Safety Division Courses and Workshops
K12 Schools

This workshop will offer practical guidance on the topics of addressing difficult and dangerous behavior. We will address common challenges related to disruptive and entitled behavior, mental illness referrals, understanding the accommodation process, and managing challenges posed by COVID.

This program addresses the challenges of talking to your children about bullying and teasing behavior that occurs in school, with friends, and online. We will share the warning signs to look for, how to talk about these issues with their children, and the importance of understanding how a variety of factors may make children targets for teasing and bullying.

Our expert trainers can provide a one-day on-site or live online training on crisis media relations, giving you the skills needed to handle the demands of the 24-hour news cycle and get your message out in a clear, timely, and efficient manner.

Large-scale emergency incidents and disasters can occur anywhere, on any school campus. This course can be taught in either 4- or 8-hour formats and is designed to both refresh and train your campus emergency management team and to give them the tools that will enable them to manage a wide variety of emergency situations.

This three-hour course is designed for first responders (law enforcement, fire, medical), public employees (school officials, public utilities, hospital workers) critical businesses and their families to prepare for a disaster.

This workshop is about learning the terminology that relates to gender identity and learning about other perspectives and world views relating to gender. Whether you are new to these ideas or simply want to learn more, we have a place for you in our classes. This training is not about shame, blame, forced change, demanded acceptance, or agreement. Our workshops have been designed to foster engagement for the purpose of connection, belonging, and safety for all groups of people.

This workshop will review a wide range of challenging topics that are being addressed in our society including political divides, mask and vaccine mandates, social justice movements, defund the police, abortion, antisemitism, and LGBTQI+ rights. We will offer a structured approach to engage in these topics with an eye towards civility, respect and principled debate.

This workshop will review the importance of looking for signs and symptoms of suicidal behavior and understanding how best to help them access services. Particular attention will be given to treatment resistant individuals (e.g., those who do not wish to attend counseling) and groups that historically have underutilized services (e.g., LGBTQ+, African Americans).

Drawing from their book, An Educators Guide to Assessing Threats in Student Writing, Dr. Van Brunt and Jeff Solomon will teach participant what to look for when viewing written and video content that may occur on social media, over email or in creative writing assignments.

This workshop will provide an opportunity to better understand will define microaggressions, the unconscious manifestations of privilege that contain the potential to impact marginalized groups further negatively, using examples related to gender, culture, race/ethnicity, mental health, generational differences, physical disability, and sexual orientation.