This week, Veritas House staff were eager to learn how we can better help children and young people handle stress in constructive ways, to de-escalate and prevent potential crises from occurring. The group spent 4-days completing Therapeutic Crisis Intervention training with our in-house training facilitators, Bronte and Peter; the first of many groups we’ll see completing the TCI training here at Veritas House.
TCI has two goals of crisis intervention:
- Support young people by providing immediate emotional and environmental support to reduce stress and risk and increase the young person’s sense of safety; and
- Teach young people by helping them learn and practice ways to regulate their emotions and behaviours.
A big thank you to Ben and Brad from TACT Tailored Training Courses for sharing their amazing TCI knowledge and skills with Bronte and Peter last year, and helping Veritas House take our support to children and young people to another level.
