View our available online workshops. Or, if your company would like to schedule training for your employees, please call our office at (573) 986-6879.

Course Offerings:

• Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) Training
• Disaster Recovery Begins Before a Disaster
• Psychological First Aid

Disaster Recovery Begins Before a Disaster

Why bother?
Disasters don’t happen here.
Even if you think you are not in a disaster-prone area, something like a chemical tanker truck overturning can prevent you and your employees from getting to your facility. 

Even if a flood doesn’t put your business under water, customers and supplies may not be able to get to you. Power outages, brown-outs or surges can affect your daily business operations.

Many disasters, like wind storms, tornadoes and earthquakes, can strike quickly and with little or no warning.

No business should risk operating without a disaster plan.
Reports vary, as many as 40 percent of small businesses do not reopen after a major disaster like a flood, tornado or earthquake. These shattered businesses were unprepared for a disaster; they had no plan or backup systems.

What can I do?
Find out which natural and technological hazards can happen in your area.  Get information about how to prepare your employees and clients to respond to possible hazards and provide help. 

What You’ll Learn

• How to develop a disaster response plan
• Ways to reduce potential damage to your organization
• How to prepare employees and clients for disasterLifesaving training available to you and your employees
• Ways to help your employees prepare their homes and families for disaster which enables them to come to work
• And much more!

October 16, 2008
8:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Missouriana Room, University Center

For more information or to register:
(573) 335-9471
jkoehler@semoredcross.org

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Psychological First Aid

When you work with people during and after a disaster, you are working with people who may be having reactions of confusion, fear, hopelessness, sleeplessness, anxiety, grief, shock, guilt, shame, and loss of confidence in themselves and others. Your early contacts with them can help alleviate their painful emotions and promote hope and healing. Your goal in providing this psychological first aid is to promote an environment of safety, calm, connectedness, self-efficacy, empowerment, and hope.

This course consists of five separate segments and a self-review questionnaire which is completed after the training has been completed. The course provides a framework for understanding the factors that affect stress responses in disaster relief workers and the clients they serve. In addition, it provides practical suggestions about what you can say and do as you practice the principles of Psychological First Aid.

After completing this training, participants will be able to—

• Describe how to recognize the signs of stress in clients, co-workers and themselves.
• Apply psychological first aid principles in providing immediate support to people who may be experiencing stress.
• Describe how to obtain additional mental health support for themselves, co-workers and clients.

September 18, 2008
1:00 – 5:00 p.m.
Missouriana Room, University Center

For more information or to register:
(573) 335-9471
jkoehler@semoredcross.org

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