When Your Community Needs You Most, Your Team Is Ready
For the first time ever, Cheri's trusted Flight Team Training is available online, on-demand.When a crisis hits, your staff look to a small circle of people to set the tone, make the plan, and hold the community steady. Flight Team Training is built for that circle.
Flight Team Training for a New Era of School Crisis
For decades, “Flight Team Training” has meant Cheri arriving in person to prepare teams to manage their hardest days. Now, for the first time, that depth of experience is available as a fully online program your district or region can rely on year after year.
Instead of a one‑time event, Flight Team Training becomes an ongoing resource—always there when you need to train new members, refresh skills, or respond to something no one has faced before.
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Who This Program Is For
- Existing or emerging Flight Teams who carry responsibility for crisis response and want a stronger, more sustainable team structure around them.
- Crisis response/Flight Team leads at the building, district, county, or regional level who know their current system depends on a few overextended people.
- School counselors, mental health staff, social workers, and others who are already responding to crisis or would be relied upon following a catastrophic event.
- People who have seen the impact of Cheri’s in‑person flight team work and want a way to keep that wisdom alive despite budget cuts, retirements, and staff turnover.
What Flight Team Training Makes Possible
A Team That Stays Ready
- On‑demand modules for initial training, refreshers, and onboarding—without waiting for a calendar window or travel budget.
- The ability to keep your core team at peak performance over time, even when years pass between major events.
From “That One Person” to a Supported System
- Language and practices that reduce anxiety by making roles clear: everyone knows what they do, and no one carries it alone.
- Strengthens your flight team and keeps it robust so you can onboard new members as staff changes.
Care That Goes Beyond Forms
- A model that brings to life the checklists of tasks by facilitating classroom support, family communication, and staff care.
- Practical guidance for the long arc of recovery, including anniversaries, memorials, and returning to a “new normal.”
Strength in Numbers
- Support for creating or enhancing district‑to‑district or county‑wide mutual aid agreements so your team is not alone when a tragedy overwhelms one community.
Preview the Program
Curious about the Flight Team experience?
Click below to watch a segment and download the supporting worksheet.
How the Online Program Works
Flight Team Training is structured as a series of video‑based modules with supporting materials you can use to train participants from one or multiple districts.
How it works:
> Facilitators show videos recorded by Cheri Lovre.
> Participants work together on group activities, using real scenarios to build skills
> Trainees identify next steps to activate in their own buildings
The program is flexible enough to fit into real schedules and robust enough to support a multi-year plan for building and maintaining crisis response capacity.
Works Seamlessly with All Staff Preparedness
Teams can only operate under informed and strong leadership. The Administrator Training video/podcast series provides a foundation that fosters efficient and effective response and recovery.
The All Staff Preparedness gives every adult in your buildings common language and understanding. Flight Team Training sits on top of that foundation, equipping the smaller group that coordinates and leads the response.
Together, they create a coherent system: leaderships provides the foundation, staff members understand what’s happening and why, and your flight team has the structure and confidence to guide them through it.
Take the Next Step
If you recognize your own district in any of this—a stretched team with changing roles and growing anxiety about “what if?”—now is the moment to strengthen your flight team before the next crisis arrives.
Use the form below to tell us about your district or region, your current team, and the support you’re looking for. We’ll follow up to explore options that fit your context and budget, including multi‑year agreements and partnerships across districts or agencies.
