Pathways for Prevention Mental Health Training Available By Request

A 2-hour course offered in-person or virtually.

Emotional awareness and management are critical social-emotional competencies that support student growth and can help prevent emotional, behavioral, and mental health crises. Through scenario-based examples and activities, these concepts will be defined, and participants will learn how schools can support their students’ growth in these areas in a multi-tiered system of support that focuses on social-emotional learning.

Objectives: 

• Explore how the Social Emotional Learning (SEL) framework supports and promotes emotional awareness and management for students.

• Identify and apply SEL and MTSS interventions to support positive school climate.  

• Identify specific strategies to support emotional awareness and management skills in the school community. 

A 2-hour course offered in-person or virtually. (Can be extended to 3 hours to include Postvention.)

Students experience a myriad of emotions as they progress through school. While most cope successfully with these feelings, many will harbor emotional pain so great that they have thoughts of suicide. In fact, approximately 50% of lifetime mental health conditions emerge by age 14 and 90% of deaths by suicide had an underlying mental illness. As mental health concerns increase, schools must be ready to address suicide prevention and intervention needs for all students.   

Through scenario-based examples and activities, participants will learn how to identify risk and protective factors and warning signs of suicide. They will also learn how schools can support students at-risk for suicide through implementation of MTSS such as, conducting suicide risk assessments, safety planning, and reintegrating students back into school after hospitalization. Additionally, best practices in suicide postvention will be defined and reviewed.   

Objectives: 

• Identify indicators/risk factors of youth suicide.  

• Identify protective factors against youth suicide.  

• Identify tiered interventions for students who may be at risk for suicide.  

• Identify specific strategies for safety planning in cases of youth suicide risk. 

A 2-hour course offered in-person or virtually.

This session highlights the power of a positive approach to fostering a safe and welcoming school environment with positive behavioral supports. Examining best practices in proactive, response, and management strategies across a multi-tiered systems approach, participants will gain practical tools and strategies for building a positive climate and supportive culture to increase positive student engagement, interaction, and growth, decreasing negative, harmful, and potentially violent behaviors in school.

Objectives: 

• Explore the underlying causes of negative student behaviors. 

• Identify supportive strategies for fostering positive student behavior.  

• Identify and apply interventions for addressing and managing negative student behavior. 

A 3-hour course offered in-person or virtually.

A longstanding challenge for school communities across the country and spanning decades of American education, bullying behavior is harmful to victims, offenders, and school learning environments, as well as linked to long-term mental health impacts and violent behaviors. Participants will examine the myriad issues and presentations of bullying in this module, considering their impact upon students’ learning and sense of safety in school today. Exploring multi-tiered solutions, interventions, strategies, and supports, participants will learn to identify and combat these challenges through universal, targeted, and intensive interventions and resources. 

Objectives: 

• Recognize and identify bullying behaviors within the school community.  

• Recognize students experiencing bullying. 

• Identify examples of tiered supports for students experiencing bullying.  

• Identify examples of tiered supports for students exhibiting bullying behaviors. 

A 2-hour course offered in-person or virtually.

Before and beyond threat assessment, this learning module explores a Multi-tiered Systems of Support approach to preventing, addressing, and managing potential school violence. From fostering a culture of care to assessing and managing an active threat, school communities may be better positioned to prevent school violence than they realize. Participants will explore universal violence prevention strategies, as well as targeted and intensive interventions for preventing and responding to violent behaviors to support a safe learning environment.  

A 2-hour course offered in-person or virtually.

Grief experiences impact school communities and individuals within the community in various forms and degrees, affecting behavioral, social-emotional and academic growth, potentially lead to harmful behaviors if unrecognized and untreated. Through scenario-based examples and activities, participants will learn how to identify and support individual and shared grief experiences through a multi-tiered systems approach. Outcome: Apply multi-tiered systems approach to support individual student grief experiences, preventing long-term consequences of violent behaviors/outcomes.  

Objectives: 

• Recognize presentations of grief among individual students. 

• Recognize presentations of grief in the school community. 

• Identify examples of tiered supports for students experiencing grief.  

• Identify examples of tiered supports for school communities experiencing grief.