Especially for ESAs ~
Become Indispensable to Your Districts
Be the “go to” source for cutting-edged training for crisis response teams. Our innovative video series with activities provides the critical foundation for building team skills.
Facilitator Training
Either your staff or district staff become Facilitators by completing the crisis response team training (“Flight Team Training”) and the Facilitator Training. Then your ESA holds annual training for both ESA and district staff to bring on new crisis team members. You will want to include administrative, mental health, bi-lingual and other key staff in your trainings to create depth of skill and expertise on the team, in the ESA and in district buildings.
Develop Your Organizational Structure
Once many of your districts have joined the process, you are in a great position to choose any of a variety of team structures. Some remain separate district teams, but the most effective are county or regional collaborative teams, mobilized by the ESA, but with the lion’s share of the strength coming from district staff who respond on behalf of neighboring districts. This allows the district experiencing the crisis to remain stable, with key people in their own buildings.
Training Structure
- Flight Team Training and Facilitator Training are each 20 hour courses.
- Each session includes large group learning, break-out sessions and use of handouts and visuals.
- Weekly assignments are completed in small group online video sessions at times of each group’s choosing.
Who Should Attend
- School Administrators
- School Counselors
- School Social Workers
- School Psychologists
- School Nurses
- Mental Health Workers
- Faith-Based Educators
- Community People
Topics Included
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Overview of Crisis Response
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Flow Chart of Crisis Day
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Tasks of Grief
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Developmental Stages of Grief
- Garlinghouse Theory
- Impact of Suicide on a Response
- Trauma in the Individual
- Trauma – Impact on a Response
- Roles of Staff and Flight Team
- Safe Room Activities
- Safe Room Organization
- Safe Room Process
- Life Tribute
- Student Belongings and the Empty Desk
- Student Announcements
- Media and Communications
- Needs of Administration
- Needs of Staff
- Life Tribute
- Next Steps: Organizational Options
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Training crisis response team members is one truly amazing way to give back to your community.
Flight Team (crisis response team) members respond to and support campuses going through a crisis or tragedy. The Facilitator course will give you the foundation to train new team members annually, be an empathic Flight Team Leader, while also addressing any concerns you might have about the process.
Miko Price | School Counselor, Phoenix, AZ
Ready to get started?
FLIGHT TEAM TRAINING: $350 per participant
FACILITATOR TRAINING: $695 per participant
New cohorts announced soon.
State-wide training: If you have several ESAs in your state ready to join, we’ll set up training just for your group. Be in touch here and we’ll tailor it to your unique needs!
Recommended Material
Crisis Resource Manual, included for Flight Team Training
The Crisis Resource Manual is your “go to” guide for critical decisions and actions on crisis day. The crisis day checklist is in the front, making for quick access and ease of use when crisis strikes. The back of the book contains material helpful in planning for crisis response.
Training Manual, $55 for attendees
We highly recommend that this be used with the Crisis Resource Manual. Each chapter covers a different content area, and some chapters have exercises designed to help participants become more aware of their own issues from past experiences.
Safe Room Book, $18
This book covers all dimensions of facilitating Safe Rooms — those nurturing spaces set aside for students who are in more profound grief following the death of a peer. Topics include philosophy, room set-up, rules and behavior management, activities and much more.