Psychological First Aid and Resilience for Families, Friends & Neighbors - Red Cross - Oregon City

Psychological First Aid and Resilience for Families, Friends & Neighbors

Coping in Today’s World - Neighbor to Neighbor

A 4-hour modular curriculum teaches participants how to build their own resilience— the ability to recover quickly after difficult times.

• The course enables families, friends, and neighbors to:
• Strengthen their own emotional resilience and that of their children.
• Recognize stress in adults and children, and how people react to it.
• Provide immediate support and introduce coping skills to members of their families, friends, neighbors and others by using psychological first aid (PFA).
• Provide better emotional support for one another in times of stress, crisis, and disaster.
• Guidance on how and when to seek additional support and community resources
• Taught by mental health professionals (Disaster Mental Health)

Audience

• Community members who are interested in building psychological/emotional resilience – the ability to adaptively bounce back from challenges or adversity.
• Communities in the disaster preparedness or recovery phases are particularly receptive target audiences.
• Neighborhood Associations
• Civic/social organizations
• Church/religious groups
• Businesses
• 4-H, High school, Teen clubs

Oregon City: Thursday 5/25/17 1:00-5:00 p.m.

Public Services Building

2051 Kaen Road, Oregon City OR 97045

Host: Clackamas County Medical Reserve Corps