Team Training (Multi-Day Training) Overview: This multi-day crisis team training is flexible, but generally provides a strong mix of administrative and organizational issues and skills and issues related to meeting human emotional needs in the aftermath of crisis, tragedy and trauma. Depending on the content chosen, this is a three- to five-day training. The usual five-day agenda and content include: administrative and organizational issues (1/2 day) grief, loss and bereavement (1/2 day) suicide prevention and intervention (one day) trauma -- prevention of PTSD for victims (one day) facilitating Safe Rooms (3/4 day) memory activities (tributes to the deceased) (1/4 day) pragmatics of getting through the day (1/2 day) final session of networking, moving forward (1/2 day) We are flexible with content, so if greater needs lie in other areas, substitutions and changes can be made. Scheduling such a great commitment of time is also flexible. Because some districts don't want counselors and team members out of their buildings for a whole week, we often break the training into two sessions, with perhaps a couple or three weeks in between. The only down side of this is that it doubles the travel costs. We are also creating options for participants to take two of the five days via on-demand online training prior to three days of face-to-face training. Goals: This training provides the opportunity to take your team from wherever it is to a giant step upward in terms of skill level, organizational strategy and competence. The content is organized to create buy-in between administrators and the team, and to provide the greatest insight possible in a variety of options for collaboration. Intended audience: We look at the team as having several key components. Administrators and department heads attend for at least the first and last mornings, and are encouraged to attend additional segments as well. Those who are more in a care-giving role (counselors, school psychologists, nurses, teachers, and others who will focus on providing emotional support to students, staff and parents) attend all five days. Districts are encouraged to also include bi-lingual aides, a couple of dependable substitutes, a few clerical staff, perhaps some librarians and others who work with students in all grade levels in the school. Those additional people would attend the whole five days. For those districts that are ready to have the highest level of capacity, in addition to having collaborative teams that involve several districts, we suggest that you invite local agencies that provide mental health and support services to youth. These might include children's mental health workers, hospital social workers, juvenile detention program staff and others who would both benefit from the content as well as build a school/agency model of collaboration. Prerequisites: None. Related materials: Required: The Crisis Resource Manual and Training Manual Set. Recommended: The Safe Room book and/or The Catastrophic Events Resource Manual Handouts provided.