4BI has developed a comprehensive training curriculum for behavioral health first responders. This curriculum is informed by both behavioral health and other first responder trainings.
Training Topics:
Crisis Introduction and Overview
- Overview of Crisis: History and Culture
- Behavioral Health First Responders Health & Wellness
Care basics from a crisis perspective
- Motivational Interviewing
- Implicit bias
- Ethics
- DCF Civil Rights/ADA
- Mandated reporting
- HIPAA
Environmental and medical safety
- Bloodborne Pathogens
- Infectious Diseases
- Weather Temperature Safety
- Defensive driving
- CPR/First Aid
- Naloxone
physical safety
- De-escalation
- Safety in Field
- Situational awareness
Clinical and intervention trainings
- Common Presentations
- Assessment
- Medications (Psychopharmacology)
- Documentation
- Suicide Assessment and Safety Planning
- Trauma Informed Care
- Crisis Interventions
- Engaging Collaterals
substance use trainings
- Substance Use Disorders (SUD) Overview
- SUD withdrawal
- SUD treatments
- Assessing SUD
special populations
- Alzheimer’s and Dementia
- Youth
- Domestic Violence
- Veterans
- IDD/Autism
