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Community Crisis Response Team Training
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Awarded by AHD and The National Organization for Victim
Assistance® (NOVA)The National Organization for Victim Assistance® (NOVA) sent its
first Crisis Response Team to Edmond, Oklahoma, in 1986. Since that
time, NOVA has trained and deployed thousands of responders to
disasters small and large, natural and man-made, primarily all over
the United States but also in other parts of the world.
Founded in
1975, NOVA is the oldest national group of its kind in the worldwide
victims’ movement. NOVA’s mission is to promote rights and services
for victims of crime and crisis everywhere.
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To prepare individuals in the community context to respond to a
traumatic incident which affects the community-at-large, in a
manner which contains the impact of the event and initiates
reconstruction and healing.
The 24 hour Basic equips graduates, to help groups of affected
people to cope with their immediate emotional reactions when a
crisis strikes their community, and to plan for longer-term
emotional support. The training addresses the theoretical
foundations of community crisis response, teaches skills for
working with victims and survivors, response management as well as
educating particpants about special issues or populations such as
working cross-culturally, addressing spiritual issues, and
tailoring services for children and the elderly.
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Course Objectives |
This course will help participants:
- Learn about the individuals physical and emotional
response to crisis and identify it in the words of crisis
victims
- Learn about the communities experience of crisis and apply
learning to a past disaster scenario
- Learn and practice skills for breaking bad news and to
provide psychological first aid on a one-on-one basis and for
groups of people
- Learn about the fears, losses, grief and anger, guilt and
shame related to traumatic incidents
- Learn about the long-term reactions victims may have to
crisis and methods of support for them
- Learn and practice identifying, activating and deploying a
crisis response team
- Identify the procedures and resources which need to be
established pre-crisis
- Learn about how to enter and work in a culture different
than our own
- Learn about how children and the elderly experience trauma
differently and what special approaches are required to
provide age sensitive crisis intervention
- Identify how crisis responders can be effected by this
work and how to take care of themselves and avoid burning out
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Course Contents |
Lesson 1
- Orientation to Crisis Response Teams
- Trauma Expericence: Internal Reactions
Lesson 2
- Trauma Experience: External Reactions
- Crisis Intervention
- Group Crisis Intervention
Lesson 3
- Death, Loss and Grief
- Death Notifications
- Long Term Stress Reactions
Lesson 4
- Post Trauma Resources
- Spiritual Dimensions in Crisis
- Coordinating a Community Crisis Response Team
- Local Planning
Lesson 5
- Group Crisis Intervention Simulation
- Cultural Issues in Crisis
Lesson 6
- Special Issues of Age
- Stress of Caregivers
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Who Should Attend |
Counsellors, private practice practitioners, social workers,
teachers, childcare providers, community workers, health
workers, police, emergency service personnel, psychologists,
clergy, humanitarian aid workers, criminal justice
professionals, human resource professionals.
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Course Details |
| Dates: |
08, 09 & 11 June 2012 (3 Day Course) |
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9.00am – 6.00pm |
| Venue: |
Academy of Human Development Pte Ltd
37
Middle Road, #05-00, Uweei Building
Singapore 188946 (see map)
(*dates
and venue subject to change) |
| Closing Date: |
06 June 2012 |
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Award |
Participants who meet 75% class attendance will be awarded a
Certificate of Completion by
The National
Organization for Victim Assistance® (NOVA), in collaboration
with the Academy of Human Development. |
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Trainer(s) |
Ms. Suzanne Anderson is a certified crisis responder and
trainer with the National Organization for Victim Assistance.
Suzanne has trained crisis intervenors in the United States,
Canada, Yugoslavia, Singapore, India, Thailand, Indonesia, China
and Myanmar. She has responded to an industrial plant explosion,
hurricane, tornado, earthquake, cyclone, tidal surge, tsunami,
terrorist attack, drowning as well as working with war refugees.
Suzanne is a Registered Social Worker in Singapore in clinical
practice at the SACAC Counseling Center. She completed her
Master of Social Work at the National University of Singapore
and has initiated doctoral work with the University of Southern
Queensland. |
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Enquiries |
To find out more about the course, please call 6593 5283 or 6425
2422.
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