04/02/2024
Learn More: https://traumahealing.org/CSSFirstAidApril2024
Crisis Stabilization and Safety: Online Crisis Stabilization and Safety: First Aid – April 19th, 2024
Crisis Stabilization and Safety (CSS) is a training program designed to improve team safety and reduce the potential for post-traumatic stress.
CSS interrupts and prevents the symptoms of stress, shock, and trauma during crisis intervention. By providing tools and skills to stabilize the nervous system, it improves outcomes for the responder, their team, the survivors, and the community they serve. Rooted in the science of neurobiology and decades of crisis response application, it’s a critical framework for communities navigating natural disasters, mass casualty events, a pandemic, or other catastrophes.
In response to the global need for effective crisis intervention, Somatic Experiencing International (SEI) has collaborated with neuroscientists, psychologists, crisis counselors, and emergency responders to develop a crisis intervention framework rooted in SE™ principles and adapted for high-stress settings.
CSS interventions are designed to stabilize the nervous system and reduce the immediate physiological stress response. The tools and training equip responders and other professionals with emotional, cognitive, and relational recovery strategies for the self and others. These highly effective peer-to-peer support protocols improve team safety and stability and reduce the potential for post-traumatic stress.
