The Capital Area Chapter of the American Red Cross will be offering a free course on how to cope in today’s world at the Franklin County Emergency Management Operations Center (EOC) at 1:00PM on Friday, Nov 12, 2010.Participants will include members of the community who would like information and skills to help each other in times of stress, crisis, or disaster.
The goals of the course are to strengthen the participants own psychological resilience and that of their children, to learn how to recognize stress in adults, and in children, how people react to it and to learn how to provide immediate support and use coping skills to help others.
The four hour long course will present concepts of psychological resilience, psychological first aid, how to help children in times of stress, and resources for referral.
Educational and experiential methods will also be used to help participants learn how to handle their own stressful times, and to assist others with theirs.
“Being prepared is so important, as we learned from the Oil Spill crisis. Knowing what to do and where to go for help is vital for your own wellbeing and that of your friends and neighbors”, said Clarice Powell with the Franklin’s Promise Coalition.
The EOC is located at 28 Airport Road - West of Apalachicola, to register for the free course call (850) 878-6080.
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