Upcoming grin classes
April 7-9, 2025
(Monday-Wednesday)
Presented by: Durham County EMS
Instructor: Helen Tripp
Location
Bethesda Fire/EMS
May 20-22
(Monday-Wednesday)
Presented by: Eagles Response
Instructor: Forest Willis
Location
Lewisville Fire Dept.
June 2025
(Date TBD)
Presented by: Eagles Response
Instructor: Forest Willis
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Location
Askewville Bethel Assembly of God
What is grin?
"GRIN" is a combination of 2 ICISF classes: Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention (taught by ICISF-approved instructors). You can read below for more information about these classes. GRIN is a combination of these 2 classes, taught over 3 days. Upon completion, students will receive certificates for both classes. GRIN is taught in-person and virtually.
Assisting Individuals in Crisis
Course Description: Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; rather, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention which requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid”.
This program is designed to teach participants the fundamentals of, and a specific protocol for, individual crisis intervention. This course is designed for anyone who desires to increase their knowledge of individual (one-on-one) crisis intervention techniques in the fields of Business & Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
• Psychological crisis and psychological crisis
intervention
• Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
• Critical incident stress management
• Evidence-based practice
• Basic crisis communication techniques
• Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
• Putative and empirically derived mechanisms
• SAFER-Revised model
• Suicide intervention
• Risks of iatrogenic “harm”
Group Crisis Intervention
Course Description: Designed to present the core elements of a comprehensive, systematic, and multi-component crisis intervention
curriculum, the Group Crisis Intervention course will prepare participants to understand a wide range of crisis intervention services.
Fundamentals of Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM) will be outlined, and participants will leave with the knowledge and tools to provide several group crisis interventions, specifically demobilizations, defusing and the Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD). The need for appropriate follow-up services and referrals, when necessary, will also be discussed.
This course is designed for anyone in the fields of Business & Industry Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
• Relevant research findings
• Small group crisis interventions
• Relevant recommendations for practice
• Adverse outcome associated with crisis
intervention.
• Incident assessment
• Reducing risks
• Strategic intervention planning
• Critical Incident Stress Debriefing (CISD)
• “Resistance, resilience, recovery” continuum
• Large group crisis interventions