Supporting Individuals and School Communities Through Grief Experiences Webinar-2025

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Description

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 and certificates for participants will be awarded for in-person sessions only.  

Cost

There is no fee to attend this training.

Location

This is a virtual program. You will join the webinar by logging in to your Benchmark account up to 15 minutes prior to the start time. 

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.