Training to Prepare Your Staff for Any Crisis
Our “Flight Team” Training provides 20 different areas of focus and gives a comprehensive foundation to those who will help schools recover when crisis or tragedy strikes.
Train Your Team
Participants will leave this training prepared to respond to a range of school tragedies and crises: deaths, homicides, suicides, natural disasters and more. A number of organizational options (district, regional, community) are presented to maximize team strength depending on resource availability in your locale.
Intended Audience: See below.
Live Zoom Option
Instead of having one big district training every few years, our Zoom option allows you to train new hires each year, making budgeting much more manageable. Districts sending ten or more qualify for group rates. All participants are required to be on their own laptops with functioning web cams. Inquire here.
On-Site Option
We’re beginning to do on-site trainings again, so check with us if you’d like an in-person training. We’re able to take a deeper dive and create more opportunities for skill-building. This runs three consecutive days. We usually cap at about 50 participants. Administrators attend two half-days. Team members attend all three. You are welcome to invite other districts to fill your training. Inquire here.
Hybrid Option
Instead of having one big district training every few years, our Zoom option allows you to train new hires each year, making budgeting much more manageable. Districts sending ten or more qualify for group rates. All participants are required to be on their own laptops with functioning web cams. Inquire here.
Training Structure
- Training will be 20 hours (either 7 sessions 2.75 hours long or ten 2-hour sessions).
- Each session includes large group learning, break-out sessions using handouts, and large group Q&A.
- Weekly assignments may be given to be completed in small group Zoom sessions at times of your small 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
A well-trained district crisis response team is one truly amazing way to give back to your families and community.
Flight Team (crisis response team) members respond to and support a campus going through a crisis or tragedy. This course will give you the foundation team members need to respond with confidence.
Miko Price | School Counselor, Phoenix, AZ
Ready to get started?
Training is $350 per team member.
We start a new cohort each fall, and spring, and possibly winter.
Fall Session: Weekly on Tuesdays
Sept. 27 – Nov. 8
10 am – 12:45 pm Pacific Time
Winter Session: Weekly on Tuesdays
January 31 – February 28
10 am – 12:30 pm Pacific Time
Questions? info@cmionline.org
BOCES, IUs, ESDs and other Education Services Agencies: When your districts are ready for the next level of preparedness, we’ll set up training for your group. Be in touch here and we’ll tailor it to your unique needs!
Recommended Material
Crisis Resource Manual, included
The Crisis Resource Manual is your “go to” guide for critical decisions and actions on crisis day. Critical content is in the front, making for quick access and ease of use when crisis strikes. This manual may or may not be included in your registration fee, depending on sponsor of training.
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.