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NOVA’s 40-hour Basic Crisis Response Training (CRT) explores crisis intervention theory and NOVA’s techniques for intervention with traumatized people.

The course emphasizes the fundamentals of crisis and trauma, how to adapt NOVA’s basic techniques to individuals and groups, and how to create a community-based crisis response team. Topics include: immediate and long-term crisis reactions, diagramming or analyzing disasters and traumas, crisis and post-trauma interventions, NOVA’s Group Crisis Intervention (GCI) model, fundamentals of organizing crisis intervention teams, and special issues and populations.

The goals of the training are to understand the theory of crisis intervention and to learn the NOVA model for individual and group crisis intervention, and learn theoretical information that is on the certification test, which must be passed to become a NOVA certified crisis responder. The training will be led by NOVA certified trainers.