CT Center for School Safety and Crisis Preparation
Presents:

Course Name: 
PREPaRE Workshop 2: Mental Health Crisis Interventions:
Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressor in Schools (Third Edition)

Dates: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 and Thursday, April 3, 2025
(Attendance at both days of training is required) 

Time: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

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

Instructors: Dr. Tanya Iacono and Dr. Amery Bernhardt

Cost: $80 (& online processing fee)
(Lunch included - Please provide any dietary restrictions)

Max Capacity: 40

Registration DEADLINE:  March 10, 2025

Pre-Work Required. Provides 13 hours of document NASP- approved CPD.

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

This 2-day workshop develops the knowledge and skill required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor.  The knowledge and skill developed within this session also help to build a bridge to the psychotherapeutic and trauma informed mental health response sometimes required to address challenges associated with trauma exposure. This workshop is an excellent course for all mental health professionals in your district who provide mental health crisis intervention services. 

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, school resource officers, 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 maybe brought into the school assist in response to a crisis. 

This workshop will help participants: 

• Report reduced anxiety and fear associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions; 
• Report increased knowledge and confidence associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions; 
• Identify variables that help to estimate the number of individuals traumatized by a crisis; 
• Recognize the difference between common crisis reactions and mental illness; 
• Identify the elements of school crisis preparedness specified by the PREPaRE acronym; 
• Recognize risk factors that predict psychological trauma; 
• Identify the warning signs that indicate psychological trauma; 
• Place PREPaRE mental health crisis interventions on a multitiered continuum ranging from least to most restrictive; and 
• Match the degree of psychological trauma risk to the appropriate school crisis interventions.
  
  

We, at the CT 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 March 10, 2025.