Fentanyl Facts & First Aid

Course Description: This course serves to prepare the student for encounters with fentanyl, and individuals who have suffered an overdose.  Students will learn what fentanyl is, how it is encountered, where it comes from, binders of concern, and first aid.  These objectives are achieved by providing information on how fentanyl is created, what modalities of transmission, hazards, and first aid via naloxone administration.  While the curriculum is primarily intended for members of the counterdrug nexus and community-based organizations, personnel in any organization that can/may encounter fentanyl and overdose victims would find this information beneficial. 

Prerequisites: There are no special prerequisites for this class. 

Course Length:  

Training Day(s): Half day 

Academic Hours: 1 Hour 

Prevention Ethics

Course Description: The Prevention Ethics Course identifies the standards of conduct for relating to service recipients, sets professional goals with prevention ethics standards, and describes methods of decision making for ethical situations. Participants will be instructed on the potential for moral and ethical dilemmas they may face when working in the prevention field and how to address them based on current knowledge and practice in the field. This training is designed to assist practitioners in reducing the likelihood of substance misuse and promoting well-being among individuals, families, workplaces, schools, and communities.

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day / 8 Hours

Resilience Training

Course Description: Resilience Training (RT) teaches students 14 distinct skills that allow them to develop themselves and others in the six RT competency areas: Self-Awareness, Self-Regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. With these skills, students develop the ability to understand their own thoughts, emotions, and behaviors, as well as the thoughts, emotions, and behaviors of others. Students master skills to to use during high and low stress situations to strengthen relationships through communication strategies and learn how to praise effectively, respond constructively to positive experiences, as well as discuss and manage stressful activating events effectively.

Prerequisites: Value in Action Character Strength Survey

Course Length: 3 Days/ 24 Hours

Resilience Training Workshop

Course Description: The Resilience Training Workshops are a modular version of our larger three-day Resilience Training. It can include a combination of instruction in the use of 1 to 14 cognitive based therapy skills that increase the use of six Competencies that have been found to increase overall resilience, performance, and optimal functioning of an individual. The Competencies are Self-awareness, Self-regulation, Optimism, Mental Agility, Strengths of Character, and Connection. Upon course completion, students will have tools that will increase their abilities to handle stressful situations efficiently, perform optimally and communicate more effectively. Contact the WRCTC to coordinate the length and number of skills desired to learn. The 14 skills are:

Prerequisites: None

Course Length: 1 Day/ 4 Hours

SAPST

SAPST is broken down into four sessions:

• Session 1 - Setting the Foundation: From Theory to Practice – The theories that lead to the evidence-based curriculums of today
• Session 2 - SPF: Assessment and Assessing Capacity
• Session 3 - SPF: Building Capacity, Cultural Proficiency, and Planning
• Session 4 - SPF: Implementation, Evaluation, and Sustainability / Bringing It All Together