The International Critical Incident Stress Foundation, Inc. (ICISF) is a non-profit, open membership foundation dedicated to the prevention and mitigation of disabling stress. Please see below for information and an application for joining ICISF which is a valuable tool for keeping up with the latest advances in crisis intervention and CISM.

 Click here for a membership information/application sheet.

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Level One Membership
1. Membership in ICISF places the member in an international network of Critical Incident Stress Management teams, service providers, administrators, commercial and industrial services, researchers, and educators who function in the field of activity associated with critical incident stress and post trauma syndromes.
2. Members receive the quarterly ICISF newsletter LifeNet that provides important updates on Critical Incident Stress and psychological trauma.
3. Each member receives a certificate of membership, a wallet card, back issues of LifeNet (as available), updates on new procedures and current educational programs.
4. Members are eligible for a 15% tuition discount on all 4-day conferences sponsored by ICISF.
5. Routine critical incident stress consultation without charge.
6. Emergency critical incident stress consultation without charge.
7. Regular mailings announcing ICISF activities.

Level Two Membership
1. Members will receive all of the benefits associated with the Level One membership. PLUS
2. Level Two members will receive a subscription (concurrent with their membership) to the quarterly International Journal of Emergency Mental Health. This journal is the essence of a practitioner's journal. It combines the latest information on crisis intervention case studies, program development, research, literature reviews, book reviews, and in a section entitled "Emergency Mental Health Update" it reviews important research from other journals. This journal provides "one-step" updates in this ever-changing, rapidly growing field of crisis intervention and CISM. ICISF members are also strongly encouraged to submit papers to this journal for publication. We believe that only through such dissemination of your "lessons learned" and research can we continue to promote the growth of CISM.

Remember, membership in a CISM Team does not confer ICISF membership to the individual. Each individual must join to receive the benefits of membership. There is no Team, Group or Corporate category of membership.

The choice of either Level One membership or the Level Two membership is yours. Please contact Michelle Parks, ICISF Membership Coordinator  with further questions.

 Click here for a membership information/application sheet with new fee schedule effective November 1, 2005.

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If you are unable to download the form, please contact Michelle Parks to obtain a copy by fax or mail.