Name: PREPaRE Workshop 2
Start: 2026-01-15T08:00:00-05:00
End: 2026-01-15T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Allegheny Intermediate Unit - Central Office

PREPaRE Workshop 2 of 2 focusing on Mental Health Crisis Interventions
About this Event

PREPaRE Workshop 2 - Mental Health Crisis Interventions: Responding to an Acute Traumatic Stressor in Schools

Note: This is a two day event, taking place on Jan. 15 & 16 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. You MUST attend both days of the workshop to achieve credit.

Free to attend

Earn Act 48 Credit Hours with this event!

Presenters:

Nick Fratto M.S.ED, Special Education Supervisor/Special Projects Coordinator
Shannon Fagan, MS, Program Coordinator

Overview: In this 2-day workshop, participants will develop the knowledge and skill required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. The knowledge and skills developed within this session also help to build a bridge to the psychotherapeutic and trauma-informed mental health response sometimes required to address challenges associated with trauma exposure.

Target Audience: School-employed mental health professionals (school psychologists, counselors, social workers, and nurses), community mental health providers who support schools, as well as administrators and other support staff who should understand the types of interventions and supports necessary to effectively meet short- and long-term student, staff, and parent needs.

WS2 Learner Objectives: This workshop will help participants acquire increased knowledge, skills, and confidence to:

Provide school mental health crisis interventions.
Identify variables that help to estimate the number of individuals traumatized by a crisis.
Recognize the differences between common crisis reactions and mental illness.
Identify the elements of school crisis preparedness specified by the PREPaRE acronym.
Recognize risk factors that predict psychological trauma.
Identify the warning signs that indicate psychological trauma.
Place PREPaRE mental health crisis interventions on a multitiered continuum ranging from least to most restrictive.
Match degree of psychological trauma risk to the appropriate school crisis interventions.

Contact Hours: 13 hours of in-person training + completion of pretest, posttest, and evaluation. Provides 13 hours of NASP[1]approved CPD.