Community Training

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The clinical staff at F.I.R.S.T. Project has a national reputation for training that is used locally to improve understanding in the areas of torture, trauma, refugees, acculturation, and culturally responsive service provision. Training is available at 3 different levels for service providers working with multicultural populations. For more information, please contact Dr. Maria Prendes-Lintel, Director of F.I.R.S.T. Project Inc Training is available for:

• Physicians
• Psychologists
• Therapists
• Nurses
• Interpreters
• Case Managers
• Teachers
• Resettlement Workers
• Groups sponsoring refugees including churches
• Social Services
• Leaders within a cultural community who serve through outreach
• and support(Promotores Model)

3 Levels of Training:

1. Single or series of presentations on a topic
2. Initial training with ongoing in-service training and supervision (Community Training Model)
3. Study group sessions for professionals

Training topics include:

• Working with Torture Survivors
• The Health of Torture Survivors
• The Impact of Culture on Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
• Working with Refugees
• Refugee Families
• The Impact of the Refugee Experience on the Learning and
• Development of Children and Adolescents
• The Impact of War and Trauma on Refugee Adjustment

• Acculturative stress in the Individual, Couple, and Family
• The Collaborative Relationship in Working with Refugees, Immigrants and Refugees
• Promotores Model of Community Outreach (leaders within a cultural community serve through outreach and support
• Multicultural Competencies
• Stress Management and Burnout (for those working with traumatized populations

• Depression, Anxiety, PTSD and Co-Occurring Disorders
• The Older Adult in the Refugee Family
• Multicultural Service Provision for the Aging and Elderly
• Depression Through the Lifespan
• Interpreting in the Mental Health Setting (available for both interpreters and health professionals working with interpreters)

• Australia Work Visas

FIRST Project
1000 "O" Street Suite 102
Lincoln, NE 68508