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May 13, 2008, 1- 4 pm, Bend, Oregon May 13, 2008 A Workshop Exploring Self-Care, Deeper Wisdom and the Personal Toll of Responding to Those in Crisis. For counselors, social workers, psychologists, clergy, volunteers or others who work in schools, hospitals,hospices, agencies, churches, or in any settings that call on our compassion in working with others. The Cognitive Aspect: • The role of debriefing, defusing, and decompressing after responses • The role of personal self-care Examples of Deeper Wisdom • The Amish -- Beyond Forgiveness • One Remarkable Administrator’s Gift What Sustains You? • Taking time for exploring what sustains each of us personally • Making one new commitment to oneself toward greater self-care or spiritual practice in daily life. Registration: $45 for the afternoon. Groups: Four at full rate, fifth is free! Call us at 503-585-3484 with any questions. (Discounted registration fee of $35 for all Flight Team Members that attend the morning training session at High Desert ESD.)

Training in Bend, Oregon May 13, 2008 A Workshop Exploring Self-Care, Deeper Wisdom and the Personal Toll of Responding to Those in Crisis. For counselors, social workers, psychologists, clergy, volunteers or others who work in schools, hospitals,hospices, agencies, churches, or in any settings that call on our compassion in working with others. The Cognitive Aspect: • The role of debriefing, defusing, and decompressing after responses • The role of personal self-care Examples of Deeper Wisdom • The Amish -- Beyond Forgiveness • One Remarkable Administrator’s Gift What Sustains You? • Taking time for exploring what sustains each of us personally • Making one new commitment to oneself toward greater self-care or spiritual practice in daily life. Registration: $45 for the afternoon. Groups: Four at full rate, fifth is free! (Discounted registration fee of $35 for all Flight Team Members that attend the morning training session at High Desert ESD.) Bend0408PMFlyer.pdf Download pdf

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HOST A TRAINING IN YOUR DISTRICT - 30 PERSON MINIMUM Sample Course: 2 DAY TRAUMA TRAINING Cheri Lovre, Director of Crisis Management Institute, will be providing training in responding to psychological trauma. Participants can attend either the first day or both days (Day One attendance is a requirement for attending Day Two). Day One covers the biophysiology and the changes in brain function for those who are unexpectedly on the scene of traumatic events. Day Two is a skill-building session on intervention strategies for use with individuals or groups. It is an effective alternative to Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) or debriefing. This model of intervention is specifically designed for use with victims, bystanders, and survivors of traumatic events, not for emergency responders (for whom debriefing and CISM was designed and is appropriate). This training is helpful for all who deal with survivors in the immediate aftermath of traumatic events -- car wrecks, natural disasters, school shootings -- any event that is likely to leave survivors vulnerable to developing Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Training link and times... Contact us to set up atraining in your district. Hours will be: 8:00 - 8:30 - Registration 8:30 - 11:45 - Morning session 11:45 - 1:00 - Lunch on your own 1:00 - 4:00 Afternoon session Certificates of Completion will be available for both one-day and two-day participants. Registration: $100 .00 for day one only $175.00 for both days Please notify us ahead of time regarding needs for credit through your association. We need time to process those applications. Content of Training: Day One: • Introduction to psychological trauma • Biochemistry and physiology of trauma • Changes in brain function • Role of the limbic system • Memory lodging of traumatic events • Behaviors, symptoms, long-term outcomes Day Two: • Goals and guidelines of intervention • Steps in intervention • Use of guided imagery • Symptom management • Skill-building and practice Intended Audience: This workshop is helpful for any staff who work with survivors of trauma, including social workers, counselors, emergency room staff, chaplains, nurses, teachers, dispatch, ministers, hospice workers, emergency responders, law enforcement, child protective services staff, school counselors and psychologists, special education teachers, human resources staff, staff in crisis shelters, hot line volunteers and any who work in fields bringing contact with traumatized individuals. If you'd like to reach us at CMI regarding any of the trainings listed above or others of interest to you, please call us at 503-585-3484 or email us at >. Thanks! Sign Up

TRAINING OPTIONS ~ LIVE DEMO! Check out this interactive demo that goes over the different levels of team preparedness. What level is your team at? Where do you want to be? How do you get there? These models will show you what you need to know. After viewing, please contact us for more information on how to evaluate your team. Training Model Demo Training Model Demo

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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 Charli at 503-585-3484 or charli@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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