School CrisiS Prevention, Intervention, & Response
School Crisis Consultants offer evidence-based training and consultative services to districts and schools, helping to bolster school safety and promote student well-being.
What is a school crisis?
A school crisis as something that is extremely negative, generates feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, powerlessness, or entrapment, and is sudden, unexpected, and occurs without warning (Brock, 2002).
Crises in a school setting can range from impacting one individual to an entire community. Students can experience individual crises, such as having intense feelings of suicide. Crises can impact an entire school, such as a threat of mass violence or the death of a beloved staff member. Crises can affect a community as a whole, such as natural disasters.
Our Services
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Needs Assessment
Through data collection, stakeholder feedback, and careful analysis, a needs assessment is a structured process designed to help schools identify strengths, gaps, training needs, and priority areas for growth.
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Suicide Assessment Training
Using evidence-based, and best practices, we offer training to school mental health practitioners, administrators and other school personnel on suicide prevention, and assessing suicidality in youth.
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Threat Assessment Training
School behavioral threat assessment is a systematic process to identify, evaluate, and manage potential threats of violence. The goal is to prevent targeted violence using a problem-solving and multidisciplinary process.
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PREPaRE
PREPaRE is a training curriculum focusing on school crisis prevention and intervention. It equips school crisis teams and mental health providers with the knowledge and skills to manage crises effectively.
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Crisis Consultation
At any given moment at a school, personnel can be managing multiple events at once, even multiple crises. Following a training, we offer in-the-moment educational services to support school districts’ management of a crisis event.
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District Protocols
We support districts in evaluating, and where needed, revising their policies to reflect best practice, local policies, laws, and the evidence-based trainings we provide.
