Ready to Improve Your Volunteer Team’s Ability to Facilitate Better Healing for the Survivors You Help Post Disaster?

Then this could be the training manual you’re looking for.

This manual is a detailed guide aimed to teach and empower volunteers how to better help and equip the survivors they come in contact with.

It outlines a unique “Two Phase” approach to facilitate the healing process after a traumatic stressful situation such as natural disasters, floods, tsunamis, fires and more. 

Post disaster work teams are often trained in job support (shelter and food distribution, health support) but not necessarily emotional or traumatic stress relief.

After traumatic incidents… survivors tell their stories…

The stories can be healing or reliving.

This manual teaches how to facilitate healing rather than reliving traumatic experiences.

Who this Manual is for

If you are one of the following types of professionals, this manual can help you better train your teams.

Post-disaster volunteer coordinators

Volunteer work team leaders

Professionals who work with trauma

First responders

Teachers and school administrations

Disaster intake personnel

Church leaders

Emergency response teams

Volunteers

Manual readers will learn how to:

  • Assess the impact of traumatic stress on survivors (useful for making appropriate responses and developing support groups)

  • Facilitate the grieving process after losses

  • Utilize an easy-to-use model for facilitating healing when survivors tell their stories to onsite post disaster work teams

  • Provide self-care and prevent burnout and secondary trauma.

Fire fighters, law enforcement, and their assault first responders will learn how to use the assessment process and facilitate healing while interviewing survivors.

Post disaster workers will learn how to develop and manage self-help groups for survivors of traumatic incidents.

Many coordinators and organizations buy this manual in bulk for their volunteer work teams, trainers, and first responders. Discounts are given the more manuals you buy. Plus, you can always contact us to inquire about additional discounts or special situations and even group trainings with the author, Warren Dale.

Pricing

All pricing subject to California Tax & Shipping Charges. 

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Warren Dale

Warren Dale is a retired licensed marriage and family therapist who specialized in trauma recovery. He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Traumatic Stress and the Center for Crisis Management. He has travelled to many places to conduct post-disaster training: Bosnia, Kosovo- Kosovar, El Salvador, Angola, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, New York after 9/11, Mississippi and Louisiana after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, and Mexico. He was a member of a network where he provided supportive crisis interventions after deaths, violence, and other losses in the workplace. He is also an ordained minister who received an honorary doctorate for his work in traumatic stress.