NW Baptist Disaster Relief is proud and excited to offer this class during Roundtable 2025!
April 25-26, 2025 Gresham, OR
This class is recommended for Pastors, Disaster Relief Chaplains, Fire & Police Chaplains, Hospital and Industry Chaplains, as well as lay people interested in building skills for community crisis ministry.
You do not need to be a Disaster Relief volunteer to take this 2 day course, but Disaster Relief chaplains will be given preference if the class fills up. The discounted cost (see below) is only being offered to Disaster Relief volunteers.
PASTORAL CRISIS INTERVENTION (UPDATED) This is an updated course from ICISF. If you are a DR Chaplain who took CISM Individual and/or Group Crisis Intervention some years ago and would like to refresh your learning and skills, THIS would be a great course. It covers everything from Individual Crisis Intervention with the integration of spiritual and religious mechanisms of action.
Course Description:
Pastoral Crisis Intervention may be thought of as the integration of psychological crisis intervention with pastoral perspectives and resources. This newly revised course (previously known as Pastoral Crisis Intervention I & II) is designed to train participants in the use of psychological trauma and intervention techniques. Additionally, more specific advanced concepts and current field applications where pastoral crisis intervention will be covered. Chaplains, pastoral counselors, mental health professionals, ministers, and anyone interested in the use of faith- based resources in healing or enhancing their skills in responding to individuals in crisis should find this course of interest.
Learning Objectives:
Define crisis intervention, CISM and PCI
Classify risks and potential adverse reactions
Recount advance topics in assessment
Describe principles of basic spiritual first aid
Discuss PCI with those expressing theodolite concerns
Describe the incident management system (IMS)
Illustrate PCI with those expressing suicidal ideation
Describe PCI with those in acute bereavement
Describe principles of death notification
Principles and practices associated with self-care
Please sign up by Sat March 29th April 5th (extended) so we can order the ICISF training material in time. Below is the Roundtable link for registration. Cost is $175.00 for DR volunteers) This is a deeply discounted rate and covers Roundtable registration, the class itself, and the training manual.
Your Instructor
Bill Lotz has been involved in full time ministry since 1988. He has served as a pastor and as chaplain in hospital, corrections, hospice, and fire/police settings. Bill earned his Doctoral Degree in Chaplain Studies from Golden Gate Seminary in 1999 and has worked in full-time chaplain ministry since then. He currently serves as Director of Chaplain Services Network in SE Washington State, recruiting and training chaplains for fire/rescue and police agencies. He teaches Fire Chaplaincy, Disaster Chaplaincy and CISM throughout the US and Canada.