Certificate of Specialized Training Program
Core Curriculum (All Specialty Tracks are required to complete the Core Curriculum**)
BOTH REQUIRED
• Group Crisis Intervention
• Assisting Individuals in Crisis (formerly Individual Crisis Intervention & Peer Support)
ONE OF THESE REQUIRED
• Advanced Group Crisis Intervention
• Advanced Assisting Individuals in Crisis
• Strategic Response to Crisis
ONE OF THESE IS REQUIRED
• Suicide Prevention, Intervention and Postvention
• Suicide Awareness: An Introduction for Crisis Responders (Live or Online)
• Understanding Suicide: Effective Tools for Prevention, Intervention & Survivor Support
**Specialty Curriculum are required for completion of a specialty track.
Specialty Curriculum
For each specialty track, follow the instructions under the specialty track title and submit copies of all necessary certificates of completion along with the application and payment.
Emergency Services
Total of four days of training required for this specialty
2-Day Courses
• Behavioral Emergencies: Survival Strategies for Emergency Services & Counselors
• From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
• Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement (Live or Online)
• Line of Duty Death: Preparing the Best for the Worst
• Planning to Thrive: Building A CISM Culture Through Front End Management
• Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During & After Crises
• Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
• Working with Victims of Individual & Mass Crimes
• Workplace Violence (Live)
1-Day Courses
• Left of Bang: Front End Planning for CISM
• Planning to Thrive as a CISM Provider
• Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions (Live or Online)
• Stress & the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
• The Secrets of PSYCHOLOGICAL BODY ARMOR ™ - Holistic Wellness for Emergency Personnel (Live or Online)
• Techniques for Delivering Bad News for Crisis Response Personnel (Live or Online)
• Understanding the First Responder Cultures: For Mental Health Staff
• Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
• Workplace Violence (Live or Online)
Schools, Children and Families Crisis Response
Total of 4 days of training required for this specialty
2-Day Courses
- CISM Application with Children
- Managing School Crises: From Theory to Application (Live or Online)
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
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Workplace Violence (Live)
1-Day Courses
- Stress & the Responder’s Family CISM Skills for Family Crisis Intervention
- Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
- Workplace Violence (Live or Online)
Healthcare Crisis Management and Staff Support
Must complete Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting along with an additional 2 Days of Training
2-Day Courses
- Staff Support in the Healthcare Setting (Required for Specialty Track)
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During & After Crises
- Workplace Violence (Live)
1-Day Courses
- Resilience in Healthcare: Performance, Meaning and Connection
- Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions (Live or Online)
- Techniques for Delivering Bad News for Crisis Response Personnel (Live or Online)
- Workplace Violence (Live or Online)
Spiritual Care in Crisis Intervention
Must complete Pastoral Crisis Intervention along with an additional 2 Days of Training
3-Day Course
- Pastoral Crisis Intervention - required for this specialty
2-Day Courses
- Emotional and Spiritual Care in Disasters
- Grief Following Trauma
- Healing Ways Group Crisis Intervention for Indigenous People
- Pastoral Crisis Intervention I and/or 2
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
- Spiritual and Psychological First Aid
1-Day Course
- Critical Incidents in Places of Worship-Providing Effective Crisis Support
- Resilience Leadership for Emergency Health Services & Healthcare Professions (Live or Online)
Mass Disasters & Terrorism
Two courses required for this specialty
- Emotional & Spiritual Care in Disasters
- Planning to Thrive as a CISM Provider
- Psychology of Terrorism and Psychological Counter-Terrorism (Live or Online)
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
- Terrorism: Psychological Impact and Implications
- Working with Victims of Individual & Mass Crimes
Substance Abuse Crisis Response
Must complete From Trauma to Addictions along with an additional 2 Days of Training
2-Day Courses
- From Battlefield to Street: One Uniform to Another
- From Trauma to Addictions - required for this specialty
- Law Enforcement Perspectives for CISM Enhancement (Live or Online)
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
- Stress Management for the Trauma Service Provider
1-Day Courses
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The Secrets of PSYCHOLOGICAL BODY ARMOR ™ - Holistic Wellness for Emergency Personnel (Live or Online)
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Understanding the First Responder Cultures: For Mental Health Staff
- Understanding Uniformed Services Family Stress
Workplace & Industrial Applications
Must complete Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace along with an additional 2 Days of Training
2-Day Courses
- Comprehensive Crisis Preparation and Response for the Workplace - required for this specialty
- Corporate Crisis Response
- Resilience Training: Psychological Survival Skills for Before, During and After Crises
- Understanding Human Violence: Survival Information for Emergency Services and Counselors
- Workplace Violence (Live)
1-Day Course
- Workplace Violence (Live or Online)
