1. HEADS UP
The National Resilience Programme for Education,
Prevention and Treatment of Stress and Trauma
Capability Statement
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Heads Up is a stress and trauma organisation specializing in assisting and treating clients affected by
psychological trauma. Our National Resilience Programme for Education, Prevention and Treatment of
Stress and Trauma is set out into two units:
:
Who We Are
Heads Up understands what trauma victims and stress or anxiety sufferers need to return to a normal and
productive life. Our team of specialists and trainers have extensive expertise in treating;
Assault (both physical and sexual)
Domestic violence and abuse, including:
o Physical
o Sexual
o Emotional
o Childhood neglect
Military:
o PTSD
o Torture
Serious accidents and incidents, including
o Industrial
o Road
o Domestic
o Building Collapse
o Fire
Natural disasters
Terrorism
Core Competencies
Head Office: Manchester,
UK
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Heads Up clinics assist hospitals’ accident and emergency departments during major incidents by treating those
effected by psychological trauma not in need of medical treatment. This relieves the hospitals and their staff
from the additional burden and resources needed for treating patients.
Benefits
Emergency Psychological First Aid Unit
National Chain of Stress and Trauma
Treatment Centers
2. HEADS UP
The National Resilience
Programme for Education,
Prevention and Treatment of
Stress and Trauma
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Dov Benyaacov- Kurtzman - Clinical Director
Education: RSW BA, LLB, BSW, PgDip. Psychiatry
Post Graduate Diploma with distinction from Cardiff University
School of Medicine INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGICAL MEDICINE
AND CLINICAL NEUROSCIENCE
LLB Law from The Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya (IDC)
BA Government from The Interdisciplinary Center of Herzliya (IDC)
Clinical Counsellor, Registered Social Worker, Contextual
Behavioural Therapist (ACT) and Trainer
A creative visionary, with over 20 years of experience leading large teams
in complex conditions in high pressure situations. Law enforcement and
military background with experience in logistics and procurement at C-
level. Trained as a Clinical Social Worker in a major psychiatric hospital
and in a therapeutic community for addiction recovery
Adam Leighton – Chairman of the Board
Education: B.Sc. Agricultural & Environmental Sciences/Hebrew
University
Over 20 years of managerial experience leading large teams in
complex conditions in high pressure situations, large-scale project
management and planning and implementation of corporate
strategy.
Dr. Miriam Ben Hirsch-Gornemann- Head of Research
M.D. from the University Autonoma of Madrid, Spain
Received her Master in Public Health (M.P.H.) from Boston
University in 1990
Assistant Professor of Public Health from 1992 to 1995.
Ph.D in Medicine and Surgery (Psychiatric Epidemiology, University
of Granada, Spain, 2002).
Dr Moshe Farchi – Head of PFA Training
Head of the Stress, Trauma and Resilience Studies in the
department in of Social Work, Tel-Hai College, Israel.
Research and practice activities in the field of resilience
empowerment and trauma symptoms reduction.
Dr. Farchi expertise is in emergency mental health interventions,
Psychological First Aid (PFA), Psychological inoculation and other
PFA protocols.
Our Team
Trustees
Adam Leighton - Chairman
Dr. Miriam Gornemann
Brian McCallum
Location
Manchester, UK
Business Type:
Registered Charitable Incorporated
Organization ( CIO)
registered with the Charities
Commission
Registered Charity Number
1170821
Business Information
Head Office: Manchester,
UK
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From major disasters to stress and anxiety, Heads Up is here to help.
3. Building resilience for professionals and the general population.
Education and Training as well as preparation of the individual for stressful events:
o General awareness, recognizing symptoms, basic emergency intervention and referral to professionals
o General population starting with school children, organized workforces (large corporates, bus, truck
and taxi drivers, etc.)
Psychological First Aid (PFA) – basic intervention immediately after occurrence of trauma and support for
Emergency Service professionals.
Highly-trained volunteer first responder unit. Dispatched to the scene of the trauma – terror attack, major
accident, major crime scene or natural disasters. We work together and in cooperation with the emergency
services to administer psychological first aid of those affected.
Treatment at the scene is designed to prevent and reduce the effects of trauma.
A call center and smartphone app run by Heads up to serve as a point of contact for the general population
affected but not encountered at scenes of events – sexual assault victims, crime victims, drugs victims, etc.
Dedicated Heads up treatment centers with professionals and semi-professionals providing treatment as well as
serving as a base for all Heads up activities – training, logistics, etc.
Raison D'etre
Heads Up was born to fill a gap and to take bold action.
The Gap: A National Resilience Programme preparing and treating the
population for traumatic events.
Bold Action: Creating a National Programme that will reach out with speed,
compassion and professionalism in the service of preventing and treating
costly psychological and behavioural problems due to stress and trauma.
The Practical implantation of our model is to create a National Resilience,
Emergency Response and Treatment Programme for Stress and Trauma.
HEADS UP
The National Resilience Programme for Education,
Prevention and Treatment of Stress and Trauma
Head Office: Manchester, UK
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4. Head Office: Manchester, UK
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The National Resilience Programme for Education,
Prevention and Treatment of Stress and Trauma
HEADS UP
Heads Up is more than just another service provider. We
are a movement. A philosophy.
We aim to be a model to our society: the way we treat our
staff with respect and compassion, acceptance and
commitment – understanding that our staff are us. Our
organisation will be governed by the principles of
PROSOCIAL, a scientific method for helping people work
together to create cooperative ecosystems.
Being model caring human beings – each to their own
home culture and together in cooperation and sharing.
Challenging the status quo - asking constantly how we can improve and at the same time appreciating what we
have achieved. Our life-outlook is firmly rooted in the ancient wisdom tradition and with that utilizing state-of-
the-art cutting edge behavioural psychology – namely Contextual Behavioural Science.
With evidence based methods we aim to make our environments more nurturing by implementing interventions
that research identifies.
Our protocols have been tried and tested under the most rigorous conditions and trained by those at the top of
their field.
Those needing follow up treatment will be referred to our nearest state-of-the-art Stress and Trauma clinics that
will be situated in major medical centres, relieving the A&E departments of unnecessary extra cost and burden.
By integrating the wealth of accumulated knowledge and actively seeking to learn and adapt, we can promote
high quality cooperation and caring.
Together we will work on an integrated treatment basis with interdisciplinary teams to give the best treatment
available to prevent the development of any chronic trauma disorders.
We will draw on the experiences of others around the globe and transfer that knowledge and experience adapted
into a working model for the benefit of our communities.
Our methods are all evidence based and holistic.
An Acceptance and Commitment (ACT) based environment (for staff and clients) together with the most
effective based methods including such methods as Cognitive and Meta-Cognitive Behavioural Therapies,
Wilderness and Nature Therapy, Acceptance based therapies, Contextual Based Therapies, Relational Frame
Theory Therapies, Mentoring, Case Management and much much more.
Our centres will be models of a
nurturing compassionate efficient
service to the communities we live in;
being sensitive to each community's
specific cultural needs, interacting
with the community, listening to the
community, and teaching the
community.
