Pathways for Prevention Mental Health Training: Positive Behavior Supports and Identifying and Supporting Students with Trauma Experiences Virtual Training

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.

Description

Positive Behavior Supports (1st half)

The first half of 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.  

Identifying and Supporting Students with Trauma Experiences (2nd 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.

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. Credit for school and campus security officers WILL be available.  

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.