Program Teaching & Curriculum Development
 
ICDR will teach your already developed curricula, will update current curricula, and will develop new curricula on demand. Examples of some of the many subjects available through ICDR experts:

  Disaster and Emergency Management

  Disaster and Emergency Medicine

  Post-Disaster Emergency Management (psychosocial stabilization programs; demining programs; Trainer programs for emergency medical response by non-medical personnel)

  Nuclear Emergencies-Chemical Emergencies-Biologic Emergencies (CBRNE Approach)

  Disaster Management for Non-Medical Personnel

  Critical Care training for Non-Medical Personnel (IDP & Refugee Medicine)

  First Responders Role in Disasters

  Treatment of Injuries Related to Disasters Including Fires, Building Collapse, Crush Injuries, and Drowning

  Distance Learning Tools

  Incident Command Programs & Logistics and Operations in a Disaster

  Communications in a Disaster

  All-Hazards Vulnerability Analysis Utilization

  Organizational Development and Response Management in Disasters

  Psychosocial Consequences of Disasters and Complex Emergencies

  Disaster-Specific Psychosocial Stabilization, Recovery and Re-integration Programs

  Medical-Psychological Trauma: Risk and Resilience Assessment and Treatment Systems

  Evidence-based Public-Mental Health Intervention Continuums During Disasters

  Identification and Protection of at Risk Populations During Disasters

  Child and Adolescent Resiliency-based Psychosocial Stabilization Initiatives

  Sustainable Long-term Post Disaster Recovery Initiatives - Medical/Psychosocial

  Humanitarian Demining Assessment, Protocol development and Field Action


The above services are provided through a collaborative process that involves identification of the local stakeholders, training needs assessment, beta testing, intervention development and applications, service delivery, assessment of student performance, ongoing evaluation of service provision and randomized cluster controlled trials of intervention efficacy.

Where appropriate, local trainers and faculty are identified and recruited to teach portions of the curriculum. In addition, in order to build capacity in identified regions, Train the Trainer programs can be developed that integrate the knowledge throughout the region, as the philosophy of ICDR is to allow for independent sustainability of all our programs.

Our ‘motto’ is “Those most impacted by the disaster or emergency should afforded an opportunity to play a central role in the recovery processes”. ICDR can develop and supply all teaching materials, including hand-outs, visual aids, teaching scenarios, and student assessment tools. Unlike many other organizations, ICDR selects relatively few clients at a time to work with, allowing for dedication to the clients objectives with few distractions. Each program is tailored to the client, as ICDR prefers not to provide “Off the Shelf” solutions


Why We Integrate the Two
Acute physical trauma is normally accompanied by acute psychological trauma.
The most at risk disaster populations
(children, disabled, previous conditions)
require mind-body focused stabilization procedures.
Care-givers require standard operating procedures to care for themselves and each other on a daily basis.


ICDR News
ICDR will be opening a center to help healers and caregivers relive their bodies of the trauma they absorb during their work.
ICDR in affiliation with BCF is working with the Governors commission to implement a trauma response network that will help stem the current outbreak of youth violence.
ICDR travels to Haiti each month to work with partners providing psychosocial and medical assessments and recovery interventions to 1,500 children and their adult caregivers.


ICDR Events
Trauma Informed Care trainings in Florida
September-December 2011
ICDR continues to train strategic partners in Florida in evidence based trauma informed care practices to build Centers of Excellence for emergency response.
ICDR Delivers PFA/PTSM Training to State of New Jersey
October 2011
ICDR continues their emergency preparedness work with the State of New Jersey.
November 2011
ICDR and the Midwestern Trauma Services Network is hosting a 2 day regional conference on Psychological Trauma, Children and Communities: Current Research and Practice Trends Disaster Response and Recovery: Focus on Success and Resilience .