School Safety Training Courses

Awareness

Creating A Safer School (CASS) Overview

• Half or full-day presentation previewing one or all of the CASS course offerings,
  and highlighting the most requested portions of the CASS training series

Creating A Safer School (CASS)

• Full-day program for administrators, counselors and teachers focuses on  violence prevention, awareness (warning signs), intervention/prevention efforts, and responding to conflicts. Features participant role-playing and the nationally-recognized RAIN (Respond, Assess, Isolate, Notify) model.

Awareness and Warning Signs

• One-day program for all educators and school employees deals with school safety awareness and recognizing the warning signs of children at risk for violence. Includes information on victimization and environmental characteristics, and how to develop referral and intervention systems.

Needs Assessment

Campus Safety Assessments and Crisis Prevention

• One- or multi-day course for administrators, counselors and teachers features actual campus safety assessments by CSI staff and school safety team members. Includes training of Safety Team and comprehensive on-site assessments, information on Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, reporting of safety hazards, and follow-up procedures.

Planning and Partnerships

Comprehensive Safe School Planning

• For administrators, this four-day program is conducted over several months to facilitate an internal and external analysis of campus safety, security, prevention, intervention and response. Administrators learn how to develop strategic safety plans, action plans, implementation tables, and crisis response plans that meet the specific needs of their district.

Building Safe School Partnerships

• One-day course for administrators, teachers, community members and service organizations, detailing how to develop safe school partnerships, focusing on roles and responsibilities of partners and collaboration efforts to create safer schools.

Campus Safety Teams

• For administrators and Campus Safety Team members, discusses roles and responsibilities in areas of planning, preparation and prevention. Covers conducting needs assessments, developing crisis response and emergency management plans, providing training for staff and students, overseeing realistic crisis response practices/simulations, and serving as liaison to District Safety Teams.

Community Mobilization and Safe Schools

• Half- or full-day course for school staff, concerned citizens and public safety officials, designed to enhance school safety and community awareness of juvenile issues, stressing partnerships, collaboration and communication.

Prevention/Intervention/Response

Creating a Safety Culture

• Explains how it is essential to understand the meaning of the word “culture” in order to creating a climate of safety and security within the school. Discusses how everyone plays a role and has responsibilities for establishing and maintaining a culture of safety.

Multi-hazard Problem Solving for Safe Schools

• For administrators, counselors and teachers, course provides formalized process and specific instructions to use in proactive problem-solving that leads to positive resolutions. Discusses the SARA (Scanning, Analysis, Response, Assessment) Model of problem solving.

Crisis Response and Tabletop Scenarios

• For educators and emergency responders, this course presents information on planning, assessing, emergency coordination, communications and training. Provides step-by-step procedures to follow when designing tabletop scenarios.

Threat Assessment

• One-day course for administrators, counselors and public safety officials highlights the latest information on threat assessment, intervention and response. Features information on classifying threats; developing a specialized threat assessment team; responding to all levels of threats; post-threat evaluation; and proper follow-up procedures.

Incident Command System (ICS) for Schools

• For school administrators and Crisis Response Teams, course presents information on National Incident Management System (NIMS) structures in standardized, on-scene, all-hazard management concept.

Redesigning for School Safety and Current Technologies

1. One-day course for all personnel, examines the basics of Crime Prevention. Through Environmental Design (CPTED), focusing on how to increase the safety of schools, playgrounds, and transportation areas. Features analysis of past school incidents, recommendations on modifications, and a study of current delay, detection and deterrent technologies available for school safety.

Counter-Terrorism: Protecting our Schools and Communities

• Two day course for educators and law enforcers whose duties include conducting vulnerability studies and  threat assessments in and around school campuses. Features information on active security, target analysis, partnerships, and updating crisis response plans to include terrorism. Threat alert and notification systems are discussed, and sample templates are provided.

Creating a Safety Culture in Schools

• For educators and students, this course demonstrates methods to create changes in the school environment that will make school safer. Includes policies and procedures and empowerment activities for students to create a safety culture on campus.

Safe School Terminology

• For administrators, faculty and staff, this training outlines standardized safe school terms and their proper usage. Includes discussion of such terms as shelter-in-place, lockdown, evacuation (all types), and reunion site.

Bullying and Harassment: Interventions and Preventions

• An interactive examination of the problem of bulling and harassment in our schools, this course features sections on the types of bullying, the characteristics of offenders and victims, the effects of fear in the school, types of harassment, and successful solutions including conducting a comprehensive anti-bullying campaign.

Protecting School Events

• For administrators, Crisis Response personnel, and Campus Safety Teams. This course covers risk analysis, vulnerability studies, campus safety and security audits, and other preparation necessary to prepare for school and community events. Discusses the types of drills that may need to be practiced, as well as different types of assessments that can be conducted to assist a district with planning.

School Safety for Emergency Responders

• One-day program for school staff and public safety officials providing basic training in school safety for emergency response when seconds count, so that emergency responders will be properly prepared to deal with a school crisis.

Crisis Communications

• For administrators and anyone responsible for communicating with public during a crisis or emergency incident, course provides information to enhance capabilities and improve skills regarding crisis communications for schools.

Managing a Multi-Agency School Crisis Simulation

• Full-day program for administrators and staff which provides instruction on how to plan, manage and implement a school safety simulation for multiple jurisdictions. Includes organizing, forming an Observation Team of key individuals, and how to gain the most from this safety scenario. Will review school crisis response plan, lockdown policies and evacuation planning. Optional plans addressed include violence, severe weather, suicide, and accidents.

School Planning for Pandemic Emergencies

• Full-day program for administrators assists school officials in developing preparation and response plans to pandemic emergencies which may affect the District. The course includes awareness, prevention, and response modules with a section on continuity of operations for schools facing pandemic emergencies.

Train-the-Trainer

CASS – Train the Trainer

• Two-day certification course for administrators, counselors and teachers, providing CASS training with written curriculum, videos, participant manuals and PowerPoint CD presentation.

CASS for KIDS – Train the Trainer

• One-day certification course for administrators, counselors and teachers teaches how to provide CASS for KIDS in their schools. Written curriculum, participant manual, complete PowerPoint CD presentation and supporting materials provided.

Youth Programs

CASS for KIDS

• Half-day course for junior high and high school students is an interactive skills-based program focusing on violence prevention, campus assessment and anger management. Also includes semester-long proactive student safety activities.