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### Introducing Q-Avery Consulting, a Quintessential Experience
Supporting First Responders, Who Protect and Serve Our Communities
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### Our Background
Q-Avery Consulting specializes in supporting first responders. This firm has worked collaboratively with over 100 first responder agencies across the United States, primarily North Carolina. Thirteen years of experience include working with police officers, detention officers, 911 dispatchers, paramedics, state troopers and fire fighters. With over 2,080 hours of training, having trained well over 1500 individuals, Q-Avery Consulting has developed a passion for empowering those who risk their lives and well-being on a consistent basis to protect and serve our communities.
### Leadership and Wellness
By the nature of the job, we see every first responder as a leader. Although, title and rank have an impact on the level of responsibility; first responder means, “Someone trained to respond to an emergency.” Q-Avery Consulting fully embraces leadership and wellness going hand in hand. Like a glove they complement one another. To be an effective leader, it requires being mentally well.
### Focus on First Responders
We live during times where those in helping professions have high demands and stressful work environments. Essential workers, like first responders, are routinely expected to do more with less. First responders are often neglected and neglectful of their personal well-being. With a background in Mental Health, Suicide Prevention, Substance Use & Addiction, and Leadership, **Q-Avery Consulting is dedicated to enhancing the first responder’s tool box.**
### Quintessential Services
#### Wellness Workshops
#### Leadership Workshops
#### Pain Relief
### A message to the first responder community…
If we are honest, we recognize first responders are expected to be all things, to all people, at all times. Q-Avery Consulting acknowledges those unrealistic expectations. It is okay to take care of yourself, in order to be better prepared to take care of your community. Our consulting philosophy takes the position of putting your "oxygen mask," on first. We are interested in your needs, interest, and abilities. Most importantly we want you to know, you are not alone!
“I appreciate all the time and effort that LaShay put in the CIT training for our agency and region. **Her hard work made the program a success and now this agency uses the training every day.** We have the largest number of CIT trained officers in the state and that is largely due to her relentless effort.”
— SHERIFF EDDIE CATHEY, UNION COUNTY SHERIFF
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## Quintessential Services
### Virtual Continuing Education for Crisis Intervention Team (CIT)
#### Refresher Course for first responders that have gone through CIT
Available Curriculum Options: **8 Hours** | **16 Hours** | **24 Hours**
* Navigate Mental Health Signs & Symptoms
* Understand the Impact of Trauma
* Grasp Trauma Response
* Effectively Work with Geriatric Populations
* Prevent Juvenile Justice Involvement
* Explore Positive and Negative Impacts of Medication
* Address Dually Diagnosed
* Examine Suicide Prevention Techniques
* Learn how to Preserve One’s Own Mental Health
* Meet People with Lived Experience
* Understand Limited Cognition
* Analyze Why Cultural Differences Matter
* Master Verbal De-escalation
* Define What CIT is not
* Put it into Practice: Role Play
### Wellness Workshops
1. **First Responders Need Love Too** This workshop is all about focusing on the amazing work of a First responder, taking control of the narrative and achieving positive outcomes. Objective: Overcome negative perceptions.
2. **Be the Change You Seek**
As a servant leader and change agent, we have to be open to modeling the behavior we are expecting from others. Objective: Examine patterns, evaluate needs, and create a road map that connects the two.
3. **How Mentally Well Are You?**
If you are on the plane and the plane is going down, where is your mask and how are your oxygen levels? Objective: Assess mental well-being, create a wellness action plan.
4.**Systemic Racism & Policing: How Not to Become a Statistic**
Pointing fingers leads to little to no progress. Understanding history can provide great insight to all parties involved. Objective: Discover how we are all more alike than different and why it matters.
5. **Stress Management : *Signs & Symptoms of Suicide***
12 hour shifts, being in a fight or flight mode and constant negative media attention, are all contributing factors to a perfect storm of high levels of stress, which leads to high rates of suicide. Objective: Learn how to recognize signs and symptoms of suicidal risk, become proactive, and create a suicide prevention tool kit.
### Leadership Workshops
1. **Developing the Leader Within** Leaders are not born with all the tools, experiences, and knowledge to be effective. Leaders have to be developed. Objective: Explore professional development as a leader.
2. **Habits of Successful Leaders** Effective leadership is all about consistent habits, innate and learned behaviors that lead to people successfully reaching their full potential. Objective: Identify and define the core elements of establishing positive patterns of behavior that lead to positive influence and impact.
3. **How to Create a Culture of Leaders** Effective leaders are empowered by the development of those they lead. There is nothing more exciting than a culture of leaders, which consist of everyone working on all cylinders, working at his or her highest level. Such cultures do not happen by happenstance. Objective: Evaluate the power of intention; create a road map that leads others to reaching their full potential.
4. **Roles, Rank, and Responsibility** First responder culture is all about, chain of command. This workshop will define and explore power, authority, and liability. Objective: Discover where restraint begins and reckless abandonment ends.
 5. **Overcoming Internal Barriers to Your Success** We are not our jobs; most have lives outside of their work. First responders have abnormal schedules, families, and work life balances they are navigating. They also can have higher rates of divorce, suicidal ideation and substance use/addiction. Objective: Discover what’s working and not working with the goal of producing better overall outcomes.
"Ms. Avery is an innovative leader who is not afraid to take the road least traveled to create paths for others where no one has gone before. She empowers those she leads to achieve their goals and be the best they can be. As a visionary leader, Ms Avery guided an educational program for first responders to new heights as they learned techniques to de-escalate crises. She is an exceptionally gifted teacher and instructor whose students have gone on to make their mark in law enforcement and in the communities they were sworn to protect and serve. Her comprehensive educational programs have prepared first responders to offer the best."
-Retired NYPD Officer Tomlinson, LCSW.