Trauma-Informed Return to School: Secondary (Individual)

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

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