Current Workshops

Creating a Pro-Active School Safety Plan – designed for superintendents, school principals and assistant principals, crisis team members, central office supervisors, school security/police officials, and local law enforcement officials. Topics include:

• Information – The Key to Control
• Techniques and Strategies for Dealing with Dangerous Situations
• Violence in the Workplace
• Dealing with the School Yard Bully
• "School Crisis Under Control" (a video)
• Elements of a User Friendly Crisis Plan

Keeping Our Schools Safe: An Ongoing Process – This workshop addresses the issues school administrators must face on a daily bases to ensure that their school remains safe for both students and staff. These issues include:

• Techniques for identifying and addressing safety/security concerns of both students and staff.
• A strategy for utilizing Student Referral Data as a critical assessment tool.
• Developing an understanding of the role bullies play in disrupting a school.
• Implementing a training program for members of the schools’ Emergency Management Team.
• Updating current Emergency Management Plans.
• Implementing a training program for staff to provide them with insights in how to deal with unexpected situations.
  

School Survival 101 – This half-day workshop is designed for teachers, support staff, classroom aides, security/police officers assigned to schools, and bus drivers. Topics include:

• Survival Skills for School Based Personnel
• Strategies for Dealing with Dangerous Situations
• Dealing with the School Bully
• "What’s Wrong with This Picture" (video)

S.A.F.E. (Schools Against Fearful Environments) Team Training – A training adventure designed to assist schools in identifying the issues are that causing fear and anxiety on the part of their students and staff. Each participating school forms a S.A.F.E. Team, comprised of one administrator, a teacher from each grade level, two students from each grade level, two parents, two support staff members, and a school security or police officer. Training is provided for each team, with up to ten teams trained at the same session. Topics covered include:

• What is the role of the S.A.F.E. Team?
• Developing good communication skills
• Conducting the issues survey
• Interpreting the survey results
• Selecting an issue to work on
• Conducting the solution survey
• Designing an action plan