Trauma-Informed Return to School: Secondary (Group)

Trainer: Ocean Van Samang, Senior Advisor for Mental Health
1.5-hour session

(This session is pre-recorded)

This session is intended for staff and community partners who support school safety and critical incident/trauma-related matters including:

• Principals, Vice Principals and individuals who support school safety, culture and climate
• Educators and school administrators according to school/district needs
• Community partners who support threat risk assessment and violence prevention
  (e.g. RCMP, municipal police, child protection social worker, child and youth mental health worker)

Topics covered include:

• What is trauma, and how this impacts youth?
• Understand what kind of trauma youth may have been exposed to while physical distancing.
• Students already on our ‘radar’ pre-pandemic – what are we doing to support them?
• Trauma-Informed Practice (TIP) and the students return to class.
• The importance of staying connected with High-Risk and Vulnerable Youth.
• Changes in baseline behavior currently seen by Safer Schools Together regarding High-Risk and Vulnerable Youth.
• Providing links to various resources.