FAQ

This has been a priority since day one. Our founder, Laura McGladrey, is a professor and clinician at the Stress Trauma Adversity Research and Treatment Center in Colorado; research is woven into everything we do.

Most of the studies into efficacy of our materials are currently ongoing or awaiting publication. The most recent list can be found on our Resource Hub, and we’ll keep adding to it as publications are finalized.

That’s great, we’re here to help. Starting a Resilience Team is almost always our recommendation for best results. You can do so via Self Support using resources from our website, but to avoid reinventing the wheel, we recommend new teams partner with us for Full Support. That will get you everything you need to manage risk of stress injury going forward.

Excellent question - here’s a bit more info on our courses to help you decide.

Stress Injury Awareness for the Individual - this is a great place to start. Many teams assign this course to all members as part of their risk management.

Stress Injury Awareness for the Team - this course is for planning and preventing team stress injury. Recommended for leadership and Resilience Teams.

Psychological First Response for Rescue - learn to assess and care for patients experiencing trauma. Recommended for anyone providing care to patients/family.

Incident Support for Traumatic Stress - learn how to appraise exposure to traumatic stress, and what to do after exposure occurs. Recommended for leadership and Resilience Teams.

Thank you - our small team truly appreciates any and all support. Feel free to support us via tax-deductible donation, and keep an eye on our Jobs page for opportunities.

We offer trainings via online courses, virtual, and in person trainings. You can find details on our training opportunities here.

To make best use of our time, we typically ask that teams complete our online training on a topic before we come out for custom training. That way we can use our time together to build on a foundation and discuss specifics for your team’s needs.

That’s wonderful! The world needs more experts who really understand the challenges of Austere work and rescue. Due to Laura’s busy work and training schedule, she’s not able to meet with students one on one as much as she’d like to, however, she does host frequent student interest panels and discussions in order to allow students to learn from each other and other experts in the industry.

Please contact us and we’ll let you know when she’ll be offering one in the near future.

Responder Alliance is a prevention-focused organization, but we can point you in the right direction. We recommend treating this with the care you would give to any other injury.

If you’re stress injured (staying in the orange or red for more than a couple weeks) you will really benefit from a clinician who speaks your language. A couple resources worth checking out are S.O.A.R. and the Climbing Grief Fund.

If you were injured at work (or volunteering) and your EAP isn’t offering meaningful support, it may be worth having your provider join our Clinicians Hub. Learn more about employer-sponsored support here.

Responder Alliance does not offer direct support for critical incidents. Our work focuses on prevention, but our Incident Support for Traumatic Stress training course offers guidance for follow-up.

If your team is stress injured, we recommend bringing in a clinician who speaks your language and is trained to help. If your EAP/usual provider isn’t familiar with this type of injury, consider a team membership to bring them into our Clinicians Hub.

We never want finances to prevent individuals who need help from accessing it.

If your organization’s leadership has funding but is opposed to using it for stress injury prevention, let us know and we’ll help you make a strong case.

If the money just isn’t there, contact us and we’ll do what we can to help.

We’re in the process of launching the Responder Alliance Foundation to support teams who don’t have funding. To support this initiative, you can make a tax deductible donation here.