NOVA TRAINING
NOVA COMMUNITY CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM TRAINING PROGRAM OVERVIEW™
WHAT IS NOVA TRAINING?
Kellie is currently the Crisis Response Training Manager. The NOVA Community Crisis Response Team Training™ has over thirty years of evidence-informed and field-tested best practices as a crisis management utility that includes trauma mitigation and education protocols. With over ten thousand trained in North America and internationally, NOVA CRT training is an effective tool that can be instantly scaled-up for mass-casualty critical incidents.
A NOVA Community Crisis Response Team is a group of individuals specifically trained to provide trauma mitigation, education and emotional first aid in the aftermath of a critical incident, either small-scale or mass-casualty. NOVA CCRT™ members each have a minimum of twenty-four hours of skill-based, field-tested training. Most teams have extensive training and experience in the widest range of traumatic events, from mass shootings to natural disasters. Since 1986, NOVA has been involved in hundreds of both small-scale critical incidents as well as mass-casualty disasters. NOVA CCRT™ services that have been requested include hurricanes, tornadoes, fires, mass shootings, and as large as the four sites of 9/11 all done in an effort to help stabilize members of their respective communities.
BASIC LEVEL, NOVA CRISIS RESPONSE TEAM TRAINING™
NOVA’s Basic CCRT training consist of twenty-four hours of techniques and protocols for providing crisis intervention to traumatized individuals. The training focuses on the fundamentals of crisis and trauma, and how to adapt to basic techniques to individuals and groups in this area also known as psychological first aid. Thousands who confront human crisis – victim advocates, law enforcement officer and others – have completed the course and recommend it to others.
The Virtual Basic CCRT Training will consist of 20 hours of online instruction (4 hours a day, over five days) and 4 hours of Self-guided Learning.
For additional information on NOVA Community Crisis Response Team Training™ at crt@trynova.org