Crisis Team ("Flight Team") Foundational Training If anything can throw you a curve, crisis can! That's why we've got several options for helping you set up crisis response teams: our Basic Training, Advanced Training, Facilitator Training and Catastrophic Events Training. On-Site Training CMI provides on-site training for teams. Flexibility allows for these teams to be district-wide, county-wide or of other configurations including agencies. Team trainings are three to five days in length. Who Should Attend Districts are encouraged to include administrators, counselors, school psychologists, nurses, social workers, teachers, clerical staff, transportation, safety officers, and other key people. Some will attend specific portions of the training while others will attend the training in its entirety. Content covered includes Administrative and Organizational Issues, Grief, Suicide Intervention and Prevention, Trauma, Stabilizing the Environment, SafeRooms, the checklist of things to do, flyers, templates for letters and guidelines for teachers, counselors and others, and much, much more. Although some staff people attend different segments, the team that responds to the students' needs in grief attend all sessions. This is a comprehensive, broad training that includes conceptual aspects, problem-solving, planning, skill-building and pragmatic steps to take. Comprehensive Basic Training for School-Based Crisis Response and/or for Teams Includes: * Trauma intervention and working in the aftermath of trauma * Grief * General principles in crisis response * Suicide prevention, intervention & response * Children's issues/developmental factors * Violence prevention * Parent needs in times of crisis/tragedy * Managing the media / press * Crucial communication for greatest assistance to survivors Advanced Training for School Crisis Responders Includes: * Team leadership * Leading parent meetings and support efforts * Responding to natural disasters or community-wide events * More in-depth discussion of suicide * Care for the caregiver (self-care) * Catastrophic school events overview Facilitator Training Includes: The Institutes for Facilitator Training involve 36 hours of training and technical assistance, providing participants with the background and materials to return to their districts and facilitate this curriculum in a variety of ways: * Train a new crisis response team or enhance skills of existing district team * Use for teacher and staff inservice * Teach as a full 30 to 45 contact hour continuing education course * Use for continuing professional development * Teach for graduate credit Catastropic Events Training Includes: (those that unfold on school grounds during school hours requiring emergency services to respond) * Four critical phases in responding to catastrophic events * Essential collaboration between schools, law enforcement, hospitals, emergency services and many other major players * Comprehensive issues with media * Organizational strategies and planning issues * Follow-up and recovery * Background information This workshop is best integrated after the basic training has laid the foundation a school needs in order to implement this more complex planning process. CMI's trainings are often best organized by county-wide educational agencies, such as BOCES, IUs, ESDs or other regional organizations. Please check with us to see how to best utilize a collaborative effort involving more than one school district.

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Catastrophic Events Resource Manual This cutting edge guide prepares school districts for a variety of catastrophic events, from school shootings to the rupture of a gas main or toxic industrial spill. Organized for immediate use when a crisis is unfolding on school grounds during the school day, a major portion of the manual is the "how to prepare" component. It includes a section on media relations for dealing with the influx of satellite dish trucks from national media, including guidelines for press conferences and press releases. View or purchase materials

Crisis Resource Manual Our training manuals are designed to offer staff comprehensive resources for crisis day and planning for crisis response. They seek to bring school cutting-edge knowledge, insights, training, planning and response capabilities. View or purchase materials

Crisis Training Set When CMI provides district or regional training, we encourage participants to purchase the Crisis Training Set. This is also a terrific resource for instructors and professors in colleges of education to use as a basis for classes that address crisis response, at-risk youth, school climate, violence prevention or related issues. View or purchase materials

Training Manual The Training Manual was originally sold only to participants in five-day crisis team trainings offered by CMI and is highly recommended for participants in the Facilitator Training. Each chapter covers a different content area, and some chapters have exercises designed to help participants become more aware of their own unfinished grieving from past experiences. This allows them to be able to predict what kinds of crisis situations may be difficult once they're responding in the school setting. View or purchase materials