AMES OHA Training Catalog

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Introduce concepts, tactics, and strategies for managing conflict, such as assertive communication, active and reflective listening, and classifications of common conflict behaviors to boost effective communication.

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Bring self-awareness of one’s financial well-being and how this can affect financial resilience. This training is intended to increase knowledge of basic financial decision-making and understanding to prompt resilience.

Length: 1-2 hours

• Purpose: Increase understanding of grief as it relates to public safety personnel. Topics such as grief symptoms, short- and long-term grief, as well as mental health concerns that commonly co-occur with grief are discussed.

Length: 1-2 hours

• Purpose: Examine what mental health is and ways to promote one's mental health. Additionally, personnel will gain a better understanding of signs that mental health may need improvement and barriers to getting care (i.e., stigma).

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Bring awareness of the importance of sleep to emergency service workers and how lack of sleep can affect them along with providing information on how to improve sleep hygiene.

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Examine common problems that public safety couples face as it relates to first responder occupations. This training will also discuss relationship practices that promote increased communication and healthy dynamics adaptable to public safety couples.

Length: 1-2 hours

• Purpose: Discuss how stress and trauma impact the body, ways to recognize physiological responses to stress, as well as grounding techniques to bring personnel back down from a stress reaction.

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Educate personnel on the difference between alcohol use versus misuse. Further, the training is intended to increase self-awareness of current alcohol use and provide alternative coping strategies to reduce stress and problematic consumption.

Length: 4-6 hours

• Purpose: Designed for individuals who want to enhance their mental and emotional well-being and improve their ability to handle stress and adversity.

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Participants will gain a better understanding of suicidal behavior through exploring risk and protective factors for suicide. Ways to become more aware of decreasing risk factors and improving protective factors will be presented. Risk factors that colleagues/clients may be facing will be presented in a case scenario and participants will explore ways to assist with retrieving necessary resources. 

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Increase awareness of lethal means safety planning and the role that this plays in suicide prevention through developing strategies to promote lethal means safety with clients. Participants will explore methods to initiate safety planning conversations and will be provided with resources for crisis intervention.

Length: 1-2 hours

• Purpose: Discuss and define trauma and ways to recognize different trauma responses. Trauma Informed Care principles will be discussed, and participants will apply these components in a case scenario. 

Length: 1 hour

• Purpose: Define self-care. and explore the dimensions of self-care. Participants will identify circumstances that may require extra attention to self-care. and learn about additional resources available to support your self-care. 

Length: 2 hours virtual; 6 hours in-person

• Purpose: Teach personnel a 5-step action plan to provide individuals support during a mental health challenge until professional help is obtained. This training is beneficial in reducing stigma, improving psychological safety, and addressing mental health concerns

Length: 3 hours 

• Purpose: Define and discuss postvention as prevention. and the impact of suicide and the grief connected to deaths by suicide. .Explore ways to reduce risk and promoting healing in agencies.. Best practices in postvention planning will be discussed and participants will create agency specific postvention plan and protocols.