Ongoing – Disaster Relief Training Church Host
Do you want to equip your church leaders with Disaster Relief Training? To be a Foursquare church ready to respond when a disaster hits your community? Our team is currently scheduling ongoing DRT training events for this year.
Date: Ongoing, 16-hour course taught on two consecutive days.
Cost: $1000 to bring our trainers to your site. Some churches are ok to cover the expense. Some charge per student and others fundraise. We hope to see each church embrace the opportunity as part of equipping the saints for the work of the ministry.
Requirements:
- Identify a point person from your church who will work with the FDR Team with logistics and administration.
- Students need to be 18 years of age. As young as 16 years old if accompanied by a parent.
Interested? Contact: Fdrtraining@foursquare.org
Ongoing – CISM Assisting Individuals in Crisis Training Church Host
Is your church interested in hosting a CISM course to equip your church leaders better to respond to a crisis? Church Host requirements:
Contact: Fdrtraining@foursquare.org
Critical Incident Stress Management Course: Assisting Individuals in Crisis
Course Description: Crisis Intervention is NOT psychotherapy; instead, it is a specialized acute emergency mental health intervention that requires specialized training. As physical first aid is to surgery, crisis intervention is to psychotherapy. Thus, crisis intervention is sometimes called “emotional first aid.” The course is designed to teach the fundamentals of protocol for individual crisis intervention and to increase the knowledge of one-on-one crisis intervention in the fields of Business + Industry, Crisis Intervention, Disaster Response, Education, Emergency Services, Employee Assistance, Healthcare, Homeland Security, Mental Health, Military, Spiritual Care, and Traumatic Stress.
Program Highlights:
- Psychological crisis and psychological crisis intervention
- Resistance, resiliency, recovery continuum
- Critical incident stress management
- Evidence-based practice
- Basic crisis communication techniques
- Common psychological and behavioral crisis reactions
- Putative and empirically-derived mechanisms
- SAFER-Revised model
- Suicide intervention
- Risks of iatrogenic “harm”
Continuing Education Information:
Two-Day Course/13 Contact Hours: 1.3 General CEUs from University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Dept. of Emergency Health Services Professional and Continuing Education (PACE)
*Based on a formula of 1 Continuing Education Unit for every ten contact/classroom hours.
*PLEASE NOTE: These hours only apply to courses offered at Live Training, Regional Trainings, Online Courses, and the World Congress.
Approved Instructor Courses: It is up to the Approved Instructors or sponsoring agency to apply for profession-specific Continuing Education units if they choose. Learn more on our CEU Information page at https://icisf.org/sections/education-training/ceu-information/
*Please check with your state licensing board before registration to see if they will accept the certificate of completion as a means for continuing education.
Certificate of Specialized Training Program: This course is a part of the Core Curriculum for the Certificate of Specialized Training Program.
Interested? Contact: Fdrtraining@foursquare.org
In-Person Disaster Relief Training | Grand Junction, Colorado
Date: April 26-27, 2024
Location: New Horizons Foursquare Church
641 Horizon Drive, Grand Junction , CO, 81506. Phone: 970-243-2484 / Website: nhgj.org.
Special Instructions/Recommended places to stay:
Local Airport: Grand Junction Regional (GJT)
Hotels nearby: DoubleTree by Hilton; Courtyard by Marriott; La Quinta; Castle Creek Manor (Bed & Breakfast)
Disaster Relief Training
FDR Trainers, Jay and Patty Donnelly will be teaching this in-person Disaster Relief Training. The goal is to equip leaders to respond and make a difference in disasters and crises. The Disaster Relief Training is a 16-hour course. The training is vital for anyone interested in assisting in a local, regional, or large-scale disaster, including serving with FEMA, State, County, and local disaster response teams. Training is mandatory for anyone wanting to help with Foursquare Disaster Relief teams at any level.
You will be instructed how to continue CISM, FEMA and other specialized disaster relief training. FDR Disaster Relief Training will provide a Certificate of completion for the 16 hours of FDR training. To be certified as an FDR responder, students must complete an online form after class verifying pastoral endorsement, a background check on file with their church, and an agreement with the standards in the Foursquare Child + Youth Protection Manual. This training and certification only apply to deployment through Foursquare Disaster Relief. We encourage each church to develop a local team and network with local First Responders so they can be available to work with their community emergency services when disaster strikes.
This Disaster Relief Training is broken up into two consecutive days.
Cost: $30 per participant
Please sign up by Sunday, April 24, 2024.
Schedule
Friday, April 26, 2024
8:00 a.m. Student check-in
8:30 a.m. Class Begins
12-1 p.m. Lunch Break
12-5 p.m. End Class – Day 1
Saturday, April 27, 2024
8:00 a.m. Class Begins
12-1 p.m. Lunch Break
12-5 p.m. Class Ends
We hope you will join us!
Questions?
Reach out to Shelly Miles
lavaebay@yahoo.com / 970-712-2027
OR
Andy Lovelace / andy@nh4gj.org / 970-261-8279
FDR Medical Jamaica 2024 Outreach
Pastor Gareth Phillips, the Foursquare National Leader of Jamaica, has kindly requested FDR Medical to join his ministry team in serving rural Jamaican parishes. These communities encounter numerous challenges in accessing healthcare. FDR Medical is currently planning a trip to Jamaica in July 2024, and we would love to invite all medical volunteers to participate.
The trip will last for one week, with an arrival date in Jamaica on July 13th, 2024. The estimated cost will be approximately $800 to $1000.
We strongly encourage FDR medical volunteers to participate in these scheduled international outreaches with FDR Medical. These trips encompass various aspects:
- Collaborating with the local International Foursquare Church to provide support, encouragement, build relationships, and extend outreach to their communities.
- Offering both medical and spiritual assistance to the communities.
- Equipping our volunteers for future disaster deployments through specialized training.
If you are already a volunteer with FDR Medical, please email twood@foursquare.org to sign up for the trip.
If you are not yet an FDR Medical volunteer, we are excited to have you join the team! Please apply to volunteer HERE.