PARAMEDICS, DISPATCHERS, MEDICAL PROFESSIONALS

While most injuries to paramedics and EMTs are related to overexertion and falls, nearly 10% are transportation-related, and a significant number involve assaults, reports the Department of Labor (DOL) Bureau of Labor Statistics in one study. During the study period, of the 59 fatalities that occurred among these first responders in both private industry and the public sector, 86% were transportation-related and 8% were assaults.

In light of these dangers, 2 The Rescue has created courses designed to increase the safety and enhance the on-the-job effectiveness of paramedics and EMTs. Exceeding the standards of classes that were previously available to Michigan’s emergency medical services personnel, these courses are approved for State of Michigan EMS Continuing Education credits and Michigan State 911 Committee Dispatcher Training Funds.

COURSES OFFERED

Zero to 60: Career Survival and Emotional Wellness

Through boots on the ground experiences, 2 The Rescue provides first responders a clear picture of why their profession can lead to destructive habits and unhealthy lifestyles. We will demonstrate how the inability to manage the cumulative stress from daily exposures to adrenaline and trauma can negatively affect the responder’s safety, decision-making and ability to remain ethically solid.

After attending our Career Survival and Emotional Wellness course, your first responders, their loved ones and work family will be armed with tools to manage their everyday stressors. We’ll help them recognize the warning signs for chronic and post-traumatic stress and suicidal behavior. All will leave with realistic, simple and successful methods to help rescue the rescuers!

Loss of Control: Suicide, PTS & High Risk Behavior Education

This frontline experience-based wellness training is designed for first responders, their loved ones, organizational leaders and peer support team members and will address suicide, post traumatic stresses, secondary trauma and accumulative career exposures. Whether you have been in this field 3 weeks or 30 years you will be given life changing tools to be safe, successful and healthy in your career, personal life and into retirement. You will be armed to be a more knowledgeable and effective peer for your partners.

Attendees will learn why the suicide rates are so high within first responders cultures and what must change! You will understand what post traumatic stressors are and be able to recognize high risk lifestyle behaviors so to make personal changes or intervene before it is to late.

Peer Support Team: Bringing Your Team To The Next Level!

Whether you call it a Cop to Cop Responder team or CISM Team, you may be wondering how to bring them to the next level of care for your personnel and their families. This course will help you develop and maintain a successful team, show you how to educate your organization from the top down to the front lines and teach ways to gain the support of your risk management and union leadership. Peer Support Teams is designed as an open discussion format. Two the Rescue will lead the dialogue on a range of training topics, encouraging course participants to raise specific questions on what is and isn’t working in sustaining their peer support team.

Scene Safety & Traffic Control

A combination of classroom learnings and hands-on training, this 2 The Rescue course helps police officers learn the legal requirements for scene control according to the Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD), OSHA and DOT regulations.

Situational Awareness, Personal Threat Assessment and De-Escalation Techniques

Conflict occurs when the beliefs or actions of one or more members of a group are resisted by others. Of course, the violence that can result from such conflict is a concern for any business or organization.

Given the potential for workplace violence, you will benefit from 2 The Rescues course on Personal Conflict Assessment, Situational Awareness and De-Escalation Techniques. Comprehensive in its approach, it explores proven techniques of awareness and recognition. They emphasize de-escalation, avoidance over confrontation, and how to respond.

Emergency Response Liability & Advanced Driving Strategies

This advanced driver’s training program from 2 The Rescue adheres to your organization’s practices as it meets or exceeds legal statutes of the State of Michigan. The course’s training methods are designed to change your vehicle operator attitudes and modify their driving behaviors in non-emergency, emergency and pursuit operations to help ensure safe, legal and efficient responses in all situations.

Active Assailant Preparedness & Response

No one can realistically expect to eliminate the potential for workplace violence. These events continue to occur with increasing regularity and severity. However, with training to recognize the indicators and preparation to react appropriately, any company or organization can minimize the devastation from these tragedies.

TESTIMONIALS

  • “Excellent class! This material needs to be presented to every firefighter/EMT/law enforcement professional entering the job. It is great training for people who have been on the job for a while too. It explains a lot on how calls take a toll on our emotional state. It really brought to light why some of us feel the way we do and act the way we do when we go home and how it can be destructive on ourselves and marriages. This is a great class to bring your spouses parents and older children to so they can understand what you deal with and how to deal with that as well. This job takes a toll on your emotions no matter how tough you think you are or no matter how long you been on the job building up that wall of emotion to block out what we have seen. Everybody handles what we see differently, and it affects everyone differently. Long or short term. This class will also be good for you to recognize signs your partners might be having trouble, and how to help them before things get much worse. If you get a chance to do this class do not pass it up!”

    18-year Firefighter Paramedic, Unknown Location

  • “Great insight into why my personal life is a mess. It showed that I haven’t taken care of myself, my family or my life. An eye opener on how and why my divorce after 28 years went downhill.”

    RN Charge Nurse, Labor & Delivery

  • “Very personable and relatable. Their personal stories and experiences made the class very memorable and brought their points home. I would go to any class put on by these two. Thank you!”

    Anonymous Dispatcher, Michigan NENA 9-1-1 Conference

  • “Both instructors were engaging and personable, life changing for me!”

    Dispatcher/Attendee at 2019 Michigan Public Safety Telecommunications Conference

  • “Best class of the whole week!”

    Dispatcher/Attendee at 2019 Michigan Public Safety Telecommunications Conference

  • “As both a fire wife and a full time paramedic this class was outstanding. Sometimes filling both shoes is tough, this definitely helped remind me what was important.”

    Anonymous Paramedic, Oakland County, MI