We are pleased to announce that CRAEA is offering PREPaRE Workshop 1 and PREPaRE Workshop 2 in Spring 2024.
PREPaRE Workshop 1: Comprehensive School Safety Planning – Prevention Through Recovery (3rd Edition) is a two-day, virtual course being offered on April 5 and April 11 from 8:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. The PREPaRE model, developed by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP), teaches participants how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. This workshop is for a multi-disciplinary team of mental health and educational professionals working at all grade levels in your district, such as administrators, security professionals, counselors, teachers, nurses and other staff involved in school safety/crisis prevention/crisis preparedness efforts.
PREPaRE Workshop 2: Mental Health Crisis Interventions – Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressor in Schools (3rd Edition) is a two-day course being offered at Central Rivers AEA in Cedar Falls on April 30 and May 9 from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This workshop develops the knowledge and skills required to provide trauma informed and immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. This workshop is for a multi-disciplinary team of mental health and educational professionals working at all grade levels in your district, such as administrators, security professionals, counselors, teachers, nurses and other staff involved in school safety/crisis prevention/crisis preparedness efforts.
Note that completion of Workshop 1 is not needed to attend Workshop 2. See the attached fliers for a more detailed description of this course.