Professional Learning Opportunities
The OSDE Crisis Team is able to provide professional development and training to school districts covering a wide range of topics. These topics consist of supports in best evidenced-based practices for crisis prevention, preparedness, planning, intervention, and response as well as behavioral and mental health topics. If you are interested in our presentations, you can fill out a Training Request Form or contact us to set up a collaboration meeting.
Examples of Presentation Topics:
- Behavior Modification
- Crisis Management
- Crisis Prevention
- Crisis Response and Recovery
- Grief and Loss
- Mandatory Reporting
- Multi-tiered Systems of Support for Academics, Behavior, and/or Mental Health
- Non-Suicidal Self-Injury
- Psychological Triage
- Self-Care
- Suicide
- Trauma-Informed Schools
PREPaRE: School Safety and Crisis Preparedness Curriculum
The OSDE Crisis Team can provide districts with training in the PREPaRE crisis curriculum. This curriculum, developed by the National Association of School Psychologists, is an evidence-based and resource-rich curriculum for school crisis prevention and response. This training is ideal for schools committed to improving and strengthening their school safety and crisis management plans and emergency response with an emphasis on balancing physical and psychological safety for students and staff.
WORKSHOP 1: Comprehensive School Safety Planning: Prevention Through Recovery
This 1-day workshop provides school mental health professionals, administrators, security officers, and other educators knowledge and resources important to establishing and sustaining comprehensive, ongoing school safety and crisis prevention, mitigation, and preparedness. Making use of existing personnel, resources, and programs, PREPaRE can be adapted to a school’s needs and size. Specific attention is given to developing, exercising, and evaluating safety/crisis teams and plans, and integrating school and community crisis response personnel. Also addressed are issues associated with the media, social media, technology, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. Training reinforces improved school climate, student behavior and academic functioning, student resilience, and school staff crisis response capabilities.
WORKSHOP 2: Mental Health Crisis Intervention: Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressor in Schools
This 2-day workshop provides school-based mental health professionals and other school crisis intervention team members with the knowledge necessary to meet the mental health needs of students and staff following school-associated crisis events. This workshop teaches participants how to prevent and prepare for psychological trauma, help to reaffirm both the physical health of members of the school community and students’ perceptions that they are safe and secure, evaluate conduct psychological triage, respond to the psychological needs of the school community utilizing a multitiered approach, and examine the effectiveness of school crisis intervention and recovery efforts. This workshop is an excellent course for all professionals in a district who provide mental health crisis intervention services.
For more more information, click here: PREPaRE
Behavioral Threat Assessment
Oklahoma’s Behavioral Threat Assessment process is a multi-assessment system. The team-based investigation process in modeled after the Salem-Keizer Threat Assessment system. Additional information can be found on the School Safety and Security webpage.
