ICISF Assisting Individuals In Crisis

The Stony Plain Fire Department has booked Fire Within Crisis Services to conduct a 2 day Assisting Individuals in Crisis course. Details are below. This class is geared to get new members to start the training needed to be a peer support member or to refresh existing peer support members. The SPFD is looking to fill the remainder of the class seats with members from other departments. I have sent this out to my old and new regional contacts. Please feel free to share this email with others who may be interested.

Crisis Intervention is a specialized emergency mental health intervention that targets the response NOT the event. This course is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual (one-on-one) peer support crisis intervention.

 This is a 2-day ICISF certification course.

WHERE: Stony Plain Fire Department Training Room

WHEN: March 8 & 9 – 0900-1600

COST: $600 per Student

Lunch Provided

Program Highlights

1. Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
2. Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
3. Critical incident stress management (CISM)
4. Evidence-based practice
5. Basic crisis communication techniques
6. Common psychological and behavioural crisis reactions
7. Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
8. SAFER-Revised model
9. Suicide intervention
10. Includes textbook and certificate

To register members, please email jnesbitt@stonyplain.com by noon on Friday February 21^st.