Current Training Courses:

• 2010 Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  July 16, 2010 Omaha, NE
  
  
• Psychological First Aid training:
  May 22, 2010 - 8:00 to 4:00
  Sarpy County Probation Office
  7511 South 36th Street
  Bellevue, Nebraska
  
  June 3, 2010 - 8:00 to 4:00
  Council Bluffs Red Cross
  705 N. 16th St
  Council Bluffs, Iowa
  
  Please contact Julie Micek for more information:
  Office: 402 593 4416  Cell: 402 660-2894
  julie.micek@nebraska.gov
  or:
  Tom McMahon:  tmcmahon@UWMidlands.org  
  
  
• National Incident Management System Independent Study Program - Current Courses. This web page contains links to the current Independent Study Program courses, many of which are required for registered disaster behavioral health volunteers in Nebraska. Volunteers should check with their regional/local volunteer coordinator for specific required courses.

Additional Training Materials:

• Robin Zagurski talks about the phases in a behavioral health disaster such as the Von Maur shootings in Omaha Nebraska. Zagurski is a clinical social worker at the University of Nebraska Medical Center's psychiatry department. Click here to see the video.
  
  
• Now available - Nebraska Psychological First Aid Curriculum in Spanish! Thanks to Eduardo Iyaca of Argentina for the translation and Juan Paulo Ramirez of the Public Policy Center for editorial assistance.

• Responding to Katrina: A Mental Health Guide To Providing Culturally Competent Mental Health Services To Evacuees And Their Support Systems

• 2009 Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  • Contains information on presentations and other downloadable material from the summer 2009 conference.

• 2008 Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  • Contains information on presentations and other downloadable material from the summer 2008 conference.

• 2007 Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  • Contains information on presentations and other downloadable material from the summer 2007 conference.

• 2006 Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  • Contains information on presentations and other downloadable material from the summer 2006 conference.

• 2005 Nebraska Disaster Behavioral Health Conference
  • Contains information on presentations and other downloadable material from the summer 2005 conference.

• Nebraska Psychological First Aid Curriculum
  • An 8 hour training program equipping natural helpers with the critical skills necessary to provide long and short-term psychological support to survivors of critical events.

• Training Program Archives