Northern Illinois Critical Incident Stress Management Team

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Northern Illinois
Critical Incident Stress Management Team

Helping Those Who Help Others

Welcome!

The Northern Illinois Critical Incident Stress Management (NICISM) Team

is dedicated to providing immediate comprehensive crisis response interventions and pre-incident stress management education for emergency service personnel throughout the Chicagoland area. Our service area includes the following counties: Cook, DuPage, Grundy, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, Lake, McHenry and Will.

We strive to provide the highest standards of Critical Incident response to any emergency service person or group involved in a traumatic incident. Our crisis intervention services are free of charge and strictly confidential. LEARN MORE

About Our Team

The Northern Illinois Critical Incident Stress Management (NI-CISM) Team is an all-volunteer nonprofit organization made up of trained volunteers from the mental health and emergency professions. Peers from law enforcement, fire service, dispatch, emergency medical services and hospital emergency room staff are all represented on the team. LEARN MORE

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UPCOMING TRAINING

The Northern Illinois CISM Team is in the very early stages of planning a two-day Basic Training for Friday and Saturday, March 13 - 14, 2026. Please watch this space for further details as they become available.

Please also feel free to contact our Education Coordinator, Denise Tracy, to be included in our notification list. We will contact you by e-mail when the details of our next training are finalized.

We sincerely appreciate your interest and support.

2024
Northern Illinois CISM Team
Member of the Year