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First Responder Courses

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

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.

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.

Corrections Officer Specific Courses

Crisis Communication, Trauma, Suicide Prevention, and Self-Care
Deemed Best Practice by New Mexico Department of Health and a required course for every correction officer in New Mexico

This is a 4-hour training for corrections officers to assist with interactions with detainees affected by mental health and substance use disorders and best practices for working with these detainees. 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 the reduction of stigma about mental health and substance use, and improve interactions that occur between corrections officers and detainees. Nurstead believes the ability to identify mental health and substance use allows a better understanding of how and when to use what tactics. Resolving these interactions, quickly and effectively, reduces the stress and trauma for officers and reduces the impact of those interactions on officer mental health. This training is designed to teach key factors and techniques to aid in suicide intervention and prevention for both detainees and officers.

This course has an underlying core focus overlooked in most crisis intervention training correctional officers attend, a focus on the officer and the impact the daily interactions, stress, and trauma experienced in correctional settings can have on officers. Research indicates that correctional officers experience significantly higher suicide rates compared to the general population and other professions, and they also face a greater risk of substance abuse due to the chronic stress and traumatic nature of their work environment; often experiencing higher levels of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) than even military veterans. Due to these findings, Nurstead’s course looks at the complex trauma in correctional work, the stress experienced by officers, and how to address self-care and talk to other officers about the topic. Talking is a tactical tool, know when and how to use that tool to save lives.

Mental Health and Substance Use for Corrections Officers
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. This course is a great addition to Crisis Communication, Trauma, Suicide Prevention, and Self-Care to expand the understanding of what symptoms are being experienced by detainees and inmates and gaining a better understanding of how to use the crisis deescalation skills taught in that course.

Mental Health Professional Courses

Nurstead can provide CEUs to Social Workers, Counselors, Peer Supports, and other mental health professionals.

Crisis Communication and De-escalation for Clinicians and Paraprofessionals
The hardest thing for most professionals is crisis situations and using the skills we have in conjunction with additional tools we have yet to learn to address crisis situations and deescalate individuals effectively. This course covers the basic tools and tactics that are used by effective Mobile Crisis Teams Clinicians. This 4-hour course teaches basic crisis communication and intervention skills and is a great foundation course for all staff as it gives them the tools to resolve most escalated situations experienced in an outpatient or inpatient treatment setting.

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 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 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.

Creating Strong and Simple Documentation
Documentation is generally the biggest struggle for therapists, paraprofessionals, and the companies they work for, but it doesn’t have to be. This course is designed to take the dread of documentation from pain and problem, to simplistic (we wouldn’t claim pleasure, but that would’ve read well.) This course covers assessment and evaluation notes on topics of presenting problem and case formulation for clinicians and treatment plans, individual, couple, family, and group notes for clinicians, peers, and other paraprofessionals.

Military Specific Courses

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.

NARCAN for Military
As certified NARCAN trainers in the state of New Mexico, Nurstead trainers have taught 1000’s of individuals how to administer NARCAN and in connection with Cannon AFB Security Forces developed a training specific to the needs of Security Forces, Military Police, and other Military Professionals and this training has been provided to 100s of Airmen and Soldiers.

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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.

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