Fargo first responders, victim advocates help the traumatized, but who helps them with their trauma?

Fargo first responders, victim advocates help the traumatized, but who helps them with their trauma?

FARGO — Victim advocates, law enforcement and others who hear about traumatic events as part of their daily work may start to take on that trauma indirectly, experts say. The Fargo Rape and Abuse Crisis Center, Fargo Police Department and other local agencies have in recent years identified that occupational hazard and tried to find ways to help their employees through day-to-day secondary traumatic stress, sometimes called vicarious or secondar…