A warm welcome to the FoRCES of the EMMI Chaplains 

We are not a 24-hours crisis service. If this is an emergency crisis situation, please call 911 immediately.

Nous ne sommes pas un service de crise 24 heures sur 24. 

S'il s'agit d'une situation de crise d'urgence, veuillez appeler immédiatement le 911.

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F.R.C.E.S.(FoRCES)

First Responder Chaplain Emergency Support 

Aumônier premier intervenant soutien d'urgence 

Support for First Responders 

Resources and referrals to support your needs

First Responders’ listening counselling support  

Community Crisis Response 

&

FIRST AID

National Disaster Response Force

Search and Rescue is the search for and provision of aid to people in distress or imminent danger.  

S A R

Search and rescue (SAR) is the search for and provision of aid to people in distress or imminent danger. The general field of search and rescue includes many specialty sub-fields, typically determined by the type of terrain the search is conducted over. These include mountain rescue; ground search and rescue, including search and rescue dogs (such as K9 units); urban search and rescue in cities; combat search and rescue on the battlefield and air-sea rescue over water.

International Search and Rescue Advisory Group (INSARAG) is a UN organization that promotes the exchange of information between national urban search and rescue organizations. The duty to render assistance is covered by Article 98 of the UNCLOS.

Definitions

Search and rescue have many definitions, depending on the agency involved and the country in question.

Canadian Armed Forces and Canadian Coast Guard: "Search and Rescue comprises the search for, and provision of aid to, persons, ships or other craft which are, or are feared to be, in distress or imminent danger."

United States Coast Guard: "The use of available resources to assist persons or property in potential or actual distress."

United States Department of Defense: A search is "an operation normally coordinated by a Rescue Coordination Center (RCC) or rescue sub-center, using available personnel and facilities to locate persons in distress," and rescue is "an operation to retrieve persons in distress, provide for their initial medical or other needs, and deliver them to a place of safety."

Types of search and rescue

1. Ground (lowland) search and rescue

2. Mountain rescue

3. Cave rescue

4. Urban search and rescue

5. Combat search and rescue

6. Maritime search and rescue

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_and_rescue

Canada

Air and marine Search and rescue duties in Canada are the responsibility of the Canadian Forces and Canadian Coast Guard in conjunction with volunteer organizations. The Department of National Defence (DND) coordinates the coordinated search and rescue system. SAR operations are organized by Joint Rescue Coordination Centres (JRCC). The JRCC is staffed 24 hours daily by SAR coordinators from the Canadian Coast Guard and Canadian Forces. Authority for the provision of maritime SAR is assigned to the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans by the Canada Shipping Act and the Canada Oceans Act. Ground and inland water search and rescue (GSAR) is the responsibility of provinces and territories, with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and other police forces coordinating operations, often using volunteer GSAR teams operating in specific areas under provincial coordinating bodies. 

The Canada Shipping Act, most recently passed in 2001, is the framework document that funds international SAR activities.

Some municipalities and provinces have their own SAR units:

• Halton Regional Police Service Marine Unit - using marine craft on Lake Ontario

• Toronto Police Service Marine Unit - using marine craft on Lake Ontario

• Peel Regional Police Marine Unit - using marine craft on Lake Ontario and rivers in Peel Region

• Ontario Provincial Police Marine Unit - using marine craft on Great Lakes (excluding Lake Michigan) and Georgian Bay

• Durham Regional Police Marine Unit - using marine craft on Lake Ontario and lakes within Durham Region

• York Regional Police Marine Unit - using marine craft on Lake Simcoe

• Niagara Regional Police Marine Unit - using marine craft on Niagara River and Lake Ontario

• Vancouver Police Department - using marine craft on waterways around the City of Vancouver

• Heavy Urban Search and Rescue (Toronto) - using land base equipment

• Brockville Police Service Marine Patrol Unit - using a boat on the St. Lawrence River

There are also volunteer non-profit associations that conduct SAR in Canada: 

• British Columbia has 80 community-based volunteer Groups in B.C. providing GSAR services within assigned areas in conjunction with Police, ambulance and other agencies. The GSAR Groups are represented by the British Columbia Search and Rescue Association

• Alberta / BC Cave Rescue, Alberta/British Columbia

• Canada Task Force 2, Alberta

• Civil Air Search and Rescue Association

• ERT Search and Rescue

• Grande Prairie Technical Search and Rescue Association, Alberta

• Halifax Regional Search and Rescue - Nova Scotia

• North Shore Rescue, British Columbia.

• Pincher Creek Search and Rescue, Alberta

• Québec Secours, Québec.

• River Valley Ground Search and Rescue, New Brunswick

• Roberts Bank Lifeboat - Delta, BC

• Royal Canadian Marine Search and Rescue (RCM SAR)

• Sauvetage Bénévole Outaouais - Ottawa Volunteer Search and Rescue - Ottawa, ON and Gatineau, QC[

• Search and Rescue Manitoba (SARMAN), Manitoba

• Vancouver Urban Search and Rescue (Canadian Task Force One), British Columbia

• York Sunbury Search & Rescue - New Brunswick

Chaplain / Chapelain

EMMI Christian Catholic Apostolic

EMMI Benedictine Oblates 

Critical Incident Stress Management Chaplain Team

Today as never before, we should be ready to serve our God at any time, anywhere and under any situation. The Bible tells us to seek the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and all these things will be added to us. Is it righteous?

The EMMI Chaplains Associates International is for people working as Chaplains in hospitals, jails, and rehabilitation centers, performing funerals, visiting the needy, counselling, EMS, firefighters, Police, and Military.

For whom? If you are a Certified Chaplain with credentials of 26 weeks, you can join our associate ministry and participate in our selected Chaplains Associates Worldwide. 

We exist to provide support and encouragement to chaplains everywhere.

A chaplaincy is an approach to all of life as being in relation. We are not necessarily attached to a specific religious place, a temple, mosque, or church. Our Community Chaplains bridge the secular and the sacred in daily living and dying. 

EMMI  respects individuals of all faith traditions and spiritual expressions and serves equally without discrimination.

• You are very welcome to apply to join EMMI Chaplains; Email us!

• We are Catholic, but the association is an Interfaith Chaplaincy which outlines the relationship and responsibility of the EMMI Chaplaincy as we provide religious and spiritual care to the people of God or not.

• We offer opportunities for companionship, prayer and service. 

• We provide ways for you to connect with your colleagues in Chaplain ministry worldwide. 

• We are a non-profit organization.

• Membership is free.

Community Clergy Chaplains and Lay Chaplains

May God bless all of you, and please pray for the EMMI Chaplains Associates International.

F.R.C.E.S.

(FoRCES)

Community Crisis Response

 Chapelain / Chaplain / Capellan 

EMMI Christian Catholic Apostolic

EMMI Third Order of Benedictine Oblates & Third Order of Saint Francis