Pre-Conference Workshops

• Pre-Conference Workshop Agenda (.pdf or .doc, 1 page)

All pre-conference workshops will be held Monday, August 6, 2007 and are free. It is not necessary to attend the conference in order to attend a pre-conference workshop. Please register online for the workshop you wish to attend by clicking on the appropriate link below and entering the requested data. Be sure to verify all data and ensure that your registration is complete. All workshops are limited to 40 participants. Please ensure that you do not register for workshops that have overlapping times.

• Student Threat Assessment/Active Shooter Response: Tactical and Legal Considerations
• D.A.R.E. Curriculum Update
• Class Action Train The Trainer
• Class Action Certification
• SafeTALK: Help in Recognizing Students with Suicidal Thoughts
• Prevention Through Information: Data Collection
• Internet Safety: Internet Predators and Computer Investigations

Online Registration

• Student Threat Assessment/Active Shooter Response: Tactical and Legal Considerations
  8:30 AM - 12:00 PM

  This course covers student threat assessment techniques and strategies including a menu of warning signs which would require intervention on the part of the school security officer and/or the SRO. The course also provides an action track for security and police for the active shooter from the pre-planning stage through dispatch to response. The course is enhanced by scenarios and backed by Virginia law.
  
  

  
  
  

• D.A.R.E. Curriculum Update
  Session I - 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
  Session II - 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  The Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) program is a validated, copyrighted, comprehensive drug and violence prevention education program for children in kindergarten through 12th grade. It features both a parent-training program available for adults and school-based curricula for students. D.A.R.E. represents a collaborative effort between school and law enforcement personnel. D.A.R.E. America nationally coordinates the program, with input received from state and local agencies and communities.
  
  This course will inform participants of recent updates to the D.A.R.E. program. Participants may register to take this four-hour block of instruction in either a morning or afternoon session. Trooper Gene Ayers of Virginia State Police will present the course.
  
  

  
  

  
  
  

• Class Action Train the Trainer
  9:00 AM - 12:00 PM

  This workshop will provide previously certified Class Action instructors with the tools to train participants to become Class Action certified.
  
  

  
  
  

• Class Action Certification
  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  Class Action is a law-related educational program facilitated exclusively by law enforcement professionals for our school children. Class Action provides a basic understanding of state law that governs socially acceptable behavior in the home, in school, and in the community for middle and high school students and their parents. By educating our students about citizenship and the short and long term consequences of unlawful behaviors, we reduce crime, violence and substance abuse in Virginia. Class Action provides character education and teaches children their rights and responsibilities as citizens of the Commonwealth. Children are encouraged to care about the quality of life in their schools, their homes and their communities.
  
  Participants in this training will be given the tools necessary to present the Class Action program in the classroom setting.
  
  

  
  
  

• SafeTALK: Help in Recognizing Students with Suicidal Thoughts
  1:00 PM - 4:00 PM

  Most persons with thoughts of suicide go unrecognized despite the fact that most are directly or indirectly requesting help. Without properly trained professionals, these “invitations” for help are rarely accepted, or even noticed. The safeTALK training attempts to show participants how to provide practical help to persons with thoughts of suicide. The goal of the course is to create more “suicide alert helpers” to have a greater impact on people with thoughts of suicide so that they can get connected with the intervention help they need. Participants should expect to leave safeTALK more willing and able to perform an important helping role for persons with thoughts of suicide.
  
  

  
  
  

• Prevention Through Information: Data Collection
  9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  This course was created through collaboration with the Center for School-Community Collaboration at Virginia Commonwealth University and the Department of Education, Office of Student Services. It has been presented as a series of one-day regional workshops on the collection of Discipline, Crime, and Violence (DCV) Data throughout the Commonwealth. This is the third year of a three-year initiative, funded by a competitive grant from the U. S. Department of Education, designed to improve the capacity of Virginia schools to collect and use school crime and safety data for prevention planning.
  
  The PTI Data Collection Workshop focuses on approaches to ensuring data accuracy; validity and reliability, appropriate classification of incidents, and reporting of disciplinary actions. These workshops are designed for school division administrators responsible for or involved with the collection and submission of discipline, crime, and violence data, including building and central office program and data administrators.
  
  

  
  
  

• Internet Safety: Internet Predators and Computer Investigations
  9:00 AM - 4:00 PM

  This Internet safety training class is a combination of computer investigation for law enforcement officers and Internet safety awareness tips for other school safety professionals. The course condenses five core elements of internet "safety awareness" to include basic computer investigations, using the web to enhance school safety, gangs on the web, file sharing, and the pros and cons of filtering software into one half-day session This course is a collaborative effort of the Virginia Center for School Safety and the Chesterfield County Police Department, and although it was developed with the unique needs of SROs in mind, it is certain to provide useful information and tools to those that work in the realm of school safety.
  
  

  
  
  

Contact Information

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