Training Classes

• The "Why"
• The "What"
• The "How"

• The Basics of Disaster
• Working in a Disaster Zone
• Successful Teams
• Disaster is About People

The Experience of Disaster

• The Survivors
• The Experience and the Trauma

Bringing in the Presence of Christ

• You Can Make the Difference
• Protocol for Ministry

• Primary and Secondary Survivors and Traumatic Stress
• How About You? Are You Prepared?
• Mitigation: Healthy Volunteers and Resiliency
• After the Disaster

• Training in disaster response skills, such as fire safety, light search and rescue, team organization, and disaster medical operations
• Approximately 24 hours of training

• 47 hour course under the International Fellowship of Chaplains
• Includes training in trauma, depression, grief and loss, PTSD, and much more

• Know the post-disaster resources available in your community
• Learn how to help disaster survivors through the FEMA Individual Assistance program

• A table-top exercise based on a realistic disaster scenario
• Experience the decision making necessary in a disaster situation
• Evaluate your readiness, the need for cooperation, creative problem solving, and enhance your preparedness for response

• Keys to getting them and keeping them
• How to develop a healthy program for the benefit of both volunteers and the organization
• Learn the characteristics of organizations who effectively engage volunteers