After the Crisis: Managing Recovery of Students and Staff
The Trauma Response Teams course provides the latest and most comprehensive in-school protocol, policies, tasks and intervention for the recovery of students, staff, and community following critical incidents.
Brief Description of Instructional Format:
Policies, protocols, interventions and postvention strategies are presented for both violent and non-violent yet traumatic incidents involving students and/or staff. Participants walk through the interventions needed in the first hour, second hour, throughout the day, and end of the day critical intervention timelines are identified. The potentially suicidal student, suicide, responses following any violent or non-violent death, legal liability issues, protocol for dealing with potentially violent adults/parents, students fighting, weapons in building, shooting in progress, environmental safety and security can also be addressed.
Goal:
To provide participants with the protocol necessary for directed interventions supporting recovery from critical and traumatic incidents.
Session Objectives:
To provide participants with the protocol necessary for directed interventions supporting recovery from critical and traumatic incidents.
Learning Objectives:
Learner will be able to:
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Identify strengths and weaknesses in their current crisis plan.
- Identify critical intervention timelines and the protocols needed to support specific interventions throughout the crisis period
- Determine additional policies and procedures needed to deal with violent and non-violent yet traumatic incidents.
- Distinguish between trauma and grief reactions and the different interventions appropriate to either reaction.
- Identify critical areas of liability related to their interventions during and following such incidents.
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