**NOVA Basic Training**
                                                     
See Basic NOVA Class TAB for class information that is being offered in October 2008.

The course emphasizes the fundamentals of crisis and trauma, how to adapt NOVA’s basic techniques to individuals and groups, and how to create a community-based crisis response team. Topics include: immediate and long-term crisis reactions, diagramming or analyzing disasters and traumas, crisis and post-trauma interventions, NOVA’s Group Crisis Intervention (GCI) model, fundamentals of organizing crisis intervention teams, and special issues and populations.

The goals of the training are to understand the theory of crisis intervention and to learn the NOVA model for individual and group crisis intervention, and learn theoretical information. Kim Walton and Gerry Griffith (pictured) will lead the training.

Limited scholarships are available.  Complete application under Registration Form Tab.  Class minimum is 20 participants. I-CART will bring training to you on multiple topics if the class minimum is reached.

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