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Is your school ready to respond to a crisis? Is school staff ready to address physical safety issues, emotional needs, and mental health consequences that arise from crisis situations? What steps can you take now to prepare your school for a crisis? Use the steps and guidance offered in this book to answer these and other questions critical to surviving any crisis that touches a school. Tens of thousands of school and community professionals have used this model; you can adapt it to address your unique situation. Whether you need to address a crisis in the school building, across the district, or throughout a region, this model and practical guidelines lead you to answers that form a framework critical to controlling crisis situations. The authors provide a model that is complete with sample plans, forms, checklists, and resources that you can use in crisis training, preparation, and response. With an emphasis on integrating safety and security plans with mental health services, the authors show you how to use the talents, training, and knowledge of school personnel to coordinate a comprehensive response to any crisis. This model empowers staff to initiate and sustain a response to crises that answers the physical safety, mental health, and emotional needs of students, community, and staff. How to Prepare and Respond to a Crisis, 2nd edition, is a compilation of essential information on school crisis management. The information is based on the work of the School Crisis Response Initiative of the National Center for Children Exposed to Violence at the Yale Child Study Center.

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