These training programs are taken in sequence. First, a leadership team participates in the Implementing RISE workshop. Several months later, have a group of employee volunteers attend RISE Peer Responder Basic Training. Each of these one-day programs is typically held from 8 a.m.-4 p.m., but the timing can be adjusted to fit your schedule.

Caring for the Caregiver: Implementing RISE Agenda

Registration and continental breakfast

Introduction
The need for peer support, the RISE Implementation Road Map, and a quick pre-assessment of participants’ knowledge

Module 1: Define the Problem

• Surveying your own organization to assess second victims’ needs and build the case for a peer support program
• Ways to engage key stakeholders to align organizational goals with the RISE program

Module 2: Design the Plan
Detailed process steps and timelines to help your team set realistic goals for program implementation

Lunch

Module 3: Develop Your RISE Peer Responder Team
Approaches to recruit the right peer responders, support those responders, and promote sustainability among the team

Module 4: Roll Out RISE
Strategies and tactics to ensure a smooth rollout of RISE, and get staff ready and excited for this new service

Module 5: Sustain Peer Responders and Measure Success
Data collection tools, marketing concepts and leadership tactics to promote peer responder retention and RISE service use

Discussion and questions

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RISE Peer Responder Basic Training Agenda

Overview
The RISE (Resilience in Stressful Events) Peer Responder Basic Training is designed specifically to train the RISE peer responders that will provide timely support to staff in response to stressful, patient-related events at your organization. There are five modules:

Module 1: Introduction and Background
Understanding the complexities and stresses of the health care environment, along with the profound effects that acute and chronic stress can have on health care professionals

Module 2: Value of the RISE Intervention
Getting a stressed individual back into the “resilient zone” through confidential, non-threatening and objective peer support

Module 3: The RISE Intervention
The seven principles for peer responders, and understanding which responses can be helpful and which can be harmful

Module 4: Application of Principles and skills
Using role-play, apply the principles of psychological first aid and emotional support to get callers back into the “resilient zone”

Module 5: Keeping within the Scope
Situations that may extend beyond the scope of RISE and preparing for challenging situations

Literature review & closing remarks

Discussion, questions and wrap-up