TOPIC: Crisis Prevention and Response

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Center Developed Documents, Resources and Tools

Chapter in Transforming Student and Learning Supports: Developing a Unified, Comprehensive, and Equitable System
• Crisis Assistance and Prevention
  

Self-study Survey
• Crisis Assistance and Prevention
  

Resource Aid Packets
• Responding to Crisis at a School
• Crisis Assistance and Prevention: A Self-Study Survey in: Addressing Barriers to Learning: A Set of Surveys to Map What a School Has and What It Needs

Fact Sheets
• Schools Helping Students Deal with Loss
• The School's Role in Addressing Psychological Reactions to Loss

Introductory Packet
• Violence Prevention and Safe Schools

Newsletter
• Safe Students/Healthy Schools: A Collaborative Process

Practice Notes
• About Trauma-Informed Practices in Schools
• All Schools Have Students Who May Be Affected by a Disaster Anywhere
• Grief and Loss
• School Responses to Natural Disasters
• Suicidal Crisis
• When a Student Seems Dangerous to Self or Others

Information Resources
• Psychological First Aid for Schools
• About Conducting Crisis Exercises and Drills
• Addressing Grief through Death Education
• Assessing Whether a Student Might Commit a Violent Act
• Trauma: A Barrier to Learning and Teaching
• Who are School Resource Officers?

Publications
• Addressing Trauma and Other Barriers to Learning and Teaching: Developing a Comprehensive System of Intervention
• School and Community Collaboration to Promote a Safe Learning Environment

QuickFinds
• Grief and Bereavement
• Post-Traumatic Stress
• The Enabling Component

Quick Training Aid
• School-Based Crisis Intervention

Technical Assistance Sampler
• A Sampling of Outcome Findings from Interventions Relevant to Addressing Barriers to Learning:
• Crisis Teams, Response and Aftermath
• Curriculum Approaches to Preventing Crisis Events (Social and Personal)
• School Environment Changes and School Safety Strategies

Technical Aid Packet
• School-Based Consultation, Referral, and Management of Care

Tools for Practice
• Tools for Practice: Crisis Assistance and Prevention: A Self-Study Survey

Guidance Notes
• About Planning and Action for the Mental Health Needs of Students and School Staff in the Aftermath of a Natural Disaster

Other
• Resources for Responding to and Coping with Hurricane Related Events
• Hotline Numbers