Trainings Available

 Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention. 

 Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings and debriefings.

 The Hearing Distressing Voices Simulation is a groundbreaking, empathy-building experience which helps students, mental health professionals and first responders understand the challenges and strengths of people who experience psychosis. 

Three steps anyone can learn to save a life.  A suicide prevention program.

Stress First Aid (SFA) is a flexible set of tools used to care for stress reactions in firefighters and rescue personnel. 

Provocative and moving presentation by the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation, through the Everyone Goes Home® Program, that is designed to change the culture of accepting the loss of firefighters as a normal occurrence 

 In March 2004, a Firefighter Life Safety Summit was held to address the need for change within the fire service. At this summit, the 16 Firefighter Life Safety Initiatives were created. The Foundation’s Everyone Goes Home® program, which is based on these initiatives, strives to prevent firefighter line‑of‑duty deaths and injuries. 

Compelling presentation by the National Fallen Firefighter Foundation examines the root causes of LODDs and the role of Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge as it influences the end result. Many fire departments across the United States “LACK the Right Stuff” to prevent them from being on a path to a line of duty death, with Leadership, Accountability, Culture and Knowledge being the elements that need to be addressed and managed in those environments. Keep your department safe.

A course of the Everyone Goes Home® Program of the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation designed to assist in the reduction of LODDs utilizing a series of case studies. Each study will include what happened, why it happened, what could have avoided it, were safety measures available and used, and how can we prevent this in the future. The benefit of this program is the review of cultural change or adaptive challenge, rather than just enacting a technical fix, which in most cases does not work

Attributes of Leading (AoL) is designed to build more effective fire service leaders of all ranks. Highly interactive, real-world applicable, case study-based course best delivered to audiences of no more than 12 attendees. The program focuses on twelve essential qualities of effective leading: Competence, Constructive influence, Grit, Humility, Presence, Resilience, Self-mastery, Self-regulation, Stepping up, Trust, Vigilance, Wellness.

Modifiable presentation discussing various aspects of crisis intervention.

Modifiable presentation discussing various aspects of de-escalation.

Presentation regarding the differences between self-harm and suicidality.

Modifiable presentation discussing various aspects of medication administration, diversion, misuse/abuse, etc.

Modifiable presentation discussing important topics for professionals to understand the unique caveats of working with emergency responders.  

A training that reviews medical emergencies and how to recognize them in the field.  

Modifiable presentation that presents a mental health information, diagnoses, statistics and other relevant topics.