership aimed at developing an internationally recognized critical incident response standard for businesses and organizations.
San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) November 19, 2004 -- Grand Rapids, Michigan-based
Crisis Care Network, Inc. and U.K.-based ICAS International have announced a
collaborative partnership aimed at developing an internationally recognized
critical incident response standard for businesses and organizations.
CCN and ICAS are working with a world-wide multidisciplinary team of
researchers and practitioners to define a unified best practices approach. The
new practice standards, in keeping with emerging empirically-driven guidelines,
will:
- reinforce resiliency,
- build on the organizational benefits
of traditional multi-component approaches to critical incident response, with
modifications as indicated by emerging empirical evidence, evolving best
practices, and group interventions
- assess the need for clinical care
-
support, where indicated, referral for empirically supported, short-term
professional interventions (e.g., trauma-focused cognitive behavioral therapy)
- move beyond a fixed “model-centric” approach by providing a framework for
continual quality improvement as research-led guidelines evolve over time
“This enables us to bring leading researchers and practitioners together
to develop a global best practices standard that EAPs can easily and effectively
integrate into existing services,” said Lyle Labardee, CEO of Crisis Care
Network. “We see this relationship with ICAS, the leading international provider
of behavioral risk management services, as one more step towards leading the
industry to a higher standard of care, a new level of enhanced customer service,
and a more rigorous credentialing requirement for those who deliver these
services.”
“This collaboration brings together two of the world's
preeminent providers of professional post critical incident services at a time
when global best practice standards need to be reviewed and strengthened,” said
Stephen Galliano, CEO of ICAS International. “Our sole aim is to maximize the
impact of safe and timely interventions for the benefit of our customer
organizations and their employees."
Both CCN and ICAS are presenting at
the EAPA conference in San Francisco, California, November 17-20, 2004.
About Crisis Care Network, Inc.
Crisis Care Network, Inc. is the
leading provider of critical incident response services, training, and resources
in North America. Having responded to over 15,000 requests for service, CCN
specializes in equipping EAP care managers and HR professionals with
business-focused critical incident services and is the principal supplier of
those services to the EAP industry.
About ICAS
Headquartered in
Milton Keynes, England, ICAS International is the leading international provider
of Behavioral Risk Management services and directly supports over one million
employees in over 400 companies worldwide. Clients include companies large and
small, from both the public and private sector.
MEDIA CONTACTS
Lyle
Labardee, CEO
Crisis Care Network
888-736-0911
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Stephen Galliano, CEO
ICAS International
011-44-1908285200
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Source : http://www.prweb.com/releases/2004/11/prweb180562.htm