CT Center for School Safety and Crisis Preparation Presents:

Course Name:
PREPaRE Workshop 1: Comprehensive School Safety Planning: Prevention Through Recovery (3rd Edition) 

Date: Thursday, March 20, 2025 

Time: 8:30 am - 4:30 pm 

Location: Cooperative Education Services (CES), 40 Lindeman Drive, Trumbull, CT 06611 

Instructors: Dr. Tanya Iacono and Dr. Amery Bernhardt

Maximum Number of Students: 200

Cost: $70 (& online processing fee)
(Lunch included - Please provide any dietary restrictions)

Registration Details: 

** Pre-work is required for the workshop, monitor your email after registration **

Registration DEADLINE: March 6, 2025

CPD Credits: This 1-day workshop offers 7 credit hours of document NASP- Approved CPD. The time required to watch the mandatory pre-workshop video is included in the CPD hours. 

In this 1-day workshop participants will learn 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. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery.  

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, law enforcement officers, security officers, front office staff, transportation directors, and before and after school activities coordinators.

This workshop will help participants: 

• Report reduced anxiety and fear associated with school safety planning. 
• Report increased knowledge and confidence associate with emergency operations planning and multi-tiered crisis response.
• Identify the importance of balanced, comprehensive approach to crisis preparedness and to include the five mission areas.
• Understand how the Incident Command System is utilized to respond to multiple emergencies.
• Identify the key components of effective school emergency operations plans (EOPs).
• Discuss guidelines for exercising and evaluation EOPs.

We, at the Center for School Safety, are ADA compliant.  If you require an accommodation to participate in this event, please call Mary Pupazzoni at (203) 837-8915 or email [email protected] and cc:  [email protected] by February 24, 2025.