PREPaRE Workshops

The PREPaRE training curriculum includes two core workshops that can be conducted together or separately and two corresponding training of trainer (ToT) workshops.

Workshop 1, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning

Workshop 2, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

Workshop 1, Training of Trainers, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning

Workshop 2, Training of Trainers, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

Trainers must have successfully completed the renewal webinar in order to train in the second edition. The webinar will take place November 11. An archived version will be available for trainers to take at their convenience.

Please confirm with your trainer which edition they will be training in prior to placing an order for materials.

Workshop 1, revised 2009
Prevention and PREPaREdness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team

Workshop 2, revised 2009
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

The 2008 revised edition may be taught until June 30, 2012. No returns or exchanges of revised curriculum workbooks will be accepted after October 1, 2011.

Workshop 1, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning

This 1-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals, administrators, security professionals, and other educators the knowledge and resources to help them establish and sustain comprehensive school safety and crisis prevention and preparedness efforts. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing school safety and crisis preparedness. It also will emphasize the unique needs and functions of school teams and the steps involved in developing these teams, including a model that integrates school personnel and community provider roles. The workshop also explores how to prepare for school crises by developing, exercising, and evaluating safety and crisis plans.

Who Should Receive Workshop 1 Training

PREPaRE Workshop 1 is appropriate for all school personnel who need to understand how the comprehensive school crisis team is organized and functions. This can include but is not limited to school mental health professionals, administrators, teachers, other pupil services personnel, security officers, front office staff, transportation directors, and before and after school activities coordinators.

Workshop 2, Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

This 2-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other school crisis intervention team members with the knowledge necessary to meet the mental health needs of students and staff following a school-associated crisis event. With updated research and crisis intervention strategies, this workshop teaches participants how to prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, helps to reaffirm both the physical health of members of the school community and students' perception that they are safe and secure, evaluates the degree of psychological trauma, respond to the psychological needs of members of the school community, and examines the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recover efforts. This workshop is an excellent course for all mental health professionals in your district who provide mental health crisis intervention services.

Who Should Receive Workshop 2 Training

PREPaRE Workshop 2 is appropriate for any individual filling the role of crisis intervention specialist. This includes school mental health staff (school psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses), administrators, and other individuals whom the team has identified as appropriate providers of psychological first aid. Additionally, this workshop can be very helpful for community-based mental health practitioners who may work with the school crisis team and/or may be brought in to the school assist in response to a crisis.

Workshop 1 Training of Trainers (ToT), Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning

Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 1

This 5-hour session provides workshop participants with the information and practice needed to become a NASP PREPaRE “Crisis Prevention and Preparedness” workshop trainer. Included in this session is a review of the logistics of workshop presentation and specific guidance on how to present the workshop (with a special emphasis on a standardized delivery). From this session participants will be provided with the information needed to independently offer this session. All participants receive workshop presentation materials and a certificate of completion.

Workshop 2 Training of Trainers (ToT), Second Edition, 2011
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 2

This 11-hour session provides workshop participants with the information and practice needed to become a NASP PREPaRE “Crisis Intervention and Recovery” workshop trainer. Included in this session is a review of the logistics of workshop presentation and specific guidance on how to present the workshop (with a special emphasis on a standardized delivery). From this session participants are provided with the information needed to independently offer this session. All participants receive workshop presentation materials and a certificate of completion.

Workshop 1, Revised, 2009
Prevention and Preparedness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team

This one-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other educators with an understanding of the comprehensive school crisis team and their roles on these teams. The workshop emphasizes the systems issues relevant to the prevention and preparedness elements of PREPaRE. It addresses (a) the importance of preventing and responding to crises within the structure of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary school crisis team; (b) using the Incident Command System (ICS); (c) ways to create safe, effective, and responsive school environments to prevent crises; and (d) how to prepare for crises by developing, exercising, and evaluating plans.

Who Should Receive Workshop 1 Training

Workshop 2, Revised, 2009
Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals

This two-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals with the knowledge needed to meet the needs of students and staff following a school associated crisis event. Specifically, the workshop covers how school-based mental health professionals serving on a crisis team must be involved in a hierarchical and sequential set of activities that prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, help to reaffirm the physical health of members of the school community and students' perceptions that they are safe and secure, evaluate the degree of psychological trauma, respond to the psychological needs of members of the school community, and examine the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recovery efforts.

Who Should Receive Workshop 2 Training

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	PREPaRE Workshops The PREPaRE training curriculum includes two core workshops that can be conducted together or separately and two corresponding training of trainer (ToT) workshops. Workshop 1, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning Workshop 2, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals Workshop 1, Training of Trainers, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning Workshop 2, Training of Trainers, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals Trainers must have successfully completed the renewal webinar in order to train in the second edition. The webinar will take place November 11. An archived version will be available for trainers to take at their convenience. Please confirm with your trainer which edition they will be training in prior to placing an order for materials. Workshop 1, revised 2009 Prevention and PREPaREdness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team Workshop 2, revised 2009 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals The 2008 revised edition may be taught until June 30, 2012. No returns or exchanges of revised curriculum workbooks will be accepted after October 1, 2011. Workshop 1, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning This 1-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals, administrators, security professionals, and other educators the knowledge and resources to help them establish and sustain comprehensive school safety and crisis prevention and preparedness efforts. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing school safety and crisis preparedness. It also will emphasize the unique needs and functions of school teams and the steps involved in developing these teams, including a model that integrates school personnel and community provider roles. The workshop also explores how to prepare for school crises by developing, exercising, and evaluating safety and crisis plans. Who Should Receive Workshop 1 Training PREPaRE Workshop 1 is appropriate for all school personnel who need to understand how the comprehensive school crisis team is organized and functions. This can include but is not limited to school mental health professionals, administrators, teachers, other pupil services personnel, security officers, front office staff, transportation directors, and before and after school activities coordinators. Workshop 2, Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals This 2-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other school crisis intervention team members with the knowledge necessary to meet the mental health needs of students and staff following a school-associated crisis event. With updated research and crisis intervention strategies, this workshop teaches participants how to prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, helps to reaffirm both the physical health of members of the school community and students' perception that they are safe and secure, evaluates the degree of psychological trauma, respond to the psychological needs of members of the school community, and examines the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recover efforts. This workshop is an excellent course for all mental health professionals in your district who provide mental health crisis intervention services. Who Should Receive Workshop 2 Training PREPaRE Workshop 2 is appropriate for any individual filling the role of crisis intervention specialist. This includes school mental health staff (school psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses), administrators, and other individuals whom the team has identified as appropriate providers of psychological first aid. Additionally, this workshop can be very helpful for community-based mental health practitioners who may work with the school crisis team and/or may be brought in to the school assist in response to a crisis. Workshop 1 Training of Trainers (ToT), Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: Comprehensive School Safety Planning Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 1 This 5-hour session provides workshop participants with the information and practice needed to become a NASP PREPaRE “Crisis Prevention and Preparedness” workshop trainer. Included in this session is a review of the logistics of workshop presentation and specific guidance on how to present the workshop (with a special emphasis on a standardized delivery). From this session participants will be provided with the information needed to independently offer this session. All participants receive workshop presentation materials and a certificate of completion. Workshop 2 Training of Trainers (ToT), Second Edition, 2011 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 2 This 11-hour session provides workshop participants with the information and practice needed to become a NASP PREPaRE “Crisis Intervention and Recovery” workshop trainer. Included in this session is a review of the logistics of workshop presentation and specific guidance on how to present the workshop (with a special emphasis on a standardized delivery). From this session participants are provided with the information needed to independently offer this session. All participants receive workshop presentation materials and a certificate of completion. Workshop 1, Revised, 2009 Prevention and Preparedness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team This one-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other educators with an understanding of the comprehensive school crisis team and their roles on these teams. The workshop emphasizes the systems issues relevant to the prevention and preparedness elements of PREPaRE. It addresses (a) the importance of preventing and responding to crises within the structure of a comprehensive, multidisciplinary school crisis team; (b) using the Incident Command System (ICS); (c) ways to create safe, effective, and responsive school environments to prevent crises; and (d) how to prepare for crises by developing, exercising, and evaluating plans. Who Should Receive Workshop 1 Training PREPaRE Workshop 1 is appropriate for all school personnel who need to understand how the comprehensive school crisis team is organized and functions. This can include but is not limited to school mental health professionals, administrators, teachers, other pupil services personnel, security officers, front office staff, transportation directors, and before and after school activities coordinators. Workshop 2, Revised, 2009 Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals This two-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals with the knowledge needed to meet the needs of students and staff following a school associated crisis event. Specifically, the workshop covers how school-based mental health professionals serving on a crisis team must be involved in a hierarchical and sequential set of activities that prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, help to reaffirm the physical health of members of the school community and students' perceptions that they are safe and secure, evaluate the degree of psychological trauma, respond to the psychological needs of members of the school community, and examine the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recovery efforts. Who Should Receive Workshop 2 Training PREPaRE Workshop 2 is appropriate for any individual filling the role of crisis intervention specialist. This includes school mental health staff (school psychologists, social workers, counselors and nurses), administrators, and other individuals whom the team has identified as appropriate providers of psychological first aid. Additionally, this workshop can be very helpful for community-based mental health practitioners who may work with the school crisis team and/or may be brought in to the school assist in response to a crisis.