Advanced Crisis Intervention for First Responders
Advanced Crisis Intervention is a 40-Hour course designed to teach law enforcement officers, fire, and EMS the needed skills to interact with community members more effectively through the identification of mental health, substance use, and intellectual disabilities v. criminal intent and how to respond to situations based on these specifics. Crisis de-escalation, active listening, suicide intervention, and other communication skills are taught in this course to assist first responders with improved relations and increased safety for first responders.
Advanced Crisis Intervention Training: For Law Enforcement Interactions with People with Mental Illness, Intellectual Disabilities, and Substance Use Disorders.
This course is designed to teach law enforcement officers the needed skills to interact with community members more effectively though identification of mental health, substance use, and intellectual disabilities v. criminal intent and how to respond to situations based on these specifics. [Full Description Here]
New Mexico Law Enforcement Course# NM230288
Basic Crisis Intervention for First Responders
Basic Crisis Intervention is an 8-Hour course designed to teach law enforcement officers, fire, and EMS the needed skills to interact with community members more effectively through the identification of mental health, substance use, and intellectual disabilities v. criminal intent and how to respond to situations based on these specifics. Crisis de-escalation, active listening, suicide intervention, and other communication skills are taught in this course to assist first responders with improved relations and increased safety for first responders. This course is often taken by all officers in a department while the 40-hour may be a smaller group who specialize in mental health crisis or can be the first step in meeting the mental health requirements for police, fire, and EMS departments.
New Mexico Law Enforcement Course# NM230485
Basic Mental Health and Substance Use Disorders for First Responders
This 2-hour course is designed as a basic introduction or refresher on mental health for first responders. This course covers basic mental health terms and the signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use disorders. This course is a perfect refresher for law enforcement officers and other first responders each renewal cycle and is updated regularly to include current drug trends.
New Mexico Law Enforcement Course# NM230486
Mental Health and Substance Use within the Correctional Setting
This is a 4-hour training for corrections officers to assist with interactions with inmates affected by mental health and substance use disorders and best practices for working with these inmates. The purpose of this training is to increase knowledge and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders in the general public and incarcerated, assist with reduction of stigma about mental health and substance use, and improve interactions that occur between corrections officers and inmates who have mental health and/or substance use disorders.
Crisis Intervention and De-escalation for Clinicians and Peer Supports
This 40-hour course focuses on training social workers, counselors, psychologists, peer supports, and other professionals and paraprofessionals how to more effectively interact with individuals experiencing a mental health crisis, situational identification, and the skills need to intervene in crisis situations ranging from psychosis, suicide intervention, and more. In addition to teaching identification of signs and symptoms of mental health and substance use in crises, this course trains professionals and paraprofessionals in active listening, de-escalation, and intervention.
This course can also be paired with our Advanced or Basic Crisis Intervention for First Responders when creating Crisis Intervention Teams (CIT) or Mobile Crisis Teams. This added component assists mental health professionals and first responders in understanding the terminology of the other profession, the role of each profession in crisis situations, and how to effectively work together as a team.
Basic Crisis Communication for Military Police and Security Forces
Specifically designed for the role of defenders in the military, this 4- hour course focuses on creating a basic understanding of mental health and substance use as a foundation to build upon and a deeper instruction in the use of crisis communication and de-escalation. As Military Police, Security Forces, and Master at Arms working within the military system while addressing the same issues as civilian law enforcement creates special challenges and this course creates additional tools for use in the situations faced by military law enforcement.
Suicide Intervention for Clinicians and First Responders
Suicide intervention is a 3-hour course that is a focused course on intervention and assessment in crisis situations related to suicide. Items covered in this course are how to discuss suicide, what questions to ask, what language to use, and how to properly direct the conversation to get honest answers to difficult questions. This course is appropriate for mental health professionals, case managers, ER staff, peer supports, first responders, teachers, and other professionals.
Leadership for Police, Fire, and EMS Professionals
This 8-hour course focuses on two key elements, culture and leadership within high stress settings. In the area of culture this course is designed to help individuals assess the current culture within their department, understand that challenges faced, and creating a healthier culture within first responder units and departments. Additionally, this course focuses on core concepts of leadership and development of these characteristics within the high stress, high trauma settings that are first responder professions.
First Responder Trauma and Self-Care
This 4-hour course focuses on the complex trauma that first responders experience in the course of their work. Every day for first responders brings the potential to see a child draw their first breath as well as someone draw their last breath. With the ever-increasing trauma experienced by first responders, we have also seen increasing rates of depression, PTSD, and suicide accompanying those traumatic events. This course explores a cultural shift within law enforcement, fire, and EMS departments to reduce the impact of the traumas that are experienced, assist with shifting departmental culture, and how leadership can help save the lives of those who risk their life for the public.
First Responder Trauma and Self-Care with Peer Support
First responders face unique challenges in connection with the amount of stress and trauma they deal with each day in the course of their duties. These stresses and traumas paired with the perceived need to not discuss them or the belief what is seen should be easily accepted or ignored can lead to a culture where first responders lack self-care and lack professional connections with others to discuss what they have experienced and feel. 37% of the first responders surveyed for 2 primary studies had contemplated suicide nearly 10 times more than the typical American adult. This 12-hour course addresses the unique stresses and traumas, the culture, and self-care for first responders.
Additionally, this course assists with the creation of a peer support program that allows first responders to connect and address the emotions connected with the traumas and stresses of their role in protecting and serving as first responders.
Basic Mental Health and Substance Abuse
This course is taught in 4 and 8-hour options with a focus on increasing professionals’ understanding of mental health, substance use, and dual diagnosis. These courses cover the full spectrum of the DSM from mood disorders to psychotic disorders, personality disorders, and more. In the area of substances, this course will cover all the core classes of drugs as well as non-classified drugs. Connecting these two areas the 8-hour course discusses the way in which mental health and substance use can mimic each other, overlap in signs and symptoms, and the interplay between substance use and mental health in dual diagnosis and self-medicating situations.
Mental Health and De-escalation Training
This 4-hour training is designed to assist professionals such as nurses, doctors, teachers, and other professionals in working with individuals affected by mental health and substance use disorders. The purpose of this training is to increase knowledge and understanding of mental health and substance use disorders in the general public and reduce stigma about mental health and substance use, and improve interactions with these individuals through the use of active listening and other de-escalation techniques.
Advanced Drug Education 8-Hour Course
This 8-hour course covers all classes of drugs and non-classified drugs with emphasis on how these drugs impact an individual’s brain as well as signs and symptoms of short-term and long-term use and intoxication. This course is appropriate for medical, mental health, law enforcement, and fire or EMS professionals and will assist in daily interactions with individuals who are under the influence of drugs or alcohol.
Company Culture and Leadership
Building a New Corporate Culture
Leadership 1, 2, 3: Growing New Leaders
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Nurstead Consulting Services’ trainers are able to provide continuing education credits in numerous states for many different professions including : Law Enforcement, Social Workers, Therapists, Drug and Alcohol Counselors, Nurses, and many more. If you are curious if we are able to provide continuing education credits for your profession and state, please contact us directly and inquire.
