Course Overview

Course Length: 4.5 Hours

$65

When built and managed properly, peer support teams are an invaluable asset to agencies by helping identify and intervene with personnel in crisis. This course provides foundational knowledge about peer support team operations including member selection and retention, legal requirements and policy considerations, and ethical concerns when supporting members. It also discusses key liability concepts pertaining to confidentiality, mandatory reporting requirements, and codes of conduct. This course can be taken separately or as part of the Peer Support Training bundle.

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Course Objectives

  • Identify stress-triggering events for responders, what happens when they grow, and how peer supporters can intervene.

  • Discuss peer support team essential elements and best practices.

  • Discover the three levels of non-disclosure.

  • Address team administrative issues, including policy considerations, selection processes, and codes of conduct.

  • Identify ethical considerations all peer supporters must be aware of and how to rectify them.

What to expect:

  • High quality video instruction from our course presenters

  • A state-of-the-art learning environment with easy course navigation and the ability to access your courses on any device

  • Quick access to course support and feedback from your student dashboard

Meet Your Instructors:

Jaime Brower, Psy.D., ABPP

Dr. Jaime Brower has devoted herself to serving emergency responders and their loved ones for more than 20 years. The breadth of her professional experience includes work with law enforcement, fire, corrections/detentions, EMS, dispatch, victim advocates, military, probation/parole, and other associated professionals. Dr. Brower supports more than 150 agencies nationally at local, state, and federal levels by offering public safety related services, including counseling services, peer support team development, training and oversight, critical incident response, psychological testing and evaluations, both organizational and operational consultation, and threat and risk assessment. Dr. Brower is American Board Certified in Police & Public Safety Psychology (ABPPSP) and currently serves on the ABPPSP Board, as its Academy President.

Emily Hitchings

Now the Director of Agency Partnerships and Programming at NERPSC, Emily was a police officer for nearly 17 years. As the employee support officer, she led their peer support team and managed wellness programs for her department. Emily is recognized state-wide for her work and has been pivotal in helping build wellness programs for departments of all sizes across the country. Emily is a certified financial master coach and a responder curriculum instructor for the Center for Relationship Education (CRE). This curriculum teaches responders effective communication skills that can benefit their personal and professional relationships. She is also currently working on a MA in counseling, to assist emergency responders through therapy, crisis response, and trauma treatment.