NOVA Basic CRT Training

This week I took the NOVA Basic CRT Training at Kitchener. He was a very heavy course, but the worth the effort. It was good to meet a lot of new people with an interest in Emergency Services.

The course is outlined below.

NOVA’s 40-hour basic Crisis Response Training (CRT) explores crisis intervention theory and NOVA’s techniques for intervention with traumatized people.

The course emphasizes the fundamentals of crisis and trauma, how to adapt the NOVA’s basic techniques to individuals and groups, and how to create a community-based crisis response team. Topics include: immediate and long-term crisis reactions, diagramming or analyzing disasters and traumas, crisis and post-trauma interventions, NOVA’s Group Crisis Intervention (GCI) model, fundamentals of organizing crisis intervention teams, and special issues and populations.

The goals of the training are to understand the theory of crisis intervention, learn the NOVA model for individual and group crisis intervention, and learn theoretical information that is on the certification test, which must be passed to become a NOVA certified crisis responder. The training was lead by NOVA certified trainers.

Great Instructors!