Law enforcement, fire service, corrections and emergency medical personnel are often exposed to traumatic events that can impact the work and personal life.

Post Trauma Resources has more than fifteen years of experience with public safety personnel.

Services include emergency response, trauma response program development and training, as well as fitness for duty examinations

Our law enforcement experience includes work with the following agencies:

• Lexington County Sheriff's Department
• Spartanburg County Sheriff's Department
• Charleston County Sheriff's Department
• City of Summerville
• City of Wausau (WI) Police Department
• City of Florence Police Department
• Horry County Sheriff’s Department
• North August Police Department
• City of Sumter Sheriff’s Department
• City of Columbia Police Department
• Richland County Sheriff’s Department
• South Carolina Highway Patrol
• South Carolina Department of Natural Resources
• State Law Enforcement Division
• S.C. Sheriff's Association
• S.C. Law Enforcement Officers Association
• S.C. Criminal Justice Academy (Series of nine workshops throughout S.C.)
• S.C. Highway Patrol (January, 1991)
  

Post Trauma Resources is nationally recognized for our work in corrections. We have worked with more than thirty states to develop and implement trauma response programs.

Our work has included:

• National Institute of Corrections –
  Technical Assistance grants in the Connecticut, Missouri, Alabama, Georgia, Virginia, Hawaii, Wisconsin, Delaware, Texas
• National Institute of Corrections/National Academy of Corrections – 
  The staff has served on the faculty of the following courses:
      Chronic and Traumatic Stress in the Correctional Environment
      Faculty, Death Row Management
• National Victim Center – 
  Office of Victims of Crime, Department of Justice grant, "Staff Victimization in Corrections", Montana, Alaska, Ohio, Wisconsin, Nebraska, Maine, Nevada, Ohio, Missouri (1997 - 2000).
• Development of trauma response programs in the following organizations:
     Georgia Department of Corrections
     Virginia Department of Corrections
     Texas Department of Corrections
     Hawaii Department of Corrections
     Wisconsin Department of Corrections
     Missouri Department of Corrections
     South Carolina Department of Corrections
     Florida Department of Corrections
     Delaware Department of Corrections
      Alabama Department of Corrections

Corrections Publications

         "The Aftermath: Treating Traumatic Stress is Crucial," Corrections Today, August, 1987.
          "Post-Trauma Programs: Essential for Good Morale," Corrections Today, August, 1989.

For more information, contact Post Trauma Resources.