Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), in collaboration with Safe & Sound Schools, is pleased to announce this two-day training across Virginia. Participants are able to attend only one day if schedules will not allow them to attend both.
Participants will review the constructs of Multi-tiered Systems of Support (MTSS) and explore the application of MTSS for the prevention of school violence. Through examples and applications of MTSS as a successful model of prevention, intervention, and postvention, participants will learn to identify and utilize systems of support within their school community to ensure student growth, wellness, and safety.
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.
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.
Students experience various forms and degrees of trauma as a result of death, illness, crisis, and loss, often effecting behavioral, social-emotional and academic growth, which can lead to harmful behaviors if unrecognized and untreated.
Through scenario-based examples and activities, participants will learn how to identify traumatic events, experience, and effects. A trauma-informed approach within a multi-tiered system of support will be described, and specific examples and resources will be provided in order to apply the concepts learned.
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.
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.
This training is intended for K-12 educators, school security personnel, prevention providers, law enforcement, probation officers, school administration, counselors, student conduct professionals, prosecutors, and other interested school personnel.
Partial In-service Credit (PIC) for law enforcement and credit for school security officers will be available.
There is no fee to attend this training.
Training runs from 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
All dates capped at 100 participants
Pre-registration is required.
Register for each day individually – Certificates and PIC will be given at the conclusion of each day
Please note that the DCJS registration system does not have the capacity to sort eligible from ineligible registrants. Therefore, anyone who registers will receive a confirmation. It is the responsibility of the DCJS assigned course director to review the roster and make a final determination on acceptance into the course. Registrants not accepted will be notified via the email address provided during registration.
