Available Courses

This three-day training opportunity that covers all elements of building and maintaining an effective peer support program. Peer support programs provide many benefits to public safety professionals, including acknowledging the difficulties of response work, strengthening teams, and equipping them to cope effectively. Peer support programs: 1) Provide training to identify risk factors for behavioral and mental health problems, 2) Reduce stigma by encouraging conversations surrounding mental health and normalizing difficult experiences, 3) Create an environment where people feel comfortable approaching one another, 4) Link peers to outside professional resources for additional care when necessary. This course enables introduces public safety professionals and other supporting personnel to culturally competent, trauma-informed, peer-supportive care principles, so they are prepared to support the mental health needs in their communities in an individual or team setting.

1) Parking is available around the building. 2) Enter through the West entrance to the Dubuque County Firefighters Association Emergency Responder Training Facility and the classrooms are off the lobby. 3) All travel and meals are on your own, adequate time will be provided. Registration is required, follow the link below.

Register through the TEEX website. https://my.teex.org/TeexPortal/?MO=mExtLogin

This course will prepare participants to conduct a Jurisdictional Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA). Participants will identify threats and hazards of jurisdictional concern, give those threats and hazards context, establish capability targets, and determine how to apply the THIRA results. By using the THIRA process, stakeholders will develop a strategy to allocate resources and establish mitigation and preparedness activities. THIRA-informed planning is consistent with and expands on nationally accepted emergency management standards as the basis for planning across the mission areas of prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery.

1) Lunch is on your own, adequate time will be provided. Refrigerator and microwave are available. 2)Do not park in the employee lot east of the building. Park in front of the building at flagpole ONLY or across the drive in the Public Works lot. 3) Travel expenses are on your own. Facility questions contact Darin Keith: [email protected], 563-639-6823

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