Over the last two weeks, FPD's Deputy Chief Rick Sweet and Crisis Now Coordinator Brenda McFarlane led three separate trainings from the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) with the Fairbanks Fire Department (FFD). | Wikimedia Commons
Over the last two weeks, FPD's Deputy Chief Rick Sweet and Crisis Now Coordinator Brenda McFarlane led three separate trainings from the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) with the Fairbanks Fire Department (FFD). | Wikimedia Commons
Over the last two weeks, FPD's Deputy Chief Rick Sweet and Crisis Now Coordinator Brenda McFarlane led three separate trainings from the Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI) with the Fairbanks Fire Department (FFD). Both Sweet and McFarlane are certified CPI training instructors, and in these sessions they trained firefighters and first responders on the key principles of the CPI model for verbal de-escalation, as well as safe disengagement from risk behavior.
The Crisis Prevention Institute training covers the crisis development model, safe and appropriate staff approaches to escalation of crisis behavior, identification of precipitating factors, communication skills, effective interventions for defensive behaviors, and the least harmful physical disengagements from risk behavior.
Original source can be found here.
Alerts Sign-up