Continuing Education Information

ICISF offers General Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for most presentations (see presentation descriptions for specifics).

All ICISF Certificates of Completion are distributed via World Congress 18 website and app after the completion of each presentation to all participants whose attendance has been verified. Individuals' certificates including CEUs will only be awarded for hours/days that attendance can be verified per ICISF policy.


Non-Profession Specific Continuing Education

In cooperation with University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Emergency Health Services Professional and Continuing Education (PACE), ICISF participants with verified attendance will be awarded general Continuing Education Units (CEUs) on their Certificates of Completion. 

These CEUs are awarded based on a formula of 1 Continuing Education Unit for every 10 contact/classroom hours

ICISF certificates of completion are not proof of profession specific CE/Contact Hours. It is the responsibility of the participant to determine if their licensing board will accept these continuing education units (CEUs).

 

Profession Specific Continuing Education

ICISF offers Profession Specific Continuing Education Units (CEUs) for some presentations. Please check below, for  what, if any, profession-specific CEUs are available for each presentation.

There is an additional fee to obtain EAPA and NAADAC Profession-Specific CEUs for World Congress 18. Please contact Beth Kohr - [email protected] to add this to your World Congress 18 registration.

The ICISF is approved for the following Profession-Specific Continuing Education:

EAPA (Employee Assistance Professional Association), $45 Fee:

  • Assisting Individuals in Crisis and Group Crisis Intervention

NAADAC (NAADAC, the Association for Addiction Professionals), $45:

  • Crisis Informed Peer Paracounseling: Intervention Enhancement to the CISM Continuum
  • Moral Injury: A Continuum of Crisis
  • Animal Assisted Interventions (AAI) and Critical Incident Stress Management (CISM)
  • Training, Maintaining & Other Activities in the Care of a CISM Team
  • Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention
  • First Responder Grief: Hope for Healing Stacked-Up Grief
  • The Successful Team: Keys to Building and Maintaining a Team
  • Understanding First Responder Culture for Mental Health Professionals
  • Thought Field Therapy Basic (Algorithms) Skills and Knowledge
  • How Heroes Heal
  • Elite Peer Support: Science, Evidence and a Call-to-Action
  • Evolving Resilience: a Meaningful Curriculum for Provider Education Program
  • CISM Services in Cultural Diversity
  • Clinician Wellness: Time for a Check-Up!
  • Introducing the Wellbeing Protocol: a Model to Deal With Chronic Stress
  • GS I Healing Through Adversity
  • GS II Purpose Beyond Oneself: Strengthening Crisis Response Through ICISF Partnership
  • GS II Reporting on a World of Chaos:  The Impact of Witnessing and Telling the Stories of Global Upheaval
  • GS III Crisis Informed Peer Paracounseling: Intervention Enhancement to the CISM Continuum Overview
  • GS III Connection for Protection - Survivor Informed Peer Support for the National Police of Ukraine
  • GS III Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol: An EMDR-Based Peer Support Intervention
  • GS IV  Disasters: Psychological Elements and Operational Guidelines
  • GS IV Summary of Managing Death Notifications following a Disaster
  • GS V The Effects of Sleep Related Fatigue on Performance, Health, and Safety
  • GS V Supporting WNC’s Disaster Responders After Hurricane Helene
  • GSVI Resilience is not enough: How to harness the neuroscience of empowerment
  • GS VII The CISM Leadership Vacuum
  • GS VII Cofounder Closing Message
  • Lunch & Learn A: Founder Dr Jeffrey Mitchell: Sticky Debriefings
  • Lunch & Learn B: Founder Dr George Everly Jr: Everyday PFA
  • A1 Applying and Promoting CISM in the Corporate/Industrial Setting
  • A3 CISM's Support of the 80,000 Pilots of ALPA and Their Colleagues Globally
  • A4 Filling the Gaps Following Community Crisis
  • A5 Managing Crisis Response at the Apalachee High School Shooting
  • A6 Peer Supporter Suicides: When Peer Support Isn’t Enough
  • A7 Shattered World Views of CISM Responders and Spiritual Wellbeing
  • B1 Engaging Innovative Approaches to Serving Victims: Leveraging Peer Support
  • B2 Healthy Enough... Supporting School Based Recovery and Resilience Over Time
  • B3 How to Explain a Death by Suicide of a Parent to Their Children
  • B5 Crisis Management of Murder / Suicide Merging CISM and BTAM strategies
  • B6 Peer Support: What All First Responders Need to Know Now
  • B7 Therapeutic Jurisprudence Utilizing the SAFER-R Model of Psychological First Aid
  • B8 Using CISM to Make "First Responders" More Inclusive
  • B9 Navigating Through the Storm: The importance of preparation before it hits the fan
  • B10 Building a Strong CISM Team: Effective Vetting of Clinicians and Members Part 1 of 2
  • C1 An Intro to BYAC: Preventing & Overcoming Suicidal Ideation
  • C2 “Build It, They Will Come.” Build an Employee Wellness Program
  • C3 Building Resilience: Launching a CISM Team for First Responders
  • C4 Managing Moral Injury
  • C5 Sacred Spaces: Where Children and Youth in Crisis are Safe, Seen, and Heard
  • C6 Spirituality: A Police Department's Secret Weapon for a Resilient Workforce
  • C7 Tapping Works- The Evidence is Abundant- Learn How!
  • C8 Utilizing Psychological Body Armor (PBA) in Youth Diversion
  • C9 CISM 101: An Introduction to University-Based Mental Health Crisis Teams
  • C10 Building a Strong CISM Team: Effective Vetting of Clinicians and Members Part 2 of 2
  • D1 Advanced Communication Skills for Public Safety Professionals
  • D2 Back Pocket Skills in the Teaching Phase of CISM Groupwork
  • D3 Care for the Caregiver: Focus on Workforce Well-Being and Resilience
  • D4 Crisis Response Canine and Facility Dogs
  • D5 Australia's Support of Veteran Stress
  • D6 Incorporating Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol into the CISM Model
  • D8 Post Action Staff Support: A Suggested Structure
  • D9 Tribal Leaders, Funeral Workers, Emergency Managers... What's Different?
  • D10 Two Success Stories of Police Officers Resolving to Evolve from Addiction
  • E1 A Suggested Structure for the Crisis Management Briefing
  • E2 Beyond the Responder: Peer Support and Stress Debriefings With Families
  • E3 CISM Response to Hurricane Helene in TN - A New Concept That Works!
  • E4 Collaborative Effort to Bring CISM Anchored Wellness to Rural 1st Responder
  • E5 Connection for Protection; The National Police of Ukraine Resiliency
  • E6 Cultural Aspects of CISM Training with Indigenous Peoples
  • E7 Managing Death Notifications following a Disaster
  • E8 Paws for Support: CIRT K9's for First Responders in CISM
  • E9 Shots Fired: The Impact of a Law Enforcement Involved Shooting
  • E10 Techniques For Delivering Bad News
  • F1 Correctional Family Wellness Pilot Program
  • F2 De-escalation: Tactics, Trends and Training for 2025
  • F3 How CISM Saved My Marriage
  • F5 Philosophical Foundations of Crisis Response
  • F6 Recalibrating & Optimizing the First Responder Nervous System
  • F7 Wellness & Resiliency at the U.S. Capitol Police: Past, Present, and Future
  • F8 Wellness: What’s This All About? What Does It Really Mean?
  • F9 When There's No Locker Room: Supporting Wilderness Responders

Maryland Institute For Emergency Medical Services System (MIEMSS) has approved the following presentations for MIEMSS personnel only. No additional fee.
Applies to Maryland residents only, MIEMSS # required. 

  • Assisting Individuals in Crisis & Group Crisis Intervention
  • CISM Services in Cultural Diversity
  • Clinician Wellness: Time for a Check-Up!
  • Crisis Informed Peer Paracounseling: Intervention Enhancement to the CISM Continuum
  • Elite Peer Support: Science, Evidence and a Call-to-Action
  • Evolving Resilience: a Meaningful Curriculum for Provider Education Program
  • First Responder Grief: Hope for Healing Stacked-Up Grief
  • How Heroes Heal
  • Introducing the Wellbeing Protocol: a Model to Deal With Chronic Stress
  • Moral Injury: A Continuum of Crisis
  • Training, Maintaining & Other Activities in the Care of a CISM Team
  • Understanding First Responder Culture for Mental Health Professionals
  • Lunch & Learn B: Founder Dr George Everly Jr: Everyday PFA - Additional $59 Fee
  • A5 Managing Crisis Response at the Apalachee High School Shooting
  • A6 Peer Supporter Suicides: When Peer Support Isn’t Enough
  • B6 Peer Support: What All First Responders Need to Know Now
  • B8 Using CISM to Make "First Responders" More Inclusive
  • B9 Wellness Lessons from a Bike Ride
  • C1 An Intro to BYAC: Preventing & Overcoming Suicidal Ideation
  • C3 Building Resilience: Launching a CISM Team for First Responders
  • C5 Sacred Spaces: Where Children and Youth in Crisis are Safe, Seen, and Heard
  • D1 Advanced Communication Skills for Public Safety Professionals
  • D3 Care for the Caregiver: Focus on Workforce Well-Being and Resilience
  • D6 Incorporating Acute Stress Adaptive Protocol into the CISM Model
  • D8 Post Action Staff Support: A Suggested Structure
  • E1 A Suggested Structure for the Crisis Management Briefing
  • E2 Beyond the Responder: Peer Support and Stress Debriefings With Families
  • E3 CISM Response to Hurricane Helene in TN - A New Concept That Works!
  • E4 Collaborative Effort to Bring CISM Anchored Wellness to Rural 1st Responder
  • E10 Techniques For Delivering Bad News
  • F2 De-escalation: Tactics, Trends and Training for 2025
  • F3 How CISM Saved My Marriage
  • F6 Recalibrating & Optimizing the First Responder Nervous System
  • F8 Wellness: What’s This All About? What Does It Really Mean?