In response to several disasters of major proportion in Kentucky in the late 1980s, the Kentucky Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services (DMHMRS) called a meeting of representatives from all key responding agencies in cases of crisis and disaster. The development of the Kentucky Post-Trauma Response Team (PTRT) was initiated in September 1990. The team's primary purpose was to mitigate the impact of crisis and disaster by providing support (via defusing, debriefing, training, consultation, etc.) to communities and emergency responders whose lives are impacted by the effects of trauma. In fiscal year 1994, DMHMRS, in conjunction with Bluegrass Regional Mental Health Mental Retardation Boards, Inc., employed a full-time staff person to work with the board of the Kentucky Community Crisis Response Team (KCCRT), formerly known as the PTRT. The 1996 General Assembly, through the passage of Senate Bill 112, established the Kentucky Community Crisis Response Board (KCCRB) as a separate administrative body of state government. Governor appointed the members of the Board in July 1996. The 1998 General Assembly, through the passage of House Bill 356, transferred the Office of the Kentucky Community Crisis Response to the Department of Military Affairs and attached it directly under the Adjutant General to provide administrative services for the KCCRB. KCCRB maintains a multi-disciplinary, dynamically trained team of professionals, para-professionals and emergency service workers throughout the commonwealth, known as the Kentucky Community Crisis Response Team (KCCRT). Members of this team are from a variety of disciplines and volunteer their time to assist peers who encounter a critical incident.