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Facilitator Training for Flight Teams (Crisis Response Teams) This half-day workshop is designed for key leadership staff who deal with crisis response in schools. CMI has created a series of 20 online videos to be used with accompanying activities to allow districts to have comprehensive training of their teams. * As a facilitator, you will be able to lead the training using the Flight Team Training Online Resource from CMI. Designed to be flexible in delivery, these modules can be presented two at a time (about 1 1/2 to 2 hours to complete two videos and activities) after school each week for 10 weeks, or string several together for half- or whole-day inservice or training days.   The site license fee covers access to the videos and activities for the whole school year, and a per-participant fee that is equivalent to purchasing manuals for themselves and for the administrators in buildings that will be using the team when crisis strikes.   In addition to the online training program, we will provide suggestions and help with problem-solving or difficult questions that arise during training. You are always welcome to use the "contacts" page on our site for staff assistance or to reach Ms. Lovre. This link gives a full picture of the resource, costs and positive outcomes you'll find with this program. Please call CMI at 503-585-3484 for assistance in working out billing details. The shopping cart isn't quite flexible enough to accommodate this resource!   * While this half-day is adequate for leading this training, please note that we provide longer summer workshops that are designed for those in key leadership positions to learn collaboratively with those from other districts who are at the cutting edge.

Trauma Training in Salem! Two-day Trauma Training in Salem, 5-6, 2011 at Chemeketa Community College. Download the registration form here.

CHERI'S BLOG - LOG ON NOW! This year the blog will be much more about professional concerns, ideas and notes from the field... Cheri's Blog

IS YOUR TEAM READY? THE RAPID RESPONSE TEAM springs into action when lives are in the balance and every second counts.... Rapid Response Teams

AND YOUR FLIGHT TEAM? How well does your district respond in the aftermath? Flight Teams can be ready to roll... Flight Team

Team Evaluation Form

Suicide Awareness, Prevention, Intervention and Recovery Suicide Prevention and Intervention is an enormous topic, so we’ve split the course into four learning units. Each unit contains text, interactive learning tools, and concludes with an un-graded quiz. Each unit is designed to take an average of 30 minutes to complete. And because a two-hour time block is hard to come by, they are easily taken in separate sittings. At the end of the fourth segment the learner will take a graded assessment. The score from this assessment can be made available to a supervisor or administrator, if that is requested in advance. The course content is supplemented by a handout made available to learners from our website. When downloaded and printed out prior to starting this course, the handout will allow the learner to leave the course with copious notes to help them recognize and approach an at-risk student. Throughout the course, the learner will be prompted to complete corresponding sections of the handout with things they want to remember, responses to the material, and journal writings of how the material being presented may be of use in a future situation. A glossary of terms used in the teaching is accessible at any point during the learning unit. For more details on what this course offers, please see our online overview at: cmionlinelearning.org/cmisuidemo/Publish/HTML/Index.html Discounts for schools, districts, counties, and organizations are available. Please contact Cheri Lovre at 503-585-3484 or cheri@cmionline.org for more information.

VIDEO CONFERENCES & ONLINE LEARNING We at CMI are committed to make training available in as many formats as possible, to reach the greatest numbers of those who work with youth possible. To this end, we're instituting video conferencing and online on demand professional development. We will be publishing pre-scheduled video conferencing, for which any individual or group is welcome to register. We will be offering our hottest topics in formats to be easily accessed for school staff of all sorts. For instance, some one-hour offerings specific to counselors and administrators might be during the school day while those aimed at teachers will be shortly after dismissal time for after-school viewing. In addition to those that are scheduled by us, we invite districts to request specific content at specific times to meet their unique needs and desires. For instance, following a full team training, CMI recommends that all staff who work with youth in the entire district have the opportunity to be included in a one-hour segment on suicide prevention. There are some simple things that people can do that will save lives. And that is just one example. Other uses of video conferencing include bringing Ms. Lovre in to a parent meeting in the evening, following a string of suicides, a teacher arrest for soliciting sex on the internet, or other thorny issues that may have disrupted the trust parents had in the school district. What we know is that in the aftermath of major events, kids need compassionate adults and/or counselors and adults need experts. Nothing rebuilds trust in your school like having an outside expert speak highly of the plans your district had in place ahead of time, the appropriate steps that were immediately taken and the desire and the proactive steps the district is instituting to address the current situation. See our listing of segments commonly requested, and if we don't have what you want, call or email to see whether we can put it together for you. If it is outside of our expertise, we'll try to find you the expert who can meet your needs. Listing of content: (Most courses are 2 hour segments, can be customized to be longer or shorter, depending upon your needs.) • Administrative and Organizational Issues in School • Crisis Response • Grief, Loss and Bereavement • Youth in Grief • Suicide Prevention • Suicide Intervention • Responding in the Aftermath of Suicide • Fundamentals of Trauma • Stabilizing the Environment in the Aftermath of Trauma • Stabilizing the Individual in the Aftermath of Trauma • Safe Rooms • Memorial Events • De-Escalating Angry Students • Self-Mutilation Learn more

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