Psychological First Aid (PFA)

Pontotoc County/District 8 Psychological First Aid

Location:
Eastern Central University Map to Location
820 E. Main
Ada, , OK

Date/Time:
February 13, 2025 - February 13, 2025
8:30 to 4:30

Hours Credit:
6

Class Limit:
30 students (30 seats left)

Description:
Psychological First Aid is the "acute intervention of choice" when responding to the psychosocial needs of children, adults, and families affected by disaster and terrorism. Developed by the National Child Traumatic Stress Network and the National Center for PTSD, with contributions from other individuals involved in coordinating and participating in disaster response, Psychological First Aid is designed to reduce the initial distress caused by traumatic events and to foster short- and long-term adaptive functioning and coping.

Additional Information:

This training will take place in the ECU Chickasaw Business & Conference Center a 830 E. Main. 

Registration will begin at 8:30 and class will begin at 9:00. 

The Oklahoma Stress Response Team is offering this in collaboration with Eastern Central University.  Registration is via this link: https://www.zipsurvey.com/Survey.aspx?suid=94283

Presenters include Craig Long, MHR, LPC-S, CFRC, Deborah Johnson, PhD, MSW, LCSW & Loren Stein, MSN, RNC-NIC

Continuing Education for multiple disciplines is offered including LPC/LMFT, Social Work, RN & CLEET. 

This nursing continuing professional development activity was approved by the Georgia Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.

These classes have been cataloged by the Council on Law Enforcement Education and Training for 2 hours each of mandatory continuing education credit. Regarding any law enforcement concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices as might be taught, promoted, or otherwise espoused in outside schools or seminars, there is no intent, expressed or implied, that listing the course in the CLEET Course Catalog indicates or in any way conveys ‘CLEET approval’ of such concepts, practices, methods, techniques, products, or devices, unless such approval is explicitly stated by CLEET.