Training
GRIT
This is where it all starts. The free GRIT Core Program is a set of short, self-paced modules that will show you how to build resilience in your circle. Become a GRIT Coach in just a few hours and learn how to help family, friends, and neighbors build resilience, see beyond their trauma, and move into a better tomorrow.
During this short course, you will:
- Gain a basic understanding of resilience, common stress responses in disasters, and stress-related problems
- Develop tools to help build strength and resilience within your friends, family groups, and throughout your entire community
- Learn how to support and listen to someone who is struggling with a disaster or hardship
- Strengthen your coping skills, self-efficacy, and resilience while helping others around you do the same
- Recognize the signs of when someone may need a formal mental health counselor and how and where to refer your friends and loved ones
- Gain access to valuable community resources and learn how to guide individuals to additional resources when needed
Show Your GRIT With Specialized Training
Suppose you already have a career as a leader, educator, healthcare provider, emergency responder, or military member; GRIT will give you the tools to grow your resilience and be ready to support your family, friends, and coworkers during tough times. Beyond the GRIT Program’s free core courses, the following continuing education tracks are designed with you in mind and at no charge.
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With GRIT-LEAD, small business owners and corporate leaders take their leadership to the next level. Build workplace resilience by helping your teams and peers handle stress while planning for future success.
Learn how to teach resilience to fellow staff members, your students, and their families with GRIT. Help stressed students and teachers overcome the unexpected and make confident choices about their future.
Heal the mind and heart with GRIT. This track is specially tailored for nurses, doctors, and other healthcare workers who face extremely high levels of stress, burnout, and even workplace violence. Available in both English and Spanish.
Police officers, emergency responders, and military members will learn how to manage their stress and be ready to help their peers when disaster strikes. With GRIT, you will learn how to bring help and hope to your friends and peers during difficult circumstances.
With GRIT-TEEN, you can build real-life resilience skills to handle stress, bounce back from challenges, and make confident choices about your future. Whether you’re dealing with school pressure, friendships, or unexpected changes, GRIT-TEEN helps you develop social support and gives you tools to stay strong, focused, and ready for whatever comes next.
GRIT-CARE is designed with caregivers in mind, whether professional or family/friend, GRIT-CARE offers education and guided conversations for supporting the caregiving population.
"I had one conversation with an 11-year-old girl. I am a physician. She has been my patient for many years. She and her mother came to [the] clinic for an asthma follow-up appointment and with COVID questions. I asked her about ‘worry’ or anxiety in her life and she said ‘yes.’ We had a conversation. I gave the mother GRIT info and we discussed other resources. Also at my office we have offered our employees (about 30 people) time on the clock to do 5-6 hours of GRIT training and shared the website info with them."
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"I feel like I was able to connect with a peer and a staff member. While the meeting remained professional, I feel like I connected with them in a more personal or meaningful way. It wasn’t all about ‘work,’ it was about how they are doing."
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"I was able to reach out to my community partners during a meeting last week. Our last couple of meetings had been canceled due to COVID and I was able to arrange a zoom meeting. I organized a check in with everyone and they all spoke about what their agencies were doing related to COVID to help their clients, consumers, patients, etc. I spoke about the importance of taking care of ourselves, that we cannot continue to help others if we aren’t taking care of ourselves. I was able to share the information about GRIT training with them."
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