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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 (1-Day)
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 1 Training of Trainers (ToT): Crisis Prevention and Preparedness: The Comprehensive School Crisis Team

Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 1

This 4-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 (2-Day)
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.

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

Prerequisite: Completion of Workshop 2

This 12-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.