Training
Required Volunteer Training
A new Federal mandate assures that leadership is clearly defined during a major disaster, and that there is a unified approach to incident management. In order to comply with this mandate, CityTeam now requires that all employees and volunteers involved with Disaster Response or working in a disaster have completed two straightforward internet courses.
Required Volunteer Training
CityTeam provides training and workshops for a community-based model to prepare volunteers to immediately respond to local and national disasters. Through this training, participants will also learn how to prepare disaster relief plans for their own families, schools, churches and other local organizations. Please contact us for more information on our courses or training schedules.
Next training course dates to be announced: please check back for updates.
*this is an additional voluntary training
To Register –Courtney McKeown at 610-872-6865 or cmckeown@cityteam.org.
Download Registration Form
2 Day Course Description:
The CISM: Group Crisis Intervention training program is designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic and multicomponent crisis intervention curriculum. The two day course prepares participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services including pre and post incident crisis education, significant other support services, on-scene support services, crisis intervention for individuals, demobilizations after large scale traumatic incidents, small group defusings and the group intervention known as Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The CISM: Group Crisis Intervention course specifically prepares participants to provide several of these interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusing and the CISD.
Day 1:(8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- General, cumulative, critical incident stress and PTSD
- High risk populations: emergency services, military, other
- ‘Critical Incidents’ - death, injury, threat, terror, etc.
- Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) fundamentals
- Core intervention tactics
- Demobilization
- Defusing of small groups
- Demobilization
Day 2:(8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.)
- Defusing Demonstration
- Essentials of group intervention, Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CIS
- Assessing the need for CISD
- Factors which enhance CISD success
- Question / Answer
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If you would like to volunteer, please contact Courtney McKeown at 610-872-6865 or cmckeown@cityteam.org. Please download the volunteer application
form and fax it to the number provided at the top of the form. |
CityTeam Video
Watch a video about our response efforts in disaster zones
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We encourage everyone to be
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