March 19, 2026 - 8:00 AM to 3:30 PM

Event Description

Target Audience:  Members of multidisciplinary school crisis teams and school-based mental health professionals

PREPaRE Workshop 2 trains school staff to provide immediate and ongoing psychological support after a crisis, using evidence-based strategies to help the school community recover and thrive.  This training is aimed to equip members of multidisciplinary school crisis teams and school-based mental health professionals to engage in comprehensive school crisis intervention.

This program's acronym stands for: Prevent/Prepare for psychological trauma. Reaffirm physical health, security, and safety.  Evaluate psychological trauma.  Provide interventions (and) Respond to psychological needs. Examine the effectiveness of prevention and intervention efforts.

Workshop 2: Mental Health Crisis Interventions: Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressor in Schools (3rd ed. Brock & Reeves, 2019).  Although PREPaRE is not specifically a suicide prevention program, it aims to help school-based professionals prevent and respond to a range of school crises, including suicide, in ways that align with research and best practices.

Workshop 2 is most appropriate for school-employed mental health professionals (school psychologists, counselors, social workers and nurses), community providers who provide crisis intervention and recovery services, as well as administrators and other school staff members who need information on providing the psychological first aid technique reviewed in this workshop.

PREPaRE first builds a foundation for crisis intervention work by defining key term and understanding what it is that makes crises traumatic.  Then it reviews variables that will affect the degree to which individuals are traumatized.  Finally, it reviews a range of crisis interventions by making use of a multi-tiered system of support.

Participants must attend both days of the training.

SCECHs/SWCEs Pending Approval