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Georgia Disaster Behavioral Health Field Response Training
June 29, 2023 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
Helping Those Who Help: Delivering Field Response Training that Creates Impact
The Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities is offering this free training which covers the following topics:
- Short segment on the National Incident Management System
- The biology of stress and its impact on behavior
- Initial disaster mental health response
- Needs assessment and the FEMA Crisis Counseling Program
- Information on psychological first aid interventions
- Triage assessment and referral
- Self-care.
Target audience:
Public Health Workers, Clinical Staff, Facilities Management, First Responders
Events:
- Thursday, June 29, 2023
- Thursday, July 27, 2023
- 10:00am – 12:00pm
- Virtual (Microsoft Teams
*Please click on the date above that you would like to register for. You are only required to attend one offering.
Contact Kalie Burke, with questions: 404-416-2829 or Kalie.Burke@dbhdd.ga.gov.
Purpose
To provide basic information and skills that prepare disaster behavioral health responders to meet the practical and emotional needs of disaster survivors and the people who come to their aid.
Objectives
- To identify the fundamental principles of the emergency response structure
- To compare standard mental health treatment with disaster mental health response
- To discuss the processes and interventions appropriate for disaster mental health response
- To construct a personal system of disaster self-care
- To practice skills learned through participation in a simulation event