Immediately after an active shooter scene has been secured, stabilizing people who are impacted psychologically becomes the primary objective. Immediate behavioral health response is critical in minimizing the overall impact and ensuring the proper recovery of such incidents.
Learners will participate in an Active Assailant Exercise on a university campus and role play immediate stabilization of impacted individuals using the evidence-informed Disaster Behavioral Health techniques known as Psychological First Aid and Post-Traumatic Stress Management. These skills may be applied to emergency events such as the 2013 Boston Bombings, COVID-19, Hurricane Maria, and also are the state-of-the art practice for community suicide and homicides.
In this training, participants will play as actors reacting to a realistic scenario driven exercise, and later play as those impacted while trainees practice delivering Disaster Behavioral Health interventions.
Register now to be a:
- Actor: Initial response full scale exercise (8 AM - 1 PM)
- Actor: Post response trauma training (1 PM - 4 PM)
- Provider: Trauma Response & Recovery Training (1 PM - 4 PM)
- Participant: Exercise and trauma training (8 AM - 4 PM)
Due to the advanced nature of this training, registrants will be put on a waitlist.
NOTE: A pre-requisite for the training is completion of Psychological First Aid (PFA) training by National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCSTN), or equivalent. Participants that have completed Psychological First Aid training delivered by a NCSTN trainer preferred.
