The community’s preparedness
will determine its recovery.

international Resilience Institute

Paving the way
for the resilience of individuals, teams, organizations,
communities and municipalities.

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Sderot city is dealing with an ongoing threat of missile attacks for over 21 years.
From this experience we developed a model based on rich experience from the field, taking care of thousands of cases every year.

Our training and workshops

1. Community resilience training and workshop for senior management and administration

The goal of this workshop is to provide Senior management with practical guidelines and protocols to create a more resilient community or municipality. The modules are based on the preparedness, crisis and recovery timeline and offer a resilient mindset to the infrastructure, protocols and training within the community or the municipality.

It offers a broad view to resiliency with the practical aspect of it. This is a tailor made (based on pre-assessment stage) and in-depth workshop.

2. Community resilience training \ workshop for field professionals

The goal of this workshop is to provide field professionals with the broad understanding of resiliency and how it practically relates to their specific role. The training includes work on the preparedness, crisis and recovery timeline, while teaching guidelines and beneficial tools for providing efficient services during and following a crisis while learning how to self-care.

It is offered to different target audiences, as defined by senior management and is tailor made as well.

3. Resilience in education

The goal of this training is to help enhance platforms of formal education and informal education as pillars of Resilience in times of crisis and during recovery times.

The training is performed on a senior management level, staff & parents, and is adjusted accordingly.

It will create a community platform within a school that will turn the school into a pillar of community resilience and serve as a unified platform for teachers, parents, administration and students in time of need and during this condition of ongoing stress.
It will Create an infrastructure for community resiliency during the recovery and reconfiguration stage in the future.
It will Strengthen the personal and community resilience among staff (teachers and admin) and parents.

4. CERT training for team managers and volunteers

We offer CERT training as part of our community module for Local Crisis Management.

The CERT training is offered on two levels:

1- Leadership, city officials level (includes the infrastructure and the protocols for activating and monitoring the CERT and the data it provides)

2- CERT members (volunteers)

3- An additional training module of First Aid & Search and Rescue is also a part of the CERT training, and can be offered upon special request.

5. Resilience training for first responders

Self-Care and Peer-Support in the world of First Responders – Guidelines and practical measures to ensure mental health and resiliency among first responders.

The training is designed to prepare the members of any emergency service organization to manage the extraordinary stress associated with responding to crisis and there by reduce the potential for Secondary trauma and PTSD.

Practical and In-depth intervention models and guidelines to crisis management for intervention teams during and immediately following traumatic events. The training will also focus on the community’s aspect during an intervention and self-care and team care among these teams.
Trauma-Focused treatment (ASD), an eclectic, practical approach to focused treatments and “saving the savior” – a practical course to minimizing burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and secondary trauma among professionals.

Years

Our speciality is that we bring experience of 20 years hands-on and real time crisis management and resilience development.

Assessment

Tailored training

Training

Ongoing supervision

A tailored program

The training and workshops are adapted to the specific needs of the community

Different formats

We offer full days, half days, lectures, and ongoing courses, depending on the models and the level of professionalism and practical abilities that you have as a goal

Evidence based

The materials are based on the latest research and evidence-based models and theories

Practical

Our emphasis is on providing practical tools that can be used immediately and embedded into active protocols. Therefore, the workshops offer a lot of hands-on practices and real life situations

Alon Davidi,
Mayor of sderot

As the mayor, I decided to open The International Resilience Center in Sderot. It is an innovative center that provides training and lectures on community and municipal resilience to communities and organizations all around the world.
Sderot is much more than a city under attack, it's a city that deals with an ongoing threat but chooses every day to be a great, healthy, strong place to live in.
After over 20 years of experience, we have become experts in crisis management and building and enhancing resiliency and we are honored to pass on our models, knowledge, and methods internationally.

Meet Ayelet Shmuel,
LCSW Director of the International Resilience Center

Ayelet trains professional and paraprofessional teams in Israel and the Gaza envelope, in the field of psychological first aid.

Ayelet also works with clients dealing with war trauma and ongoing stress, in Sderot and Ashkelon. She was part of the mental health professional team in the Sderot Resilience Center and one of the leading trainers in emotional first aid, resiliency, acute stress management and interventions.
Ayelet is now the Director of the International Resilience Center in Sderot.

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