I taught, with help from two members of the Bay Area CISM Team, a three-hour disaster psychology/CISM course for the city of Alameda Fire Department’s CERT team. I’ve taught CERT teams before, but this was the longest version so far… and the students responded that it was still too short! My Powerpoint presentation:
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Where I have added material to the DHS curriculum, the text is in red or the DHS logo in the lower left corner is X’d out, so that hopefully it is clear which material I added. I also replaced the original photos with some of my own from Haiti.
Nick Arnett has been part of the Bay Area CISM Team since 2005, has led or help lead dozens of defusings and debriefings for first responders, schools and communities, including the Haiti earthquake, and assists in CISM training and events. He was a paramedic in the Pittsburgh, Pa. area in the late 1970s and 1980s, where he also headed the volunteer program for the