When violent incidents occur, police officers are often the first responders. Yet, experts have observed, they "do not have the training to recognize or handle individuals with dementia. There are a growing number of incidents when individuals with dementia are arrested, handcuffed and incarcerated for days due to the lack of alternatives to incarceration to address the needs of this population"
Spurgeon, Sabatino Coleman et al.2001
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Certified First Responder Dementia Trainer™ CFRDT™
The NCCDP provides county wide First Responder training. Contact the NCCDP about rates for a training in your state.
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Benefits of Professional Certification as CFRDT
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The application is to be completed after the First Responder Trainer has completed the NCCDP First Responder Alzheimer's and dementia seminar by an approved NCCDP First Responder Trainer.
Training is conducted in a group setting either for entire city or county wide training. Please contact the NCCDP for rates at nationalccdp@aol.com or 1 877 729 5191. This application is for Law Enforcement, EMT's or Fire Department who work directly for their agency and are responsible for training. First Responder Trainers may obtain certification to teach Alzheimer's and dementia to Law Enforcement, EMT's and Fire Fighters. To obtain certification as a Certified First Responder Dementia Trainer CFRDT, the student would need to complete the NCCDP First Responder Dementia Course. The 7 hour course includes comprehensive Alzheimer's and dementia curriculum, power point disk, student master hand out notebook,DVD and text book.
Upon completion of the comprehensive Alzheimer's dementia course, the Trainer is Certified for two years as Certified First Responder Dementia Trainer CFRDT and is approved to teach the comprehensive curriculum to other First Responders.
For information regarding Train the Trainer, please contact nationalccdp@aol.com.
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