Five Day Instructor Certification Training Program

An effective trainer can stand before a large audience, process multiple questions and direct a group towards learning the task at hand, while maintaining a cohesive group dynamic.

No wonder, good trainers are also excellent crisis intervenors.

Become certified to teach a two day workshop on verbal intervention and verbal restraints.

Plus!!!

To receive certification and insure instructor quality you will be mentored during your first workshop presentation.

Learn The two day curriculum

Facilitation skills

• -- Keeping the group on task
• -- Creating a fun learning environment
• -- Processing role-plays

Instructing skills

• -- Setting up your classroom experience.
• -- Organizing structured activities

Join in the camaraderie of learning. Instructor candidates enjoy the numerous opportunities to instruct throughout the five day workshop. Let us help you move through presentation anxiety and onto the rewards of becoming a teacher/trainer.

The mentoring component insures quality After completing the five day training, new instructors will be mentored by a certified Response trainer during their first two day workshop!

The mentoring component provides hands-on theoretical and technical support for new trainers. Response offers one of the most comprehensive instructor trainings in crisis intervention.

More than four instructors may be mentored at the same time. Mentoring sites are mutually agreed upon by Response and the contracting agency.

New Lesson Plans and Yearly Refreshers Maintain certification by attending yearly 1 day refreshers where you will be:

• -- Reviewing the curriculum
• -- Learn a new lesson plan to integrate into your on going crisis intervention model working with trauma survivors
• -- Cross Cultural Counseling
• -- Anger Management
• -- Debriefing after a critical incident
• -- Isms and their impact on crisis interventions
• -- Teambuilding

A written and practical exam is given at the end of the five day training.

This in depth course would benefit everyone from administrators to direct care staff. Having an in-house trainer is a cost effective measure allowing you to provide on going trainings, In-house trainers are role models and leaders for staff and clients.