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All classes are held at the Riverside Police Station located at 10540 Magnolia Ave. Riverside, CA 92505

Grief Following Trauma

COURSE DESCRIPTION: In the course of one’s career, it is inevitable that professionals will encounter traumatic death and loss issues both personally and professionally. Professionals often feel ill prepared to provide effective care throughout the grief process. This course will cover key grief and loss concepts relating to trauma and traumatic death. Participants will increase their knowledge of how trauma impacts the grief process and will gain skills for evaluating and supporting persons who have experienced traumatic death and loss.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Characteristics of trauma
  • Clinical implications of grief
  • Primary needs of victims
  • What helps and what hurts
  • Types of traumatic events
  • Traumatic grief and grief reactions
  • Death notification
  • Applications of the SAFER model
  • Supporting grieving people
  • Personal self-care plan
Dates: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Assisting Individuals in Crisis

COURSE DESCRIPTION
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”.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
  • Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
  • Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
  • Evidence-based practice
  • Basic crisis communication techniques
  • Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
  • SAFER-Revised Model
  • Suicide Intervention
  • Risks of “Iatrogenic” harm
  Date: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Group Crisis Intervention

COURSE DESCRIPTION
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”. Group Crisis Intervention presents the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic & multi-component crisis intervention curriculum. This course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined & participants will leave with the knowledge & tools to provide several group crisis intervention, specifically demobilizations, defusings, & the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services & referrals when necessary will also be discussed. These courses are designed for those in the fields of Business & Industry, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Relevant research findings
  • Relevant recommendations for practice
  • Incident assessment
  • Strategic intervention planning
  • “Resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum
  • Large group crisis interventions
  • Small group crisis interventions
  • Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention
  • Reducing risks
  • Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
Date: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Combined 3-Day Group & Individual Crisis Intervention

COURSE DESCRIPTION: This 3-day course combines ALL the content of Assisting Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention courses. Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, this course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum.
  • Critical incident stress management.
  • Basic communication techniques.
  • Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions.
  • SAFER-Revised Model
  • Suicide intervention.
  • Relevant research findings.
  • Large group crisis intervention.
  • Small group crisis intervention.
  • Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention.
  • Demobilizations, Crisis Management Briefings, and Defusing’s.
  • Critical incident stress debriefing (CISD)
Dates: TBA Time: 8:00-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $380.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $60 CANCELLATION FEE
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Pastoral Crisis Intervention 1

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Pastoral Crisis Intervention may be thought of as the combination of faith-based resources with traditional techniques of crisis intervention. Pastoral Crisis Intervention represents a powerful addition to traditional community and organizational psychological support resources. The purpose of this two-day course is to assist the participants in learning how pastoral interventions and traditional psychological crisis interventions may be effectively integrated. Chaplains, pastoral counselors, mental health professionals, ministers, and anyone interested in the use of faith-based resources in healing should find this course of interest.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Nature of human crisis
  • Nature of crisis intervention
  • Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
  • Signs and symptoms of the crisis state
  • The “crisis of faith”
  • Criteria for psychological triage
  • Strategic SAFER-PCI Model
  • Common PCI Mistakes
  • Challenging PCIs
Date: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Pastoral Crisis Intervention II

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Pastoral Crisis Intervention may be thought of as the combination of faith-based resources with traditional techniques of crisis intervention. This course builds on the foundations of ICISF’s “Pastoral Crisis Intervention I” class. More specific advanced concepts and specific field applications where pastoral crisis intervention is applied will be covered. This class is not only for Chaplains, pastoral counselors, mental health professionals, ministers, but for anyone interested in the use of faith-based resources in healing should find this course of interest.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Crisis intervention, CISM & PCI
  • Risks & potential adverse reactions
  • Advance topics in assessment
  • Principals of basic spiritual first aid<\li>
  • PCI with those expressing theodolitic concerns
  • The incident management system (IMS)
  • PCI with those expressing suicidal ideation
  • PCI with those in acute bereavement
  • Principles of death notifications
  • Principles & practices associated with self-care
Date: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riveside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Three-Day Pastoral Crisis Intervention I & II

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
This class is able to combine both the Pastoral Crisis Intervention I and II into a 3-day period. The student will receive two (2) Certificates of Completion through the University of Maryland at the end of the training. One for Pastoral Crisis Intervention I and the other for Pastoral Crisis Intervention II.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Nature of human crisis
  • Nature of crisis intervention
  • Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
  • Signs and symptoms of the crisis state
  • The “crisis of faith”
  • Criteria for psychological triage
  • Strategic SAFER-PCI Model
  • Common PCI Mistakes
  • Challenging PCIs
  • Crisis intervention, CISM & PCI
  • Risks & potential adverse reactions
  • Advance topics in assessment
  • Principals of basic spiritual first aid
  • PCI with those expressing theodolitic concerns
  • The incident management system (IMS)
  • PCI with those expressing suicidal ideation
  • PCI with those in acute bereavement
  • Principles of death notifications
  • Principles & practices associated with self-care
Date: August 5-7, 2022 Time: 8:00-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $380.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $60 CANCELLATION FEE
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Strategic Response to Crisis

COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Knowing what sequence of crisis intervention processes to use for which individuals or groups, at what times, and under what circumstances is crucial to all effective early intervention programs. The course will present essential information for the assessment of both crisis situations and the effects of critical incidents on people involved in those situations. Learn to create an effective plan of action to assist those in crisis and complete a series of exercises designed to sharpen assessment and crisis planning skills. Strategic planning and tactical decision making are emphasized, as are rationales for choosing one set of crisis intervention processes over another. This course builds confidence that crisis interventionists will make the right choices of interventions for the populations they are assisting under specific circumstances. This course requires previous training and experience. ICISF’s “Group Crisis Intervention” and “Individual Crisis Intervention and Peer Support” should be viewed as prerequisites.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:
  • Strategic planning as it applies to crisis intervention
  • National Incident Management System and crisis intervention
  • Elements of Effective Planning
  • Steps in Developing the Plan
  • Planning process in assessing target populations
  • Determining the type, timing and resources necessary
  • Assisting large numbers of people involved in a crisis
  • The most important crisis intervention tactics
  • Managing a complicated or large scale crisis event
 
Dates: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost:$190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Law Enforcement Perspectives to CISM

  COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Learn to identify, understand & work with the “Blue Wall of Silence” in the law enforcement community. Designed to provide insight & understanding of the different types of stress in the law enforcement culture from a systems perspectives emphasis, and will provide practical “back pocket skills” in providing crisis intervention services to law enforcement organizations & individual personnel in crisis. The Law Enforcement Perspectives course is intended for law enforcement officers, their families, mental health professionals, chaplains, & organizations that interact within the law enforcement community. It is an excellent course for CISM teams & team members who would want to enhance their understanding of the differences in the law enforcement culture as compared to other first responder cultures.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • Community perceptions of the law enforcement profession
  • Differentiated Model of oppression in capitalistic systems
  • System dysfunctions in the law enforcement culture
  • Special considerations when providing CMB group interventions
  • Stress areas of a law enforcement officer in crisis
  • Specific stress areas to law enforcement officer culture
  • Healthy coping mechanisms & resiliency protective factors
  • Interventions to a suicide of a law enforcement officer or a LODD
  • Addictions & CISM response
  • Psychological & emotional perceptions following an officer involved shooting
Date: TBA Time: 8:30-5:00
Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $190.00
NOTE: THERE IS A $40 CANCELLATION FEE
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Living Shield Ministries School of Chaplaincy (40 hours)

  COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Chaplaincy is a cutting-edge ministry which allows one to reach out to—not only the faith community, but the secular community as well. Though looked upon as spiritual, a chaplain’s primary purpose is secular in nature, for he/she is able to provide crisis intervention to those who have experienced trauma in their lives. A trained chaplain is able to provide both emotional and spiritual care to people. Chaplains are not “clergy” with a different title. Some are clergy, but many are simply men and women who have a heart of compassion for the hurting, and who have been trained in how to come alongside those in crisis and help bring some stability to their lives. Chaplains are able to serve those in government as well as those in the community (law enforcement, fire, EMS, military, district attorney, schools, hospital, hospice, prisons, corrections, corporations, etc.). There is not a place on the planet where a chaplain could not be of service to people. Properly trained Chaplains are able to encourage others while ministering to the whole person, addressing their physical, emotional and spiritual needs. Trained and ordained/licensed chaplains are able to provide crisis intervention, stress management techniques, grief counseling, advocacy, and spiritual care to first-responders and the community when necessary.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
  • History of Chaplaincy
  • What is a Chaplain
  • Is Chaplaincy Biblical
  • Who can be a Chaplain
  • Types of Chaplains
  • Duties of a Chaplain
  • Difference Between a Chaplain & Clergy
  • What Makes a Good Chaplain
  • Chaplaincy & Government
  • Ethics & Principles of Chaplaincy
  • Privileged Communication & Confidentiality
  • Proselytizing
  • Stress & PTSD
  • Biology of Stress
  • Stress Management Techniques
  • Grief & Loss
  • Introduction to CISM
  • Communication & Active Listening
  • Importance of Nouthetic Counseling
  • Depression
  • Addictions
  • Suicide
  • Death Notifications
  • Domestic Violence
  • Child & Elder Abuse
  • Human Trafficking
  • Self-Care
Dates: TBA Time: 8:30-6:00 Location: Riverside Police – Magnolia Station 10540 Magnolia Ave Riverside, CA 92505
Cost: $410.00
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