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Community Resiliency Model®, an introductory session

Webinar/Online

Tuesday, December 1, 2020 at 12:00pm ET - 1:00pm ET
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Info

Topic

This virtual session will introduce participants to the Community Resiliency Model® (CRM), its evidence-based benefits, and the 3-hour training. CRM concepts help people understand their autonomic nervous system's responses and, as they learn to track sensations connected to their own wellbeing, they may live life more fully.

Speaker(s)

Linda Grabbe, PhD, FNP-BC, PMHNP-BC and Dara Suchke

Credits Offered

This event offers 1.0 contact hour to attendees.
Accreditation Info: Georgia Nurses Association an approved provider of nursing professional development by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.


Additional Information

This free virtual session is open to anyone in the community and will introduce participants to the Community Resiliency Model® (CRM). CRM is a skills-based wellness and prevention program that provides a biological, non-stigmatizing perspective on normal human reactions to stress and trauma. CRM concepts help people understand their autonomic nervous system responses and, as they learn to track sensations connected to their own wellbeing, they may live life more fully.  The primary focus of this self-care stabilization program is to learn techniques to reset the natural balance of the nervous system.

CRM was developed in international disaster situations and will be of immediate use to Georgia nurses under the strains of the current Coronavirus pandemic.  CRM can be a shared language for talking about the pressures of the pandemic and the inherently stressful nature of front-line work.  In addition, it helps individuals who cope with chronic or cumulative stress, e.g., front-line workers and persons chronically exposed to violence, poverty, or racism.

The adoption of a program such as CRM at an organizational level will allow individual healthcare workers to gain resiliency skills, and in the presence of organization support for a resiliency culture, it may be expected that there will be reduced occupational stress, burnout, mental health compromise, and turnover. 

About the presenters 

Dr. Grabbe is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and Psychiatric/Mental Health Nurse Practitioner. Her clinical expertise is in primary care and mental health care for homeless or incarcerated women and youth, and in providing Community Resilience Model (CRM) training in group settings.  Her interests include trauma-informed care, the neurobiology of trauma and resilience, social justice, and social determinants of mental health.  Dr. Grabbe is a Clinical Assistant Professor at Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing and a healthcare provider with Community Advanced Practice Nurses, a small non-profit organization that operates a network of clinics in Atlanta homeless shelters for women, children, and youth.  Dr. Grabbe’s published research on brief CRM classes has demonstrated improved well-being among women in substance abuse treatment, as well as improved wellbeing, resiliency, burnout, and secondary traumatic stress symptoms among nurses 1 year after a single CRM class.

Dara Suchke is a nursing student who will graduate from Emory University’s Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing in December 2020. She completed the CRM Teacher Training in March 2020 and became a certified CRM teacher in August 2020. In addition to weaving the Community Resiliency Model skills into her everyday life, Dara loves sharing and practicing these skills with her family, friends, patients, and community.

For questions or inquiries, please contact GNA Communications Manager Charlotte Baez-Diaz at charlotte.baez-diaz@georgianurses.org