Ferguson health promotion training outline

Here are objectives, agenda, materials, and details on the learning tasks from a 2.5-hour health and safety training Grace, Scott, and Andrea taught in Ferguson in early November 2014 (before the non-indictment of Darren Wilson). Adapt it to your people!

Objectives

were unfortunately vague and not achievement-based or particularly evaluatable: "promote self-organization, self-determination, and self-support."

Agenda

Pep talk

  1. Intro activities 15 min
  2. PEARL activity and debrief: 15 min
  3. Best-dressed/best-prepared protester activity: 10 min
  4. Violence, cops, and rights lecture/discussion 20 mins
  5. Crowds, scene assessment, scene control activities/ discussion 10 min
  6. Chem weapons lecture and eyeflush practice 30 min
  7. Jail and court reminder 10 min
  8. Social health lecture/ discussion; HALTS activity 15 min
  9. Directing/diffusing acute stress lecture and check-out 15 min

Thanks

Stuff list

  • "Strongly agree" sign for human barometer
  • Chart paper with PEARL, know your rights, HALTS, "have a buddy/ground/do something" as antidote to "isolation/dissociation/powerless feeling."
  • Local resources and national hotlines, particularly 24/7 peer support line: 513-931-9276. See (offsite links) Chicago resources and Ferguson resources.
  • Hand-outs on other stuff you might teach, like handcuff injury, jail support, or SAMPLE.

Print version

  • ?healthsafety-outline.pdf