Crisis situations can be overwhelming and difficult to handle, particularly due to the changes that can be common after a brain injury. A person's actions, feelings, and thoughts may not be the same as prior to their injury, making de-escalation and grounding techniques essential but difficult. BIANC offers in person brain injury information at Crisis Intervention Team (CIT) Training to law enforcement and emergency responders throughout the state of North Carolina. This online crisis management and de-escalation course training strives to promote positive interactions between individuals with brain injury and first responders including law enforcement, emergency response staff, and firefighters in crises by investigating the brain, hearing from survivors and family members, and presenting practical scenarios and strategies. Objectives include: 1) Describe what a brain injury is and the changes after brain injury; 2) Understand how brain injury can present in a crisis and the vulnerable populations to brain injury to be mindful of; 3 )Identify and utilize de-escalation techniques or strategies specific to individuals with a brain injury; and 4) Discuss potential scenarios that these strategies can be utilized in to promote positive interaction.
This training is narrated by Senior Training Officer MJ Macario or ‘Mac’. Working for the Raleigh Police Department at the Raleigh Police Training Center, he has prepared hundreds of recruits for the rigors of police work and instructed existing law enforcement officers at the local, state and federal level in a variety of subjects from edged weapon tactics to verbal de-escalation techniques. Mac has been Wake County’s Crisis Intervention Team’s lead de-escalation trainer for nearly a decade. He trains police officers how to de-escalate a person with mental illness or an intellectual/developmental disability when that person is in crisis.
Registration is required but the course if free! Visit www.bianc.net or www.biancteach.net for more information.
29 окт 2019
