This course is designed as a follow up refresher for public safety professionals who have previously completed other peer support and crisis management courses.
Part 1: Advanced Peer Support Training
This training is designed to strengthen the existing skills of peer supporters by introducing them to new subjects. It is also designed to help peer supporters understand ways to maintain a healthy peer support team. In addition, this course will also cover an overview of the signs, symptoms, and treatment recommendations for post-traumatic stress and understanding the risks for suicide.
- Reinforce basic peer support skills
- Understand post traumatic stress
- Develop skills for dealing with suicidal peers
- Develop skills for handling difficult debriefings
- Review Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR)
Part 2: Group Crisis Intervention (CISM)
This course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services including pre and post incident crisis education, significant other support services, on-scene support services, crisis intervention for individuals, demobilizations after large-scale traumatic incidents, small group defusing’s and group interventions known as Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD).
- Types of critical incidents
- Critical incident stress
- Stress preventatives
- Demobilizations
- Defusing’s
- 7 phases of debriefings
