Trauma Specific
Some estimates state that up to 90% of people involved with the behavioral health or criminal justice systems have suffered some form of significant traumatic event in their lives. Using a universal precautions approach FSS trains criminal justice and behavioral health professionals to recognize the signs of trauma, use approaches that will not retraumatize individuals which will help in avoiding additional crisis events and increase safety for officers and subjects. FSS will also train your staff in responses to traumatic events, both individual and large scale.
How Being Trauma-Informed Improves Criminal Justice System Response
Some estimates state that up to 90% of people involved with the behavioral health or criminal justice systems have suffered some form of significant traumatic event in their lives. This SAMHSA GAINS Center developed course looks to create an awareness of the effects of trauma on behaviors and develop appropriate trauma informed responses. Trauma-informed criminal justice responses can help to avoid re-traumatizing individuals, and thereby increase safety for all, decrease recidivism, and promote and support recovery of justice-involved women and men with serious mental illness. (4 hours)
Trauma Informed Crisis Response Tools
Some estimates state that up to 90% of people involved with the behavioral health or criminal justice systems have suffered some form of significant traumatic event in their lives. This course looks to create an awareness of the effects of trauma on behaviors and develop appropriate trauma informed responses. Aimed at crisis workers and mental health professionals. (2 to 4 hours)
Resilience refers to a person’s inherent capacity to moderate and recover from traumatic experience. Coping is expending conscious effort to solve or tolerate personal or interpersonal problems, stress or conflict. This course describes resilience and its attributes and describes very specific coping skills that can be learned to moderate crisis situations. (2 to 3 hours)
PTSD – Understanding and Intervening
Approximately 8% of the population suffers from PTSD. Law enforcement and military estimates range closer to 30%. In this course we will look at the signs of PTSD, how we can deal with someone in the throes of a flashback and some resiliency factors that we can use to help moderate or cope with PTSD. (2 to 3 hours)
Law Enforcement in the Aftermath of Large Scale Traumatic Events
Law enforcement personnel deal with people undergoing individual traumas on a daily basis. We will examine the differences between individual and large scale traumas in relation to its effects on individuals and the community, to law enforcement and other first responders, and look at some tools for moderating the effects of traumatic events. (2 to 4 hours)
Traumatic Events and Substance Abuse
We will be looking at the interplay between substance abuse and responses to traumatic events. We’ll be discussing the issue of whether there is an increased use of alcohol or drugs in response to trauma, the increased needs of people in recovery from substance abuse and the increased need of those currently dealing with substance abuse related disorders. (2 to 3 hours)
Death and Traumatic Grief
This course will point out the distinct differences in the grieving and mourning processes in the aftermath of a traumatic or unnatural death. It’ll review Therese Rando’s 6 R processes of mourning, complicated mourning and traumatic grieving. (2 to 4 hours)
Leadership and Communication Skills
Effective Communication is essential for successful leadership. In this course we’ll discuss methods for deciding when and how to effectively share your ideas, use an assertive communication style, and give supportive confrontation or constructive feedback. We’ll look at overcoming obstacles including some difficult personality types and methods for resolving difficult situations. (2 to 3 hours)
