PREPaRE - Prevent & Prepare

Question 1

What are the 4 Phases of Crisis Management?

Answer 1

1. Prevention (action taken by schools to reduce the likihood that an emergency will occur) Mitigation (the actions to reduce risk to injury, death, and damage during an emergency)
2. Preparedness (phase that readies a school to respond to a crisis in a coordinated and effective manner)
3. Response (enacting the policies and proceedures to manage and protect the school community)
4. Recovery (effects to quickly restore educational and business operations following and incident. Includes mental, emotional, and physical)

Question 2

What are some examples of approaches to ensure physical safety?

Answer 2

1. Crime Prevention through Evironmental Design
   
   • Natural Surveillance
   • Territoriality
   • Natural Access Control
2. Vulnerability Assessments

Question 3

What are some examples of approaches to ensure psychological safety?

Answer 3

1. School wide postive behavioral supports
2. Multi-tiered System of Supports (MTSS) universal, targeted, and intensive academic and behaviroal supports
3. Indentification and monitoring of self- and other directed violence threats
4. Student guidance services

Question 4

What should you do to prepare for crisis intervention?

Answer 4

1. develop immediate crisis intervention resources
2. indentify long term resources

Ex: crisis teams and school based supports and a list of out side resources

Question 5

What types of resiliency is beneficial to prepare for and help prevent psychological trauma?

Answer 5

1. Internal resiliency
2. External resiliency

Question 6

What are approaces to foster Internal resilency?

Answer 6

1. Promating active and positive coping styles
2. Promoting student mental health
3. teaching students/staff how to better regulate emotions
4. Develop problem solving skills
5. Promate self confidence and self esteem
6. Promote internal locus of control
7. validate the importance of faith and belief systems
8. Nuture positive emotions
9. Foast academic determination and a sense of competence

Question 7

What are approaces to foster external resiliency?

Answer 7

1. Support families
2. Facilitate positive peer relationships
3. Provide access to positive adult role models
4. Ensure connections with prosocial institutions
5. Provide a safe caring, supportive learning environment
6. Encourage volunteerism
7. Teach peace building skills

Question 8

What are some ways to prevent trauma exposure?

Answer 8

1. Keep students safe
   
   • remove from unsafe, dangerous or harmful situations
   • implement crisis proceedures
2. Avoid crisis scenes and images
   
   • move ambulatory students away from the crisis site
   • Restrict and/or monitor media exposure (avoid excessivce viewing)