ICISF/CISM-3 Day
In-Person Training
ABOUT THE TRAINING
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Presented by:
Kelley Meshirer, ICISF Instructor
Dates: August 28th-30th, 2023
Time: 8:00AM-5:00PM Daily
Location:
Sierra Vista Police Department
911 N. Coronado Drive
Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
About the Course
Course Description:
This 3-day course combines ALL of the content of ICISF’s Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention courses.
Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”. Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multi-component crisis intervention curriculum, this course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services for both the individual and for groups. Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusings and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals when necessary will also be discussed.
This course is designed for anyone in the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
· Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
· Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
· Critical incident stress management
· Evidence-based practice
· Basic crisis communication techniques
· Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
· Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
· SAFER-Revised model
· Suicide intervention
· Relevant research findings
· Large group crisis interventions
· Small group crisis interventions
· Adverse outcome associated with crisis intervention
· Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
Fee: FREE per attendee
Space is limited to up to 40 attendees
(80%+ sworn, 20%- civilian staff) on first come, first serve basis!
REGISTER TODAY!
CLASS SIZE IS LIMITED.
CISM Training - Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention (Sierra Vista, AZ)
August 28-30, 2023 from 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. / Instructor: Kelley Harris Meshirer, MA, CTP / Location: Sierra Vista Police Department 911 N. Coronado Drive Sierra Vista, AZ 85635
About the Instructor
Kelley Harris Meshirer, MA, CTP
Kelley Meshirer has served Public Safety since 2012 through various non-profit avenues, formerly her most recent role as Southern Community Liaison to the 100 Club of Arizona. She has experience, leadership and training in areas including critical incidents, suicide prevention/intervention, peer support, and mental health. She has been a first responder spouse to a 26-year veteran of federal law enforcement since 2004. She has navigated several critical incidents and line of duty injuries throughout her husband’s career. The most life-changing in 2018 when he was involved in a line-of-duty shooting incident and survived. She attributes her wellness to hard work and the support they received from her husband’s agency, friends, family, community and primarily her faith. She also greatly recognizes the benefit her family received from the counseling of a trauma specialist.
Kelley is an honors graduate from Liberty University with her Master's in Addiction Counseling, and is currently a doctoral student at Liberty focused in Traumatology. Kelley's passion for working with first responder individuals, couples, and families has brought her to her current role at 10-4 Medical, an integrated health practice providing medical, occupational and mental health services. She addresses addiction, substance misuse, maladaptive coping, communication, habitual patterns, co-morbidity, crisis intervention, grief, and trauma as an Addiction Specialist and a Certified Trauma Professional.