First Aid Medical Facilitator

·         Introduction to the Concept of First Medical Facilitator

·         Objective of the training program

·         Principles and Practices of First Aid

·         Assessment in First Aid

·         Structure and Function of body

·         Basic life support (resuscitation and CPR)

·         First aid in emergencies

·         First aid kit and use of materials

·         Triage

·         Safe handling and transportation of patients

·         Introduction to Public Health in Emergencies

·         Communicable diseases in emergencies/epidemic control

·         Vector borne diseases

·         Water borne diseases

·         Air borne diseases

·         STI including HIV and other sexual and reproductive health issues

·         Emergency health assessment – What it is, data collection

·         Food security and nutrition in emergencies

·         Health in recovery programming

·         Emergency Water Supply

o   Introduction to Water Supply

o   Water Supply Components

o   WATSAN emergency response Tool

·         Household Water Treatment

o   Why Household Water Treatment and Safe Storage?

o   Methods of Water Treatment

o   Safe Storage

o   Training

o   Follow up Training

·         Emergency Sanitation

o   Excreta Disposal

o   Solid Waste Management

o   Waste water management (drainage)

o   Vector Control

o   Hygiene promotion in emergency

o   Why do we need hygiene promotion?

o   Selection and distribution of Hygiene kits

o   How do we do hygiene promotion in emergency?

o   Hygiene promotion box

·         Introduction to Psychosocial support in RCRC Movement

o   Introduction to Psychosocial support

o   What is psychosocial support (the definition)?

o   What is psychosocial wellbeing?

o   Contextualization of services

o   Why are psychosocial services needed?

·         Basics of providing psychosocial support services

o   Understand the psychological needs people may have during an emergency

o   Identification of the affected population in need of psychosocial support services

o   Providing services as per the needs of the people (Assessment)

·         Providing psychosocial support by the FMR during the immediate phase

·         Community based psychosocial support

·         Psychological First Aid and Supportive Communication

·         Essential things to keep in mind while providing Psychosocial support in a community

o   Who can provide psychosocial support services

o   Helping the helper (essentials for the FMR providing psychosocial support services)

·         Dos and don’t for volunteers providing psychosocial support services

·         Restoring Family Links

o   Introduction to terms like Restoring Family Links, Tracing and Family News Services

o   What is RFL?

o   RFL project in India

o   What is the need of RFL in disasters?

·         RFL experience from the field

o   Example of Leh cloud burst/Sikkim earth quake

o   Lessons learned from the Field

·         Planning RFL activity

o   Preparation for RFL

o   Discussion on plan

·         Introduction and Conceptual understanding

·         What is the need for dead bodies’ management?

·         What formats are to be completed as part of dead bodies’ management?

·         Experience sharing from the field

·         The basics of Crisis Management

o   The concept of crisis

o   The concept of Hazard

o   The concept of Vulnerability

o   The concept of Disaster

o   The concept of Risk

o   The concept of Capacity

o   The concept of Mitigating Impact

o   Relation between different concept in a disaster situation

·         Different Crisis situation and how to respond to different Crisis situations

o   Earthquake

o   Floods

o   Flash-floods

o   Land Slide

o   Tsunami

o   Fire Accidents

o   Conflict

o   Mass Casualty

o   Disease Outbreak

·         Assessment in emergencies

o   Understanding Needs Assessment

o   Types of Needs Assessment and Assessment Process

o   Participatory Needs Assessment Tools

·         Roles, Responsibilities and Management of CFMR

·         Coordination mechanisms

·         Basics of planning

·         Contingency Planning

·         Basics of Monitoring

·         Monitoring by FMR

·         What to monitor in a crisis situation

·         Why there is a need for monitoring and usage of data?

·         What is reporting and methods of reporting?

·         The basics of Volunteer Management in an Emergency