|
Coping With Deployments: Psychological First Aid for Military Families, is now available. The course, offered free of charge, is open to military family members of active duty, Reserve and National Guard forces, as well as veterans and their families.
Introduction:
The Red Cross developed the course to address the stress and strain of deployments on military family members to include spouses, children, parents, siblings and significant others of service members and veterans. The course is taught by actively licensed Red Cross mental health professionals. The Red Cross worked closely with subject matter experts from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines, to include active duty, National Guard and Reserve commands, in development of the final curriculum.
Course Information:
The course provides significant information on resiliency strategies for adults and children. Resiliency is the process of how one quickly recovers from adversity or change. The course also explains the easy steps involved in psychological first aid which involves providing immediate support to people in distress. A significant resource and referral section in the course helps families identify resources that can provide additional assistance to them quickly.
The existing Disaster Services Psychological First Aid (PFA) course is used to teach Red Cross Disaster Services volunteers how to deal with the stress of being on a major disaster relief operation for themselves and others. By leveraging that Red Cross expertise, the new course will enable military family members to provide better emotional support to one another and other military families.
Please call Rebecca Justice for more information at 603-889-6664 or email: rebecca@nashua.redcross.org
-
What will I learn in the course? The course provides significant information on Resiliency strategies for adults and children, as well as explaining the steps in performing PFA for others under stress. It has an Adult Section, a Children’s Section and a significant Resource and Referral Section.
- How long is the course? The course lasts 4 hours when taken in one session but can be broken into an Adult session which lasts 2 1/2 hours or a Children’s session which lasts 1 ½ hours.
- Who teaches this course? The course is taught by actively licensed Red Cross mental health professionals who have been specifically trained to teach this course.
- Who can take the course? Family members of Reserve, National Guard, and active duty service-members to include spouses, older children, parents, siblings, and significant others, as well as service members who take it with their family. Veterans and their family members are also eligible to take the course. It is not available to the general public.
- Why this course? It is the only national level course specifically designed for military family members, including parents and significant others, that bridges all lines of service and provides hands on tools to help families cope with deployment.
- Can my Family Readiness Group have the whole course or parts of the course taught to it? Yes it is available to be taught at Family Readiness Group meetings, Family Day events, briefings prior to, during and after deployments and at other activities as requested.
Downloadable brochure....
|
