Technical Training + Support
Montana Safe Schools Center has the ability to provide a variety of trainings to Montana schools and school professionals. We hope these trainings and their supplemental information allow our schools to react better to and be better prepared for emergencies.
Montana Safe Schools Center can provide trainings on anything listed below. Please contact us to set up a training for your school or staff.
Mental Health & Wellness Trainings
Question, Persuade, Refer (QPR)
This training is a 1.5-hour suicide prevention training to recognize warning signs and refer individuals for help.
SafeTalk
This training is a 3-hour training to identify and connect individuals with thoughts of suicide to resources.
Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs)
ACEs are potentially traumatic events that occur in childhood — including, but not limited to, violence, abuse, and exposure to substance abuse. Stress from ACEs can change brain development and affect how the body responds to stress. This training will teach participants how to recognize symptoms of toxic stress and explore strategies that support student resilience.
ASIST
This training is a 16-hour workshop for intervening and supporting individuals at risk of suicide.
Resilience Building
This training offers strategies to foster resilience in students and staff.
Happiness
Positive psychology-based session to cultivate happiness in school communities.
Impacts of Stress on the Developing Brain
How chronic stress affects brain development and strategies for mitigation.
Trauma-Informed Schools
HEARTS model and Linking Systems of Care for trauma-responsive schools.
School Safety and Emergency Preparedness Trainings
Nuts and Bolts of School Safety
Training is tailored for all staff and educators in K-12 settings and will cover school safety 101, impact of trauma on brain development, de-escalation strategies, behavioral threat assessment and management, and happiness practices.
Creating an Emergency Operations Plan (EOP)
EOPs detail what a school will do during a disaster including incident command and crisis response. EOPs should be developed as an all-hazards plan and be integrated with local EOPs and coalition plans for information and resource sharing. A high-quality school EOP is feasible, complete, and compliant with state and local requirements. Processes should be adapted based on unique characteristics of the school, district, and situation.
Standard Response Protocol (SRP)
A uniform, planned and practiced response to any incident is the foundation of a safe school. The “I Love U Guys!” Foundation has prepared shared language and a coordinated action response from administration down to students. The SRP develops the muscle memory necessary to respond in crisis and drastically mitigates risk and endangerment. More information can be found here.
Reunification
Reunification is the process used to assure the return of students in your care to an authorized adult, in any circumstance other than your expected end-of-day procedure. This includes providing positive documentation of these actions. More information can be found here.
Advanced Law Enforcement Rapid Response Training (ALERRT): Civilian Response to Active Shooter Events (CRASE)
This is a PowerPoint based presentation designed and built on the Avoid, Deny, Defend (ADD) strategy. The training is supported by the University of Montana’s Chief of Police. It covers the history and prevalence of active shooter events, civilian response options, medical issues, and considerations for conducting drills.
Incident Command System 101
Introduction to ICS principles for school personnel.
Narcan
Covers opioid facts and how to administer Narcan.
Behavioral Intervention and Student Support Trainings
De-escalation Techniques
Tools for calming agitated individuals respectfully.
Behavior is Communication
Understanding the messages behind student behavior.
Impacts of Bullying on the Developing Brain
How bullying affects neurological development.
Threat Assessment & Law Enforcement Collaboration Trainings
Partnering with Schools
Training for law enforcement to collaborate with schools.
Threat Assessment – Level 1
The Department of Homeland Security says that behavioral threat assessment for K-12 schools is a process of identification, investigation, management, and assessment around school threats. This is a team-based approach to determine the best ways to help, mitigate, and support a person away from violence to themselves or others.
Threat Assessment – Level 2
Policy development and procedural implementation.
Threat Assessment – Level 3
Safety planning and next steps.
Child Protection & Online Safety Training
Child Exploitation & Human Trafficking
This is a 1.5-hour session on recognizing and responding to exploitation.
ChildHelp Training
For adults and students on online exploitation risks.
Tiered Approaches to School Safety
Aligning safety practices with MTSS framework.
Technical Assistance
Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools (REMS) Site Assessment
MSSC can provide this assessment at physical site locations for K-12 schools to examine building safety, security, accessibility, and emergency preparedness. At the conclusion of the assessment, a written report is created to generate ideas and areas that must or should be addressed — allowing for identification and mitigation of short and long term issues.
Nine-module Cybersecurity Course
MSSC, in conjunction with its University of Montana partners, have created a cybersecurity course to provide research, training, and best practices to keep schools safe from cyberattacks. A completed course should result in better understanding of how to defend computers, servers, networks, electronic systems, and data from malicious attacks. The course can be taken for a micro-credential.
Safety Drills & Exercises
MT schools must hold eight disaster drills a year. These can include, but are not limited to, fire, lockdown, evacuation, reunification, communication, and intruder. MSSC is also able to provide faculty and staff with an armed intruder course. More info.
Review and Assist with Emergency Operations Plans (EOP)
Answer Questions regarding School Safety
Montana Safe Schools Center can provide trainings on anything listed above. Please contact us to set up a training for your school or staff.
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