Become a CMI Certified Flight Team Trainer
25 – Comprehensive Videos
35 – Activities and Resources
100’s of Ways to Keep Your Team Strong!
Instill Peace of Mind
Participants will leave your training prepared to respond to a range of school tragedies and crises: deaths, homicides, natural disasters, and more. A number of organizational options can be considered (district, regional, community) so you can maximize team strength.
Learn, Collaborate, Prepare
Each session is includes content and small group collaboration. Trainers lead activities to build skills. Using our video series, you’ll be ready to help schools and districts build an organized team and a plan of action for whatever comes their way.
Training Overview
- You can schedule training anywhere for any time you wish
- You organize the time. You emphasize what matters for your unique needs
- Videos come with activities to take knowledge into skills
- Trainers have the option of attending mentoring workshops with Cheri Lovre
- Trainers will sign contracts that agree to fidelity to program use and design.
Who Should Facilitate
Best if trainers have attended Cheri’s Lovre’s 3-Day Flight Team Training, but most important is a passion for this work and for training and supporting others.
This is part of a larger program that includes:
What’s
Included
- 20+ hours of training using videos created by Cheri Lovre
- Access to all handouts and materials for trainings
- Direct access to Cheri during “Office Hours”
- 24/7 video access to training videos and resources
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Training your district’s 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 district staff, students and their families when going through a crisis or tragedy. This 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
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Interested? Get in touch!
Upcoming On-site Workshop ~ Become a CMI Certified Trainer
Vancouver BC
Late fall, 2026
Interested? Message us here!
You can start any time!
Purchase the program: CMI supports this video series as well as complementary resources and courses, available 24/7 for all district staff.
Attend the Mentor Workshops: Every year we schedule live on-site workshops for those who have a passion for this and want to take a deep dive into strengthening their personal capacity for crisis work.
Send us a message about your interest here.
Material Covered
Orientation to Crisis Response
Overview of Crisis Response
Flow Chart of Crisis Day
Grief
Tasks of Grief
Developmental Stages of Grief
Suicide
Garlinghouse Theory
Impact of Suicide on a Response
Trauma
Trauma in the Individual
Trauma – Impact on a Response
Roles of Staff & Flight Team, Safe Room Activities
Roles of Staff and Flight Team
Safe Room Activities
Safe Room
Safe Room Organization
Safe Room Process
Life Tribute & Student Belongings, The Empty Desk
Life Tribute
Student Belongings and the Empty Desk
Media & Communications
Student Announcements
Media and Communications
Needs of Staff
Needs of Administration
Needs of Staff
Life Tribute and Next Steps
Life Tribute
Next Steps: Organizational Options
Recommended Material
Crisis Resource Manual
This is the golden resource to have at hand. All training, response and recovery starts right here, on page one. Designed to guide your response seamlessly with notations for amplified information on each checklist item, referring you to the exact page you need next. This is the “must have!” resource.
Training Manual, discounted 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
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.