Crisis Response Team Training

The standard model for training for the Texas Crisis Resiliency Team is the NOVA CRT training.  The Texas Crisis Resiliency Team sponsors regular training events in Texas.

The goals of the training are to understand the theory of crisis intervention and to learn the NOVA model for individual and group crisis intervention. The training will be led by NOVA certified trainers.

  •  NOVA’s Twenty-four hour (Three-day) Basic Crisis Response Team (CRT) Training establishes a foundation for crisis and trauma theory along with practical instruction, techniques and exercises in the process of crisis intervention.

NOVA CRT Basic Agenda 24 hours

  •  NOVA’s Forty-hour (Five-day) Basic Crisis Response Team (CRT) Training takes the 24-hour, three-day training and expands the application of the theory and practice involving specialized scenarios that confront crisis responders.

NOVA CRT Basic Agenda 40 hours

  •  The Advanced Crisis Response Team training is Twenty-four Hours (3-Day) and equips participants, in concert with similarly trained colleagues, to help groups of affected people to cope with their immediate emotional reactions when a crisis strikes their community, and to plan for longer-term emotional support.

Texas NOVA Training Schedule:

NOVA Basic Course:

11, 18 May, 1 June 2013   24 Hour Basic Course

       Location:   Alpine, TX  Sul Ross State University, Law Enforcement Academy

       Course at Alpine – CANCELLED!

12-14 June 2013   24 Hour Basic Course

       Location:  Baptist Building, 333 North Washington, Dallas, TX  75246

       Time: 8 AM to 5 PM

       Cost:  $300.   (For members of Texas Baptist Churches, the cost is $100)

       See Pulicity Flyer – Dallas NOVA Publicity Flyer

       Click Here to Register:  https://secure.acceptiva.com/?cst=2356e9

For NOVA Training outside of Texas go to the National NOVA website at:  http://www.trynova.org/

Training conducted in 2012:

NOVA Basic 40 Hour Course   Jan / Feb 2012   Valley Baptist Medical Center, Harlingen, TX

NOVA Basic 40 Hour Couse  14-18 May  Wayland Baptist University, Plainview, TX

NOVA Basic 24 Hour Course  22-24 May  Huntsville, TX

NOVA Basic 24 Hour Course  28-30 Aug   Artesia, NM  (see AAR under helpful documents)

NOVA Basic 24 Hour Course 2-4 Oct  San Antonio, TX  (see AAR under helpful documents)

NOVA Advanced Course 6-8 Nov San Antonio, TX — Conducted by National NOVA Trainer and hosted by Texas CRT

FEMA Training

Team members are expected to complete the National Incident Management System (NIMS) training required of all disaster responders.  These free on-line courses are valuable in helping disaster responders understand the operational organization and language of disaster response.  All of the online training is intended to be “open book”.  This is accomplished by printing the test questions before taking a course.  All team members are expected to complete the following courses:

Please note that these courses change and sometimes the website location is moved.  Please inform us if you have problems.