This training is intended to inform the community and professionals about the services that the Keystone Crisis Intervention Team offers. KCIT utilizes a community care approach, called Group Crisis Intervention (GCI), to support crime victims and their communities throughout Pennsylvania in their recovery from traumatic events. This training illustrates how trauma affects individuals and their communities and how KCIT intervention works to educate, empower, and restore connection.

Length: 1 hour
Format: One session

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Learn the Group Crisis Intervention (GCI) Model and become equipped with the skills to empower victims of trauma after a crisis. Group Crisis Intervention addresses the gap and the need that exists for a community to receive support after first responders leave and before beginning therapy.

During a GCI a group is led by a facilitator through a series of questions using time progression—starting in the past, present, and then future. Questions aim to help participants sort through their experience of the event, sensory impact, reactions, and what they continue to hold as a result of the trauma. The group process assists in restoring community connection and the feeling that “I am not alone” in my suffering.

It is important to understand that a GCI is not therapy and is a one-time intervention.

Length: 12 hours
Format: Offered in four, 3 hour sessions

Get Deployment Ready! The first half of this training provides review of the Group Crisis Intervention Model, roles and procedures. The second half of the training provides live practice of skills with the specialized coaching and attention of a Certified KCIT Trainer. The overall goal is to assure confidence and competency so that you are ready for deployment.

Length: 3 hours
Format: Offered in two, 1.5 hour sessions

Giving the news that someone has died is an extremely delicate and important act because sharing this news, irrevocably opens the first chapter in an individual’s lifelong grief narrative. The way the news is delivered shapes and impacts the journey forward. This training delivers a trauma-informed approach of how to help your client process death and will give you the skills to feel confident in this process. Dealing with death can be a part of anyone’s job whether it looks like physically knocking on the door and delivering a formal death notification or advocating and assisting clients with the death of their loved one.

Length: 5 hours
Format: Offered in two, 2.5 hour sessions

When clients feel helpless and vulnerable in their emotional experience, they may find themselves asking the question, “What’s wrong with me?” This training will empower you with the education and tools to validate and normalize their experience by redirecting their question from “What wrong with me? “to “What happened to me?”

You will gain a comprehensive and nuanced answer to this question by understanding trauma, its different symptoms, what happens to the brain as a result of trauma, and resources for healing. Being equipped to share this information with your clients will help empower them to regain a sense of control through knowledge and understanding over their experience.

Length: 3 hours
Format: Offered in two, 1.5 hour sessions

Trauma often leaves us split in two. There is life before the trauma and life after it. Living in the after we are left to cope with a world that no longer makes sense as it did before. Feeling lost and disconnected, many of us look for answers to help us heal.

This training will look at spirituality as the distilled components shared and found in any faith tradition or community, which are meaning, purpose, and connection. Tools and practices will be given to develop these three components.

Length: 1.5
Format: Offered in one session