Crisis Team
Training
Keep Your Team Prepared
Keep Your District Ready
Stay on the Cutting Edge
School Districts
Train and maintain your crisis team.
Use our video series any time with the team, with teachers, staff or incoming MH support.
Facilitates annual fall training for all new hires for admin or possible team positions, so all are on the same page when crisis strikes.
Specific cluster of segments for administrators, because teams can only do what leadership approves, making their training a key to success.
- Over 20 videos with activities/handouts
- A complete 20-hour training course
- Coordinates with the Crisis Resource Manual
- Resources updated annually
- Additional guidelines & aids added regularly
- Small group exercises build knowledge into skills
- Recommended as 10 two-hour segments, so no pull-out days for trainees
- Can be offered several times a year
- Can be given PD credits depending on local policies
Regional Programs
ESA, Regional or Association Collaboration
Facilitate coordination and collaboration for a region, a group of districts or an association of schools.
Become the go-to resource for training crisis teams for your region.
Collaborative regional teams provide a greater pool of resources for responses and a greater mix of expertise and experience.
Coordinating the regional training makes you invaluable to districts you serve.
- This program uses the same videos as the district version
- Small group exercises cross-pollinate knowledge and skills among districts
- Can be offered in 10 two-hour segments, half day or full-day workshops
- Can be offered several times a year
- Can be given PD credits depending on local policies
- Allows ESAs to provide an invaluable, but fiscally responsible resource
What's In the Program:
Features:
- Video-based program with handouts to train your team
- Facilitator’s orientation & guidelines
- Activities designed to take knowledge into skills
- Guides district to “next steps” and continuous improvement
Advantages:
- Coordinating resources (manuals, additional video resources)
- Available 24/7
- Flexible to meet with your schedule
Benefits:
- Keep your team fresh and skilled
- Coordinates with All Staff Preparedness videos
- Organized for immediate response when crisis strikes
Training Options
Offering three levels of participation allows flexibility and choice for each unique setting.
The Foundation
Provides essential videos, handouts, and activities to train your team and administrators
Team +
Staff Training
This level provides the foundational training to the team, and provides 15 five-minute videos that slip in existing staff or departmental meetings
Premium Plan
This provides all training plus a special administrator series of interviews, videos and podcasts for leadership in team or building level crisis response.
Training Details
Intended Audience:
Full Training:
- School Counselors
- School Psychologists
- School Social Workers
- Mental Health Staff placed in schools
- School Nurses
- Bi-lingual/Bi-cultural Staff
- Key Communicator Teachers
Selected Portions & Special Segments:
- Administrators
- Clerical Staff
- Para-Professionals
Include any others who are obvious resource people you might mobilize to respond to a school tragedy or crisis.
Contents:
- Flowchart – Response Day 1
- Roles of Staff & Team
- Organizational Options
- Grief / Youth in Grief
- Suicide
- Trauma
- Safe Rooms
- Life Tributes
- Missing Students
- The Empty Desk & Student Belongings
- Special Needs
- Reading Student Announcements
- One Child Loses a Parent
- The Checklist
- Next Steps