Event Details

PLEASE NOTE DATE CHANGE OF DAY 2:

Date: May 6 and May 20, 2025

Time: 8:00AM - 3:30PM

Cost: Free, lunch is provided

Location: Ottawa County Administration Building - Main Conference Room, 12220 Fillmore St West Olive, MI 49460

(Go in the front entrance, go down the hallway to the right, and the conference room is on the right with a sign that says “Main Conference Room”)

Participants are required to attend both days of PREPaRE Workshop 2. PREPaRE Workshop 1 and Workshop 2 are stand alone trainings. Participants are not required to attend PREPaRE Workshops in any sequential order. Participants are not required to attend both workshops. 

There is a small amount of pre-work required to attend this event. You will receive an email one week prior to the training with more details. Some handouts will either need to be printed ahead of time or accessed electronically during the workshop. Please plan accordingly. If you need to borrow a Chromebook, please email Mandy Laninga (mlaninga@oaisd.org).

Registration will close on April 22. If you need cancel your registration, please do so through your Wisdomwhere account prior to this date. After April 22, please email Frankie Badur (FBadur@oaisd.org) to make changes to your registration. SCECHs and social work CEUs have been approved for this training. 

If you have questions, please contact Frankie Badur FBadur@oaisd.org

PREPaRE Workshop 2 is appropriate for any individual providing direct crisis intervention, crisis teams, and district and building administrators. This includes school mental health staff (school psychologists, social workers, counselors, and nurses), administrators, and other individuals whom the team has identified as appropriate.

This workshop will help: 

1. Reduce anxiety and fear associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions;

2. Increase knowledge and confidence associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions;

3. Identify variables that help to estimate the number of individuals traumatized by a crisis;

4. Recognize the difference between common crisis reactions and mental illness;

5. Identify the elements of school crisis preparedness specified by the PREPaRE acronym;

6. Recognize risk factors that predict psychological trauma;

7. Identify the warning signs that indicate psychological trauma;

8. Place PREPaRE mental health crisis interventions on a multitiered continuum ranging from least to most restrictive; and

9. Match the degree of psychological trauma risk to the appropriate school crisis interventions.