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Crisis Intervention Strategy

The document outlines a crisis intervention strategy for responding to a school crisis. It involves assembling a crisis intervention team led by a response coordinator. The team includes coordinators overseeing media relations, community medical liaisons, parent communication, and school security. The response coordinator and principal call meetings to inform staff and begin counseling distressed students and teachers. The goal is to control information sharing, assess needs, and begin processing the crisis.

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Crisis Intervention Strategy

The document outlines a crisis intervention strategy for responding to a school crisis. It involves assembling a crisis intervention team led by a response coordinator. The team includes coordinators overseeing media relations, community medical liaisons, parent communication, and school security. The response coordinator and principal call meetings to inform staff and begin counseling distressed students and teachers. The goal is to control information sharing, assess needs, and begin processing the crisis.

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CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGY

SCHOOL CRISIS INTERVENTION/TEAM


1) RESPONSE COORDINATOR ! - sets up the ENTIRE TEAM and ALL MEETINGS (does not run the mtgs) ! (takes about 20 minutes to set up everyone/everything) ! - meets with the Principal ! ! - I"m here to help you in any way I can- however I am also here to set up ! ! ! a crisis intervention team, so I need to ask you some questions... ! ! - Tone and speech with principal must be commanding and response ! ! ! ! ! coordinator must QUICKLY ASSESS psychological state of principal ! - After initial meeting is set up with all faculty, and Crisis Intervention Coordinator is set, ! response coordinator sets up the media liaison, community medical liaison, and parent liaison. ! - has a command center room ! - Response coordinator has the plan and puts people in place ! - Principal needs to IMMEDIATELY call a faculty meeting/ ALL STAFF (if a principal feels ! teachers are overwhelmed/experienced too much, they should meet individually/separately) ! 2) CRISIS INTERVENTION COORDINATOR ! - In charge of putting together all !interventions and assessment ! - puts together Crisis Intervention Team: ! ! -Psychologists, Counselors, Psychiatrists, TEACHERS, AND STUDENTS ! ! - See individually: Eyewitnesses, Students identied by staff, etc. and do ! ! ! ! CRISIS counseling ! 3) MEDIA COORDINATOR/LIAISON* ! *No one talks to anybody-- reporters spread rumors which cause suicides ! - closely watches the news and is in charge of all information ! - works with assistants to develop statement to release to the media ! -NO ONE TALKS TO THE MEDIA EXCEPT THIS TEAM

4) COMMUNITY MEDICAL LIAISON ! - communicates with the hospital via hospital reports (what really happened and how much can ! ! we share?) ! - reiterates to parents EXACTLY what the ER Physician stated (no more/no less; just the facts, ! ! no opinions*) ! - involved in mental health triage (a system of assessment deciding who needs attn rst and/or ! ! most) ! *Info given in a crisis= minimalist truth

CRISIS INTERVENTION STRATEGY

5) PARENT LIAISON ! - communicates directly with all school parents ! - brings in translators immediately (very often in a crisis people regress to their 1st language) ! - communicates with ALL the other members of the team, because parents want !to know ! everything ! - informally psychologically evaluates parents to see who is in distress

6) SECURITY LIAISON ! - communicates with police, FD, etc. ! - in charge of safety of students and staff in school ! - constantly checks safety of everyone in school (does not rely on police) ! - communicates regularly with media regarding safety ! - communicates with parent liaison regarding safety

RESPONSE COORDINATOR+ PRINCIPAL CALL A MEETING: ! -2 meeting rooms (big meeting run by intervention coordinator and small room ! ! ! ! for ancillary meeting run by mental health interventionist) ! ! ! - small room for distressed teachers/staff ! ! ! - a large group single intervention ! - give them information; tell them what happened, what is happening next, etc. (what is ! ! presented to media, what info from hospital) Warn teachers: DO NOT TALK TO ANYONE ABOUT THIS CRISIS EXCEPT EACH OTHER-! ! DO NOT TALK TO THE MEDIA OR PARENTS ! ! (focusing on rumors will just make the situation worse) ! - No one is to enter the school with a cell phone; report this to security immediately ! - Message board posted: every piece of new info we get we put on that wall ! - Tell teachers that when students come in, do not teach regular subject, but bring up what ! happened and ask students what they think and how they feel about it; get students to tell ! the story and how they felt; Note/Write down students who look particularly distressed - Classes/Teachers should stay on the crisis topic for as long as the students need (it might take even a week of straight processing in classes); Don"t normalize things too soon.

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