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Renowned crisis planning and management consultant CHERI LOVRE provides THREE WORKSHOPS that focus on crucial skills and strategies your school staff must know. TRAUMA INTERVENTION DAY ONE Trauma is not the same as grief. It has lasting, deleterious effects on short-term memory, concentration, and many other abilities critical for learning. Test scores plummet for those struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder. To meet the needs of those who have experienced trauma, you must understand the unique symptoms caused by changes in the brain’s ability to function. Learn how victims mobilize in the heat of a threat and how this mobilization sets the stage for reliving the event over and over again. Get the skills to help students cope with nightmares, anxiety, irritability, and more. You will learn: • How to identify students affected by trauma and adjust your strategies to meet their needs. • Language and concepts helpful to victims in the immediate aftermath of trauma. • Rumor control. • How to help regain balance, restore a sense of normalcy, and help students recover learning abilities. DAY TWO (optional) Skill-building exercises and practice interventions Required resources: The Day That: A Workbook for Youth in the Aftermath of Trauma Reclaiming Life! A Workbook for Survivors of Trauma • • • • What the NATIONAL GRIEF LOSS, and , BEREAVEMENT In this workshop, you will learn vital skills for enabling impacted individuals to manage the “tasks” of grieving. You will also learn how to structure your response to support those in need while maintaining a sense of normalcy throughout the school. This is a one-day training. The ﬁrst half focuses on the skills needed to organize response efforts, and the second half addresses grief speciﬁcally among children. You will learn: • The impact death has on overall school climate and how to restore balance. • How to recognize and share the “teachable moments” of a tragic experience. • Steps for establishing a “safe room” that helps those affected and minimizes schoolwide disruption. • How children at different developmental stages process grief and loss. • Skills and activities you can use in the aftermath of loss. Required resource: Regaining Balance: Leading Your School Through Loss INCIDENT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Won’t Do for You Be warned! If you haven’t heard of the new emergency response regulations, you will in the next year. The National Incident Management System (NIMS) requires schools to meet regulations that will unify emergency response personnel from the school building to the federal level. But protocol will only get you so far. Because NIMS focuses on bringing multiple agencies together to operate under a single command, your school’s emergency response structure could be disabled if you aren’t prepared. Also, NIMS will do nothing to help your school community recover from loss. It is your job to help your school community heal. Learn how to achieve NIMS compliance without losing yourself in the process! Recommended prerequisite: Free online NIMS certifi cation course Visit www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/nims_training.shtm#2 THERE’S MORE TO CRISIS PLANNING THAN PROTOCOL Are you in compliance with the latest emergency response regulations? Are you prepared to effectively deal with the human response to crisis? Does your staff have adequate training to counsel students in the wake of the death of a family member, friend, classmate, or teacher? What is the difference between grief and trauma? You will learn: • Aspects of NIMS that are most helpful for schools. • Limitations of NIMS and what you need to have in your crisis plan. • What the recovery phase entails. • Your crucial role in meeting parents’ needs and regaining trust between home and school. • A ﬂexible response model that lets you decide who among your staff is most appropriate to ﬁll the myriad response team roles. and choose Course NIMS 100. http://www.solution-tree.com

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California School Counselor - Fall 2008 Contents Presidential Perspectives Jackie's Jottings Executive Director's Report Pics, Clicks and Technics Calendar Index to Advertisers Prevention is Key in Crisis Response High Schools Partner with Cash for College to Boost Cal Grant Awards CASC Southern California Conference and Research Summit II Reflection 2008 WACAC Annual Spring Conference H.B. McDaniel Foundation Awards Announced 2008 Delegate Assembly 2008-2009 School Counseling Program Grant Recipients Named Solution Tree Outsert

California School Counselor - Fall 2008

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