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Helping Our First Responders, Military Personnel and their Families along with Our Community.

With experience in law enforcement and as a community and law enforcement chaplain as well as being married to a military veteran, I learned that our community of first responders, military personnel, and their families needed help in dealing with emotional injury caused by trauma and critical incidents they experience on a daily basis. I also saw a need in the community to prepare individuals in businesses, churches, and schools to better assist their people with traumatic situations. FrontLine First was founded to meet those needs in a practical, non-judgmental, welcoming, and loving manner. Our courses and training are designed to help those in our community cope with the past and present, and prepare for any future catastrophe.

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Our Mission

At Frontline First, we employ a faith based approach to help first responders, military personnel and their families recover from the emotional trauma they’ve suffered in their lives of service, train them to recognize and meet triggering events head-on, and thereby prevent future debilitating emotional trauma.

Core Values

Integrity

Using sound moral, honest and ethical principles as our foundation, FrontLine First will operate our ministry with the highest level of integrity.

Humility

At FrontLine First we know that we all are broken in some way and will conduct our ministry with humility, compassion, respect and acceptance.

Transparency

While protecting the confidentiality of those we serve; we will conduct our ministry business with complete transparency and open communication.

Faith

At FrontLine First we have faith in ourselves, faith in other people, faith in the future and faith in our God who is greater than what is visible in the world. Our faith allows us to choose to love and forgive realizing that it is much easier than hate.

Meet Our Founder

Founder & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Vickie Stanfill

Vickie Stanfill worked as a dispatcher and deputy sheriff in Contra Costa County and understands the pressures and stresses of first responders. She is also the wife of a retired Navy chief, daughter of a WWll Marine and grandmother of a Marine that fought in Afghanistan and has some insight into the toll that military life can have on our veterans and their families. Vickie has been an ordained minister for over 20 years and served on a church staff for 19 years as an Associate Pastor with responsibilities including directing Women’s Ministries, counseling, teaching and preaching and is a member of the American Association of Christian Counselors.

For almost 10 years Vickie has been a Law Enforcement Chaplain serving officers in over 10 different law enforcement agencies in the Sacramento area. As a law enforcement chaplain she has been instrumental in helping officers learn how to develop resiliency and cope with the many unfortunate situations they deal with on a daily basis. Vickie has facilitated and co-facilitated numerous Critical Incident Stress Debriefings (CISD) for Officer Involved Shootings, Line of Duty Deaths, Homicides and Suicides and is a member of the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation. Additionally, Vickie has also officiated at numerous officer’s weddings and funerals, including services at the Sacramento Valley National Cemetery for Veterans. Vickie is a member of U.S. First Responders Association.

As a Sr. Law Enforcement Chaplain, Vickie developed a Chaplain’s Ambassador program, involving officers as Ambassadors and liasons within their departments working closely with chaplains. Vickie individually recruited and trained over 120 Ambassadors from various law enforcement agencies, was instrumental in helping develop a program involving the spouses and has been one of the lead trainers and facilitators for new law enforcement and community chaplains.

With her prior law enforcement and pastoral background coupled with her years of experience as a law enforcement chaplain assisting officers and their families, Vickie is uniquely qualified in her role with FrontLine First.