National Organization Victim Assistance Crisis Response Training: Basic Course

National Organization Victim Assistance Crisis Response Training: Basic Course This is a 40-hour program preparing community leaders to help groups of affected people to cope with their immediate emotional reactions when a crisis strikes their community. Training equips leaders to plan for longer-term emotional support and assists teams to begin the process of developing their own community- based crisis response programs. Training covers the techniques of providing crisis intervention. It gives participants fundamentals on crisis and trauma, and how these are filtered through the victims' age and culture to indicate how to adapt the basic techniques to different groups. WHEN IS NOVA (8:00a - 5:00p) January 17, 2012 January 24, 2012 January 31, 2012 February 7, 2012 February 14, 2012 WHO SHOULD ATTEND Mental Health Professionals Law Enforcement Officers First Responders School Counselors School Principals Special Education Instructors School Nurses WHERE: Boggus Education Pavilion Room 5, Valley Baptist Medical Center Harlingen Sponsored by: Baptist General Convention of Texas and Valley Baptist Health System Registration and Cost infoatwww.texasbaptists.org/chaplaincy For more information contact: Pastoral Services, VBHS - (956) 389-1194 - pastoralservices@valleybaptist.net