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Resilience First Aid

Our Resilience First Aid Certification is a proven 2-day prevention program that helps law enforcement officers build peer support and personal resilience skills.

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WHY BECOME RESILIENCE FIRST AID (RFA) CERTIFIED?

Resilience First Aid (RFA) certification teaches officers strength-based skills to help build resilience in themselves and others. You will learn how to spot signs of low resilience, learn language to talk proactively, and learn skills that build resilience.

Shift to Prevention

Rather than waiting for mental health crises, take a proactive approach with RFA and teach officers crucial conversational skills and resilience knowledge to actively protect mental health.

Scientific Foundation

Resilience First Aid (RFA) builds on the peer-reviewed Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Model, providing a comprehensive framework to understand and support resilience.

Proactive Approach

Resilience First Aid (RFA) represents best practice preventative training that puts skilled officers in your organization that actively boosts the resilience and mental health of your officers.

Creating Culture

Resilience First Aid (RFA) skills teach officers at all levels how to create a healthy and psychosocially safe culture of resilience, fostering connection and stronger teamwork.

A Commitment to Excellence

The Resilience First Aid program is more than just a training course; it's a commitment to personal and professional excellence. By certifying your officers in RFA, you're taking a significant step towards enhancing the resilience of your organization and contributing to a broader cultural change in your profession as a first responder.

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Why Get Certified in RFA?

Learn how to proactively build mental wellness in your officers.
Learn language to talk proactively about mental health.

Learn about six domains of resilience and the latest neuroscience.
Learn how to respond when someone is struggling

Learn a strength-based model to become a source of hope

Learn how to build meaningful connections at your organization

What's Included in the RFA Program?

The RFA Certification is not just a training program - it's a comprehensive journey towards advanced resilience skills, providing you with extensive resources and ongoing support. Here's what's included in the certification:

14 Hours of Advanced Training

Participate in a robust 14-hour online training program, led by experienced instructors. This training encompasses a wide range of resilience-building techniques and practical applications, ensuring a deep understanding of the subject.
12 Months Access to the Driven App

Gain exclusive access to the Driven Resilience App for twelve months. This innovative app supports your learning journey, offering interactive features and resources to enhance your resilience skills in everyday life.
3-Year Renewable Certification

Upon completion of the training, you'll be awarded a 3-year RFA certificate. This certification is renewable, demonstrating your ongoing commitment to resilience and personal development.
RFA Responder Kit

Receive a unique set of physical resources to facilitate conversations and refresh your knowledge about Resilience First Aid.

It includes your Responder Manual with all the course content, an RFA wallet card with key information, magnetic resilience skill tiles, domain skill cards, tent card, and more to help you keep the concepts alive, visible, and tangible.

Resilience Report

Get your own personal report to learn about your resilience strengths and where you have opportunities to build.

The PR6 is a validated resilience assessment that you can complete through the Driven Resilience App after certification.

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Benefits of Becoming RFA Certified

Become a Resilience Champion

Learn how to promote a culture of resilience through strong relationships, sharing knowledge, and having impactful conversations that matter.

Learn How to Help When Possible

Your colleagues are facing more challenges than ever before. Learn how to be there for them to take a proactive approach to mental wellness.

Better Work-Life Balance

Learn to proactively manage the mental wellness of your officers and of yourself through practical and effective skills in the RFA program.

RESILIENCE FIRST AID TRAINING & CERTIFICATION

RFA Course Curriculum

Resilience First Aid is built on the peer-reviewed Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Model (PR6). The PR6 is a comprehensive whole body and brain resilience model that provides a clear framework to understand resilience and access practical skills.

The Resilience First Aid Certification consists of eight modules covering 14 hours of total learning. Each module is presented through engaging short videos.

Primer

Gain knowledge to understand the Resilience First Aid framework and the key tools needed to learn to become a Resilience First Aid Responder.

•Understand the concept of resilience – what and how it protects against mental illness through building skills proactively

•Learn about the scientifically validated neuroscience-based Predictive 6 Factor Resilience Model which gives a clear picture of the six factors that build resilience

•Learn about the fundamental neuroscience of resilience, establishing a practical approach to understanding and supporting people through understanding the brain

•Learn about the ALL Protocol, a highly applicable system to have great conversations that build connections

Composure

Learn about Composure as the domain focusing on emotional regulation and awareness, opening the door to activate other domains

•Understand neuroscience pathways to manage activation of the limbic brain and the fight-or-flight response, including how to notice signs in others and yourself

•Gain four practical skills to enhance and regain Composure, useful in the heat of the moment

•Learn about the highs and lows of Composure, how to detect signs and interpretation, as well as identifying risk factors and how to respond

•Get practical conversational examples to respond to different situations when someone is highly emotional to regain Composure

Collaboration

Social connecting is crucial for our wellbeing. This is where Collaboration explores skills focusing on strong connections and communication.

•Learn about the neuroscience of social connection and the concept of co-regulation

•Explore three important social connection skills that help to build strong networks, enhance trust, and improve verbal and non-verbal communication skills

•Understand how to recognise needs of others around social connection, and also how to recognise strengths

•Try practical examples of conversations and phrases as inspiration to develop confidence in having impactful conversations

Vision

An important part of resilience is our sense of meaning and
purpose in life. This is what Vision explores and develops.

•Learn key skills that develops a sense of purpose in life, including and understanding of basic human needs, answering the big questions in life, prioritising, and developing congruent goals

•Understand how to recognise the highs and lows of Vision, what do those signs mean and how they help to understand and connect with others

•Work through practical conversation examples about Vision to inspire proactive conversations that build relationships

Reasoning

An important part of resilience is about planning ahead and using our higher brain functions to challenge ourselves and proactively build a healthy mind. This is the domain of Reasoning.

•Explore the neuroscience of how proactive skills building help our ability to be resilient for future challenges

•Learn cognitive-focused skills such as building resourcefulness, planning ahead, challenging beliefs, and appraising change

•Know what to look for in others to recognise both Reasoning needs and strengths in others

•Access a practical case study to explore language and real-world application of Reasoning skills

Health

Resilience is supported by good physical health and habits, creating a healthy environment for the brain to perform at its best.

•Learn fascinating concepts about neuroplasticity and how neurons encode new skills, as well as how our actions impact the effectiveness of learning

•Understand how our health goals, nutrition, sleep, and exercise habits can enhance resilience, with practical tips to consider

•Learn how to recognise highs, lows, and risks related to Health that can inform important conversations

•Try out conversational examples to connect proactively and support good Health habits in those around you

Tenacity

Tenacity is what we often think about in terms of resilience – the
ability to be persistent and maintain our motivation regardless of
challenges along the way.

•Learn practical Tenacity skills such as building realistic optimism, self-motivation skills, how to overcome mistakes, and time management skills

•Know what to look for in others to spot high Tenacity, as well as where someone might need help and what might indicate mental health risk

•Try conversation skills using real-world scenarios to gain more confidence in connecting and communicating through practical examples

Closing

The final module completes the certification through a review of key concepts, as well as practical steps towards a future of proactive mental wellness.

•Look back and review key concepts learned through the training as your path towards becoming certified

•Learn about building your own resilience using the tools you have access to as an ongoing resource, helping to understand yourself and your own authentic resilience story

•Step through a detailed case study to practice your use of the ALL Protocol as enhanced by the knowledge you’ve gained through the six domains

•Develop an action plan to champion resilience in your workplace, home, or wherever you see the need

•Finally, complete a short multiple-choice assessment to complete your certification!

SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE

RFA Research Paper

Our methods are all research based and proven.

Download and read the full 2024 RFA Research Paper to learn about the scientific and neuroscience foundations of the program.

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