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NATAL empowers mental health professionals, first responders, medical personnel, and educators to support trauma survivors with innovative tools, training, and resources. Our programs are designed to help professionals respond effectively to the complexities of trauma, both in their roles and in personal interactions. NATAL’s training programs also focus on developing resilience within these essential professions, promoting the mental health of those who serve on the front lines of national crises and providing essential skills to manage their own well-being in the process.
NATAL’s Multidisciplinary Trauma Studies Center offers training and enrichment for mental health professionals and first responders. It allows professionals to deepen their theoretical knowledge of treatment and therapy with emphasis on trauma, grief and bereavement from the leading lecturers in the field. As the entire country of Israel is facing a mental health crisis, and a lack of trained practitioners and trauma experts to deal with the mental health repercussions. NATAL is growing the cohort of therapists specializing in trauma, many of which will go on to treat patients at NATAL.
First response teams such as paramedics, police, fire-fighters and also nurses, doctors, social workers, and search and rescue teams are regularly exposed to traumatic situations that can impact their ability to cope and exercise their jobs. For these teams, loss of life and regular immersion into dangerous surroundings are commonplace occurrences following accidents, criminal acts, security threats, humanitarian crises or natural disasters. Many will develop secondary trauma or “compassion fatigue” in response, greatly impacting the quality of their work and often resulting in professional burnout. It is therefore critical to help professionals in such fields of work find ways to reinforce their internal coping capacities while maximizing sustained operational readiness in facing future day to day adversities, as well as extreme crisis situations.
The goal of NATAL’s work with first responders is to promote wellness, avoid personal and professional burnout, and facilitate resilience and successful coping and decision making under stressful conditions.
The NATAL professionals leading “Helping the Helpers” programs bring 20 years of real-world knowledge and experience of the psychological impact and repercussions of first response work, providing coping methods and tools that are proven to be effective in situations of immense challenge.
