| Gary
Evans
- Founder
and CEO of C.A.L.M., Inc.
- State
Police and Fire Chaplain
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Chp. Gary Evans has been in
the ministry since 1978 and received his ministerial
ordination in 1984. He has served in various
senior, associate, assistant, and interim pastorates
as well as providing pastoral counseling. In
1994, Chp.. Evans additionally received ecclesiastical
endorsement as an emergency services chaplain.
Dr. Evans holds respectively a Bachelor's Degree,
a Masters Degree, a Ministerial Diploma, and
a Doctor of Letters reflective of his work over
many years in education, ministry, and community
service as an emergency services chaplain. He
has received senior certification as a police
chaplain; basic and advanced group Critical
Incident Stress Management training; basic and
advanced Pastoral Crisis Intervention training;
Individual Crisis Intervention/Peer Support
training; Pastoral and Individual Crisis Interventions
instructor certificates; and death notification
instructor certification, and CISM: Strategic
Planning training.
Mr. Evans has earned the Board Certified Expert
in Traumatic Stress - Diplomate and the Certification
in Acute Stress Management as well as the Certified
Traumatic Stress Specialist designation. He
has also been certified as a Community Emergency
Response Team Trainer and Program Manager.
Following the September 11, 2001 attacks on
the United States and the flight 587 crash in
New York on November 12, 2001, Rev. Evans was
called to join the American Airlines Crisis
Management Team at JFK International Airport
to conduct group and individual crisis interventions
for pilots and flight crews. He has also been
deployed to Louisiana and Mississippi to provide
Critical Incident Stress Management services
in the wake of the Hurricane Katrina disaster
and has provided CISM training to pastors and
laity in the Gulf Region.
Mr. Evans is married and has three children.
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Workshops, Presentations
and Seminar Topics
CISM: Pastoral Crisis Intervention
Pastoral Crisis Intervention may be
thought of as the combination of faith-based resources
with the traditional techniques of crisis intervention.
This intervention represents a powerful addition to
traditional community and organizational psychological
support resources. The purpose of this workshop is to
assist the participants in learning how pastoral interventions
and traditional psychological crisis interventions may
be effectively integrated. Chaplains, pastoral counselors,
mental health professionals, ministers, and anyone interested
in the use of faith-based resources in healing should
find this course of interest. (14 contact hours; 1.4
General CEUs from UMBC).
Topics include:
- Psychological Crisis
- Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
- Applications of Pastoral Crisis Intervention
- Pastoral Crisis Assessment
- The Crisis of Faith
- Psychological triaging
- Common Psychological Reactions
- Mechanisms of Pastoral Crisis Intervention
- The Role of Religion
- Practice in Pastoral Crisis Intervention
- Most Challenging Applications
- Self Care
- Defining, Understanding and Treating the Most Common
Mental Health Disorders that Affect Children's Functioning.
CISM: Assisting Individuals In Crisis
Crisis intervention is NOT psychotherapy,
rather it is a specialized acute emergency mental health
intervention which requires specialized training. As
physical first-aid is to surgery, crisis intervention
is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes
called emotional first-aid. Crisis interventions
are typically done individually (one-on-one) or in groups.
This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals
of, and a specific protocol for, individual intervention.
The audience for this class includes both emergency
services, military, and business/industrial peer support
personnel without formal training in mental health,
as well as mental health professionals, who desire to
increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one)
crisis intervention. Learn how to give emotional "first
aid" to people in crisis using a variety of crisis
communication techniques including the SAFER-R and Diamond
models along with an important Problem Solving technique
to empower victims with tools for self help. (14 contact
hours; 1.4 General CEUs from UMBC)
Following
is a partial list of organizations with whom Gary Evans
has interviewed, consulted or trained:
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New Jersey Community
Resource Center
Calvary Chapels
Valley Forge Christian College
Southern New England District - Assemblies of
God
Worldwide Law Enforcement Group
Gloucester County Police Academy
New Jersey CISM Team
Law Enforcement Chaplaincy of Napa, CA
Phoenix Project USA
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Disaster
Response
Pastors' Resource Council of Louisiana
Northside Community Church of Atlanta
American Airlines
Ferguson Enterprises Inc.
Numerous Police, Fire and EMS agencies
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