The VCC Emergencies Ministry program supports a multicultural and multifaith response to emergencies and disasters.
Personal Support
Personal Support Workers assist affected people with information, emotional comfort, the provision of basic needs, linkage to social networks and referral services.
Outreach
Outreach is visiting people in their own homes during an emergency or disaster to offer information and gather details as to the needs of those individuals.
Emotional Spiritual Care
Emotional Spiritual Care is concerned with the ultimate search for meaning in times of crisis. Suffering is not what destroys people, rather “suffering without meaning” – Victor Frankl
Psychological First Aid
Psychological first aid can address emotional and spiritual wounds, it includes making contact, ensuring safety, communicating, comforting, reassuring and offering support.
Chaplaincy
Chaplains provide emotional and spiritual care, comfort and compassion to people affected by trauma as a result of an emergency or disaster.
