Seminars and Training

A three-day certificate workshop on the essential group skills needed for Critical Incident Response. This workshop will also teach how to effectively manage Individuals in Crisis and how to provide peer support to emergency services workers.

This is a comprehensive one-day course which will help the trained individual develop proficiency in critical incident care as well as introduce the novice to the psychology behind crisis counseling.

This program provides insight into the effects of a Line of Duty Death for emergency services workers as well as helps agencies develop protocols for a Line of Duty Death.

This program explores the history and science behind traumatic events providing practical information and strategies for working with man-made and natural disasters.

This program helps to recognize the need for a crisis management plan in universities as well as teach the basic steps in the development and utilization of a plan. This program will also explore the nature of a crisis in a university and how to help the student body recover from a critical incident.

This program helps to recognize the need for a crisis management plan as well as teach the basic steps in the development and utilization of a plan.

This program explores the nature, signs, risk factors, symptoms and causes of Excited Delirium as well as provide strategies to avoid Sudden Custody Death Syndrome (SCDS)

This program is a basic introduction to the different classes, side effects, and proper treatment of psychotropic medications.

This program explores the nature, causes, and reactions of school violence and shootings and proposes possible action plans and strategies for avoiding those situations.

This program aims at building essential leadership and communication skills for emergency services workers.

This program is designed specifically for Emergency Services workers who work with man-made and natural disasters. This program will help the worker develop and maintain a sense of balance and resilience through the most difficult of situations.

This program is designed to identify the role of communication in crisis intervention, to understand communication techniques for establishing rapport, calming, and defusing, to describe strategies for working with mentally ill, developmentally disabled, hostile people and witnesses, to explain the effects of crises & trauma on officer health and to identify practices for healthy communication with self and others for stress inoculation.

This program is designed to provide hurricane/tornado workers with the necessary tools to work in hostile environments while ensuring their mental and physical well-being.

This program is designed to help emergency services workers and disaster mental health specialists to avoid the pitfalls and damaging effects of Vicarious Traumatization.

Designed to provide insight and understanding of the different types of stress in law enforcement culture from a systems perspectives emphasis. This course will provide practical information in providing crisis intervention services to law enforcement organizations and individual personnel in crisis.

We developed this class to help address the specific needs of men and women transitioning to, or back to, civilian law enforcement after serving in the military. Separately, each of these groups experiences high incidence of traumatic experiences; combining their experiences creates a special set of unique challenges. This seminar will prepare peer supporters, supervisors, and managers to recognize and assist with those challenges.