Pathways for Prevention Mental Health Training: Identifying and Supporting Students with Trauma Experiences and Supporting Individuals and School Communities Through Grief Virtual Training

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Virginia Department of Criminal Justice Services (DCJS), in collaboration with Safe and Sound Schools, is pleased to announce the following Pathways for Prevention Mental Health Training.

Identifying and Supporting Students with Trauma Experiences (1st half)

Students experience various forms and degrees of trauma as a result of death, illness, crisis, and loss, often affecting 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.

Objectives:

• Recognize indicators/risk factors of trauma among students.
• Recognize students experiencing trauma and/or grief.
• Identify examples of tiered supports for students experiencing trauma and/or grief.

Supporting Individuals and School Communities Through Grief Experiences (2nd half)

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.

Intended Audience

This training is intended for K-12 and IHE educators, school mental health personnel, school and campus security personnel, prevention providers, law enforcement, probation officers, school and campus administration, treatment professionals, counselors, student conduct professionals, prosecutors, residence life staff, and other interested school, campus or community personnel.

Partial In-service Credit

Partial In-service Credit (PIC) for law enforcement will NOT be offered.

Cost

There is no fee to attend this training.

Training Details

This training is virtual.

Registration

Pre-registration is required.

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.