TIP offers Emotional First Aid (EFA) training programs to the public on how people, in the role as friend, family member, or neighbor, can effectively support a survivor immediately following a tragic event. Emergency personnel are also offered training in Emotional First Aid and are taught what they can say and do to help distraught people before they leave an emergency scene. TIP EFA seminars are also available and offer continuing education hours. Please contact the Executive Director for more information.

Our program is nationwide. When a large tragedy strikes a community, TIP is ready to respond. In communities where there is a local TIP chapter, local volunteers will be dispatched to the event.

Trauma Intervention Programs, Inc. welcomes the opportunity to speak to public and civic organizations. Among the topics we are prepared to cover are:

• An Overview of TIP and its Functions and Activities
• What You Can Do in a Time of Crisis Trauma in the Workplace
• Implementing Emotional Support into a Company Emergency Response Plan
• Emotional First Aid Skills Training

Many companies and organizations have employee assistance programs in place. But what do they do when there is the immediate need of support for employees? Do they have someone in place assisting on the scene within 20 minutes? Years of studies have shown that immediate intervention during a tragedy helps mitigate the long term effects of trauma. In the workplace, employees need the time, understanding, and support to react and re-group before returning to work. The safety of the workplace sometimes depends on this. Having TIP training or TIP Services available when you need them may be critical to employee support.

If you or your company does not have an emergency response plan that includes emotional support for its employees, please contact TIP. We can help.

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Being an emergency responder is a demanding, challenging, and an emotionally-draining career. First responders are exposed to the most horrific tragedies daily and are required to remain calm and focused regardless of how the situation affects them — this can sometimes cause unhealthy or absent coping mechanisms that can bleed into their personal life. This training will equip emergency responders with the tools needed to provide effective emotional first aid to their peers (peer-to-peer support), better assist people in crisis and develop self-care rituals, which can lead to a healthier career. Skills taught:

• Emotional First Aid Skills
• Practical Support Skills
• Dealing with Someone in Crisis
• Death Notification Tips
• Peer Support
• Self-Care
• Follow-Up Resources

TIP of WNC is always seeking bilingual volunteers. If you are bilingual and are interested, please contact us.

TIP Teens is a program that involves young people (ages 16 - 21) as active volunteers in the Trauma Intervention Program. Involving teens in the local TIP Chapter directly benefits the teens and also enhances the capability of TIP to serve youth who have been traumatized.

How the TIP Chapter Uses Teens:

• As members of the crisis intervention team who respond to crisis situations where young persons have been emotionally traumatized.
• As a volunteer with specialized skills, such as being bilingual, who are called out by a TIP volunteer when those skills are needed.
• As members of the TIP4Kids Team who can establish a special rapport with traumatized children.
• As a member of the TIP Speakers Bureau who speak about the TIP Program in schools.
• As "eyes and ears" of the TIP Program in the community. For example, a TIP Teen may deliver helpful materials to a teen who has experienced a traumatic event in a local high school.

TIP Teens report that they use their TIP Skills in other areas of their lives beyond the TIP Program.