Building & Maintaining a CISM Team
One-Day Course
Critical Incident Stress Management teams are a vital part of any agency or
organization. This team will respond to small or large incidents that can cause
significant stress…
CISM Practicum
One-Day Course, Prerequisite required
Many people complete the foundational ICISF courses – “Assisting Individuals in
Crisis” and “Group Crisis Intervention” either in the two-day…
Communication during Crisis
One-Day Course
Even in the best of circumstances, communication is difficult. Understanding
what people mean and responding so people understand is a constant…
Conflict & Confrontation
One-Day Course
Working with peers and colleagues during critical events becomes
challenging in the middle of chaos and overwhelming distress. All the trigger
points seem to…
Crisis Care during Traumatic Grief
One-Day Course
Grief is a common and healthy response to the loss of a friend or loved one. Grief is also a common reaction to losses of many other kinds – jobs, marriages, homes, health…
Crisis Intervention for Individuals & Groups
Three-day course
Crisis intervention is a unique form of emergency emotional health care. It is not counseling nor is it therapy. Crisis intervention is “emotional first aid” to those…
Crisis Care in Diversity
One-Day Course
Crisis intervention teams encounter people from diverse backgrounds, beliefs, values, and expectations. Understanding the worldview of those we serve is essential in…
Disaster Response Readiness
Two-Day Course
Disasters and other critical events are almost a common occurrence these days.
The devastation and losses are great, including loss of life. Many people have a
desire to assist during…
Effective Communication
Two-Day Course
One of the most important skills we must have as humans who live in relationships with others is the ability to communicate effectively. Communication enables us to share…
Emotional Intelligence
One-Day Course
Front-line work involves having to make quick decisions that can often mean the
difference between life and death for both their personnel and for the citizens that have…
Enhancing Resilience
One-Day Course
The concept of resilience has become a popular topic of discussion, learning, and practice in recent years. The idea of “bouncing back” from traumatic events has become imperative for first…
Foundations for Chaplains
Two-Day Course
People from almost every walk of life enter into the field of spiritual care during crises and disasters. Many also serve in institutions and agencies such as corporations, hospitals, schools, police…
Foundations for Disaster Response
One-Day Course
Whenever a major crisis or disaster happens, people tend to want to get involved. They want to respond. Some individuals create online groups and some…
Functional Stress Hardiness
Two-Day Course
In today’s world, most emergency services personnel have a very good understanding of functional fitness and the training that is required to physically do their jobs well…
Line of Duty Death
One-Day Course
It’s hard for a department to think about the death or catastrophic injury
happening to one of their members; however, not preparing for such an
event can cause even more…
Managing Relationships in Crisis
One-Day Course
Critical events, disasters, death, and trauma – they shatter our lives and we feel the emotional impact in every part of our life. While we attempt to cope…
Ministry in the Age of Pandemic
One-Day Course
What do you know about pandemics? Your experience during these past few
months has probably taught you a lot about pandemic. You know that it’s a real…
Moral Injury
One-Day Course
Healthcare professionals and emergency responders face extraordinary stressors in the crisis environment daily. Factor in staffing shortages, corporate financial constraints, long work hours, unrealistic rotations…
Operational Stress First Aid
One-Day Course
Operational Stress First Aid (OSFA) is a unique program to teach psychological
first aid to first responders and others who are susceptible to stress injury. The program was originally…
Peer Support in Critical Events
One-Day Course
The history of major disasters is as ancient as war, pestilence, and catastrophe.
These incidents of disaster include natural disasters and human-caused
disasters that may be…
Peer to Peer Crisis Intervention
One-Day Course
Today, many emergency services organizations recognize the value of peer support teams and train from within their organizations to meet the critical event stress that their personnel…
Preventing Suicide
One-Day Course
Why don’t we learn more about suicide – because the thought that we might have to intervene scares us to death! What we know about suicide is, it’s overwhelmingly sad and painful for the surviving friends and families…
Psychological First Aid
One-Day Course
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is an evidence-informed modular approach to help first responders in the immediate aftermath of disasters and other critical events. First responders…
Responding to Crisis
One-Day Course
Whenever a major crisis or disaster happens, people tend to want to get involved.
They want to respond. Some individuals create online groups and some self-deploy and show up…
Second Victim Syndrome
One-Day Course
“Second victims are health care providers who are involved in an unanticipated
adverse patient event, in a medical error and/or a patient related injury and
become victimized…
Spiritual Intelligence
One-Day Course
Research shows that emotional intelligence increases a person’s capacity to make
effective judgments, create and maintain healthy working relationships, handle…
Strategic Planning & Implementation
Two-Day Course, Prerequisite required
Today, crisis responders know how important it is to have a clearly defined Mission and Purpose. They also know that having clear objectives is essential. So how do those…
Strong Foundations for Responders
One-Day Course
PTSD and suicide in the first responder services have become a hot button issue due to suicide rates being on the rise. While the need for peer support, CISM teams, and correctly trained clinicians…
Start to Finish
One-Day Course
Crisis Intervention principles have long taught that mental health counseling and therapy do not belong in the context of field deployments and emergency crisis intervention…
Supporting Children after Disasters
One-Day Course
Children are exposed to many challenging situations. The frightful events of the last century are almost commonplace and new challenges threaten the daily lives of children…
Trauma Informed Care
One-Day Course
In today’s world, even professions that at one time were not deeply impacted by trauma are now facing challenging situations involving trauma on a regular basis. These professions…
ICISF Approved Courses
Advanced Assisting Individuals in Crisis
Two-Day Course
“Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute
emergency mental health intervention which requires….
Advanced Group Crisis Intervention
Two-Day Course
ICISF’s “Group Crisis Intervention” should be viewed as a prerequisite. Designed to provide participants with the latest…
Assisting Individuals in Crisis
Two-Day Course
Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute
emergency mental health intervention…
Critical Incidences in Places of Worship
Two-Day Course
The faith based communities have long been responders to disaster and
emergencies, providing needed care to those impacted…
Emotional & Spiritual Care in Disasters
Two-Day Course
This course will enhance your skills to provide effective emotional and spiritual
care (ESC) to meet the disaster-related…
Grief Following Trauma
Two-Day Course
In the course of one’s career, it is inevitable that professionals will encounter
traumatic death and loss issues both personally…
Group Crisis Intervention
Two-Day Course
Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-
component crisis intervention curriculum…
Individual & Group Crisis Intervention
Three-Day Course
Individual & Group Crisis Intervention (GRIN) is a three day course which combines both Individual and Group Crisis courses to teach…
Law Enforcement Perspectives
Two-Day Course
Violence in the workplace is a serious health and safety issue. This course will
provide an overview of current thinking and best practices…
Managing School Crisis
Two-Day Course
Designed to prepare for the inevitable crises that occur within schools and/or that affect those in schools, this training reflects…
Spiritual & Psychological First Aid
Two-Day Course
Providing effective emotional and spiritual care to individuals, families, and
communities, following critical incidents and in times…
Strategic Response to Crisis
Two-Day Course
Knowing what sequence of crisis intervention processes to use for which
individuals or groups, at what times and under what circumstances…
Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
Two-Day Course
This important course is for all who work with traumatized people. Explore the
“Stress Continuum,” the levels of stress including…
Suicide Awareness
One-Day Course, Prerequisite required
The ability to recognize and effectively intervene with suicidal individuals is one of the most challenging aspects of crisis intervention….
Suicide Prevention Intervention & Postvention
Two-Day Course
Why do people kill themselves? How do I ask someone if they are feeling suicidal? What do I do if they say they ARE suicidal? How do I deal with the…
Understanding Suicide
Two-Day Course
Why do people kill themselves? How do I ask someone if they are feeling suicidal? This course will provide answers for these and other questions…
Workplace Violence
Two-Day Course
Violence in the workplace is a serious health and safety issue. This course will provide an overview of current thinking and best practices…