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JOIN THE PROGRAMWhether you're a healthcare professional, educator, emergency responder, or community worker, our PFA training prepares you to effectively address and reduce the impact of traumatic experiences.
What is Psychological First Aid (PFA)?
Psychological First Aid (PFA) is a lifeline in turmoil. It's a compassionate method providing immediate emotional and practical support to individuals in distress. PFA equips you with the skills to stabilize, comfort, and support, aiding recovery in the aftermath of traumatic events.
PFA provides initial care and support to individuals immediately following a traumatic event or crisis. It helps stabilize their emotional and psychological state, preventing further stress escalation.
PFA is designed to be applied by non-specialists, making it accessible to a wide range of people. This inclusivity ensures that more individuals can offer support in emergencies.
Through practical support and guidance, PFA helps individuals strengthen their resilience and cope with their immediate situation, facilitating their recovery process.
PFA is adaptable to diverse cultural contexts, respecting the affected individuals' beliefs and practices. This cultural sensitivity makes it an effective tool in various global settings, ensuring appropriate and respectful support.
Psychological First Aid vs.
Mental Health First Aid
Why join?
Empower yourself with the ability to make a real difference. Our PFA training offers invaluable tools for effective crisis response, helping you provide immediate support and comfort in challenging situations.
Learn from seasoned professionals who bring real-world experience and knowledge, ensuring you receive high-quality, practical training, with tailored coaching and supervision.
Upon completion, receive certification that enhances your professional credibility and showcases your commitment to mental health support.
Gain hands-on skills for providing effective psychological support in a variety of challenging situations, making you an invaluable asset in emergencies or crises.
Equipped with PFA skills, you'll be poised to make a significant, positive impact in your community, offering support where it's most needed and fostering resilience among those affected by trauma or stress.
Evidence
Research worldwide supports PFA in reducing symptoms of anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress, while significantly improving mood, safety, and a sense of control among all age groups.
with PFA
Unlock the power of PFA to alleviate anxiety, depression, and posttraumatic stress. Studies show PFA's remarkable ability to not only reduce symptoms of mental distress but also to significantly improve mood and foster feelings of safety, connectedness, and control in both youth and adults.
Elevate your ability to respond to acute distress with our PFA training. Research confirms that this training enhances knowledge in psychosocial responses and equips individuals with essential PFA skills.
While most PFA training programs are brief, ours is designed to ensure proficiency and effectiveness, equipping both professionals and non-professionals in mental health with the skills needed to make a real difference.
Who is this training for?
This training is ideal for healthcare professionals, emergency responders, educators, and community workers. Anyone committed to supporting others during crises, or seeking to strengthen their community's resilience, will find this program useful.
Nurses, doctors, and other healthcare professionals can use PFA to offer immediate emotional support to patients and families in crisis, enhancing their patient care.
Police, firefighters, and EMTs often encounter people in distress. PFA training can equip them with the skills to provide initial psychological support during emergencies.
Teachers, counselors, and administrators can apply PFA techniques to support students and colleagues during traumatic events or high-stress situations in educational settings.
Individuals working in community centers, non-profits, and social services can use PFA to help people who are facing various challenges, contributing to stronger, more resilient communities.
Program
Structure
Our comprehensive training program is designed to equip you with the essential PFA skills.
Upon successful completion of our blended course, you will receive a certification valid for two years, empowering you to apply your PFA skills across diverse settings.
Our Group Training Program is designed for teams and organizations seeking to collectively enhance their mental health support capabilities. This program fosters a collaborative learning environment, enabling participants to engage in interactive group activities, discussions, and role-plays. It's ideal for creating a shared understanding and approach to mental health support within teams, enhancing the collective ability to address psychological distress in various settings.
This public program brings together individuals in a small group setting, providing an opportunity to learn and practice ADAPT-based strategies alongside peers from diverse backgrounds. While each participant brings their unique perspective, the shared learning environment fosters a sense of community and mutual support. This program is ideal for anyone seeking to develop mental health support skills on a personal level, and to apply these in their daily lives and immediate communities.
Frequently Asked Questions
Our training programs integrate a variety of globally recognized models to cater to different professional needs. For healthcare and frontline workers, we incorporate models like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT)-based trauma-informed care approaches. Educators benefit from CBT and SEL (Social Emotional Learning) methodologies. Community workers and peer supporters engage with community-based models and motivational interviewing techniques. For managers and leaders, our training includes elements from leadership coaching models and organizational psychology. This diverse range ensures that our approach is aligned with the highest standards of mental health education and practice across various sectors.
We customize our training by employing adaptive program design to meet the unique needs of each professional group, from foundational skills for community workers to advanced leadership training for managers, ensuring relevance and effectiveness. For example, for community workers, we focus on foundational skills using principles from community-based models and peer-support methodologies. Educators' training is tailored with SEL (Social Emotional Learning) and trauma-informed educational practices. Healthcare and frontline workers engage with advanced modules and crisis intervention techniques. Leadership training for managers integrates organizational psychology and leadership coaching models. This adaptive and multi-modal approach ensures our programs are not only relevant and effective for each professional group but also responsive to their evolving needs and challenges.
Our programs emphasize experiential learning through interactive workshops and on-the-job training, blending theory with practical application to equip participants with skills they can immediately implement. Our trainers are MDs and PhDs (trained at world renowned universities and hospitals e.g., Columbia University, Harvard Medical School) with extensive expertise and experience. They are leaders in their fields and developers of innovative mental health treatment models.
Absolutely. Our programs are designed for scalability and can be adapted to fit the needs of large organizations, providing consistent and quality training across all levels of staff. We have helped 150+ organizations worldwide design and implement training programs at the nationwide level.
Yes, we provide ongoing small group coaching and support post-training to reinforce learning, address challenges, and ensure continuous professional development.
We conduct comprehensive competence assessments and detailed progress tracking for each participant, providing a holistic view of their learning journey and ensuring they meet the desired skill and knowledge benchmarks.
The people we serve are at the heart of everything we do.
Elevate global workforces, strengthen community well-being and mental health.
I think the most important take-home message is regarding the effective use of the 5 pillars, as well as the use of sunny/rainy thoughts with our students.
Very useful training for Primary Care Providers, especially non-doctors. The program can help treat mild to moderate symptoms of common mental health problems, which account for the majority of cases we see.
Developing language to identify their emotions is crucially important. A lot of the time, with students who have suffered trauma, too much emotion is automatically identified as being negative for them.
