Crisis Ally is Compassion-based Support Skills for the New Crisis Workforce. --- NOW ONLINE MONTHLY
Certificated Crisis Ally Skills training, based in the Growing Through crisis support model is now open to communities worldwide.
This skills-based seminar is specially keyed for social service and healthcare staff, volunteers, outreach, public safety and mobile crisis workers. Designed to provide confidence in engagement, critical incident management, prevention of violence and suicide in the spirit of growth and compassion. The course totals 20 hours, comprised of four (4) Live Skills Sessions and 8 hours of self-paced online content and learning exercises at our unique Learning Management Platform.
Crisis Ally training has been approved for professional including 988 and mobile crisis providers throughout the state of Illinois and authorized in multiple agencies across the US. Related experience is recommended but not required for registration.
ONLINE CLASSES and IN-PERSON INTENSIVES FOR AGENCIES, TEAMS and Community providers AVAILABLE NOW: CONTACTUS
Strengths-Based, Trauma-Informed, Recovery-Driven
RealSkills For Mental Health,
Crisis Support and Suicide Prevention
Crisis Ally is highly regarded by both incoming and experienced professionals in the mental health field. This course will supply you with confidence, knowledge, and skills to support anyone on what can be the worst day of their lives.
Confidence
- Ally with someone in distress on a Crisis Ally basis
- Encounter intensity and listen to suffering
- Discuss difficult issues including violence, trauma, and suicide
- Offer shared meaningful experience when and where it is truly helpful
- Show up in the spirit of compassion for others on the worst day of their lives
Knowledge
- “Less-tening” and Compassionate Curiosity
- Strengths focused, recovery and phenomenological language related to mental health and suicide
- Offering and the Vice of Advice
- How to Engage with Intense Situations
- Rolling With Intensity
- The Suicide Question
Core Concepts
- Presence and Use of Self at intense times
- The Growth/Recovery model of crisis and distress
- Crisis Ally principles and values
- Alliance and Meaningful Shared Experience
- The 5 D’s, The 5 P’s, the Big R and the 3 Ls
Skills and Tools
- Meaningful Shared Experience
- Dignity Growth Language
- Statement of Intention
- Positive Inhibition/WAIT
- Open Questions
- Meaning Reflections
- SIFTing/Gleaning
- Offering lived experience intentionally
Everyone Can Hurt
Anyone Can Help
Be a Crisis Ally Today
“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” ~Abraham Maslow