NASP Summer Conferences

Denver, CO: July 12–14, 2010

PREPaRE Workshops

Presenter biographies are available here.

Monday, July 12, 2010
8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Workshop 1—Prevention and Preparedness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team (6.5 credit hours)
Stephen E. Brock, PhD, NCSP, California State University, Sacramento; Melissa A. Reeves, PhD, NCSP, LPC, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC (link to bios)

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. Workshop 1 participants who want to attend the 2010 summer conference must register for the conference as well.

Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 8:45 a.m.–4:45 p.m. and
Wednesday, July 14, 2010, 8:30 a.m.–4:30 p.m.

Workshop 2—Crisis Intervention and Recovery: The Roles of School-Based Mental Health Professionals (13 credit hours)
Stephen E. Brock, PhD, NCSP, California State University, Sacramento; Amanda B. Nickerson, PhD, NCSP, University at Albany, State University of New York (link to bios)

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. Workshop 2 participants are invited to attend the 2010 Summer Conference Welcome and NASP Overview 8:15–8:45 a.m. on Tuesday.

For further information about NASP crisis resources and the PREPaRE training curriculum, visit www.nasponline.org/prepare/index.aspx.