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 Victim Assistance Academy for North Dakota Minot State University 2011 VAAND dates TBD |
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Welcome
The Victim Assistance Academy for North Dakota (VAAND) offers a rare opportunity to live, work, study, and interact with allied professionals who routinely work with victims of crime. This course provides fundamental, academic, and skills based training.
The VAAND fulfills the need of a centralized training center for professionals in the field of victim services and addresses the obstacles facing professionals pertaining to training. As modeled from other state victim academies, the VAAND has a partnership with MSU as the central training location for North Dakota.
CRITICAL INCIDENT STRESS MANAGEMENT (CISM)
BASIC GROUP CRISIS INTERVENTION
November 8 – 9, 2010 Minot, ND
Presented by: Carol Staben-Burroughs, LCPC
Training Description
The Basic Group CISM training program is designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multicomponent crisis intervention curriculum. The two day course prepares participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services including pre and post incident crisis education, on-scene support services, crisis intervention for individuals, demobilizations after large scale traumatic incidents, small group defusing and the group intervention known as Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The Basic CISM course specifically prepares participants to provide several of these interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusing and the CISD. The need for appropriate follow up services and referrals when necessary is also described. Considerable evidence gathered to date strongly supports the multicomponent crisis intervention strategy which is discussed in this course.
Who Should Attend?
The Basic course in CISM is for people who work in the emergency response fields, Human Service, and other professionals who desire to be part of a debriefing team.
- Corrections
- Law Enforcement
- Ambulance
- Fire
- 911 Dispatchers
- Victim/Witness Coordinators
- Advocates
- Social Workers
- Emergency Personnel
- Mental Health Professionals
- Chaplains/Clergy
- Search and Rescue
- Hospitals
Continuing education credits (CEU & POST) pending for social workers, licensed counselors, addiction counselors, EMT, licensed psychologists, and law enforcement.
Upon successful completion of the entire 2 day training, participants will be awarded a certificate from the International Critical Incident Stress Foundation (ICISF).
Questions? Contact:
Nancy Murphy, Academy Coordinator
Rural Crime and Justice Center
500 University Ave West
Minot, ND 58707
Phone: 701-858-3447
Fax: 701-858-3460
Email: nancy.murphy@minotstateu.edu
Website: www.minotstateu.edu/rcjc/vaand_home.shtml