Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) 

Car accidents, fires, accidents in the workplace and untimely deaths  are only a few of the increasing number of traumatic events in a person's or organization's life and yet we are never really prepared for these crises and disasters (it’s not going to happen to me) nor, more importantly, are we always conscious of the effects of such events can have on an individual or an organization.   If issues are not addressed they can have significant long term, debilitating consequences.   The need for effective crisis response capabilities becomes obvious. Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) represents a powerful, yet cost- effective approach to crisis response
CISM is a comprehensive, integrated crisis intervention system for managing traumatic events within organizations or communities helping emergency service personnel who work daily with death and serious injury.   It includes:

• Education and preparation in anticipation of crisis to establish procedures and improve coping and stress management.
• Individual, small and large group defusing, debriefing and crisis intervention
• Family support
• Organizational/community consultations,
• Follow up and referrals to other resources.
• Suicide prevention and intervention

Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support Training -(two day course)
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This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the following fields:

Group [basic] Crisis Intervention Training (two day course)
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This Critical Incident Stress Management Training is to prepare people on the front line of emergency response. This training is ideal for the following people:

Advanced Group Crisis Intervention Training (two day course)
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This workshop is designed for EAP, human resources and public safety personnel, mental health professionals, chaplains, emergency medical services providers, firefighters, physicians, police officers, nurses, dispatchers, airline personnel and disaster workers who are already trained in the critical incident stress debriefing format. It will also be useful for those working extensively with traumatized victims for various walks of life.

Pastoral Care Intervention (two day course)
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Pastoral Care Intervention combines faith-based resources with traditional techniques of crisis intervention specifically geared to chaplains, pastoral counselors, mental health professionals and ministers/pastors..

Comprehensive Crisis Preparation & Response for the Workplace -
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• Critical incidents that can affect a workplace
• Industry-specific culture and risk factors
• Referral, site assessment, and consultation
• Entities involved in a corporate crisis
• Issues and challenges of HR in a crisis
• Psychological crisis, employee concerns and wellness
• Creating a crisis plan for a business
• Developing a Peer team within a business
• Appropriate CISM interventions within a workplace
• Getting started in workplace crisis preparation and response

Grief following Trauma (two day course)
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This course is for professionals who will inevitably encounter traumatic death and loss issues both personally and professionally in their careers.  Participants will gain an understanding of how trauma impacts the grief process and learn how to evaluate and support persons who are experiencing traumatic death and loss.