RISE (School Personnel)

RISE is the Center for Safer Schools' signature event.

By NC Center for Safer Schools

Date and time

July 31, 2023 · 8am - August 2, 2023 · 5pm EDT

Location

Gastonia Conference Center

145 Doctor Martin Luther King Jr. Way Gastonia, NC 28052

About this event

For school personnel, RISE will focus on the following Work Tracks:

• Engaging Schools and Communities – this might include effectively utilizing school and community teams for issues such as threat assessment, suicide prevention, social emotional learning, substance abuse prevention, gang reduction and basic school safety for support staff, etc.

• School Climate and Multi-tiered Systems of Support – this might include evidenced-based social emotional curricula, Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, collaborations with community-based efforts related to SB 105 or community Restorative Justice programs, etc.

• Information/Intelligence Gathering – this might include how you utilize social media, information sharing and Family Educational Records Privacy Act (FERPA), threat assessment processes, utilizing data to inform your discipline and alternatives to suspension efforts, etc.

• Emergency Management, Crisis Response and Recovery – this might include trauma-informed guidelines for drills, recovery after an emergency at your school, dealing with the media, etc.

• From Research/Theory to Practice – this might include brain development in youth, delinquency and violence prevention, bullying/cyberbullying evidenced-based programs, etc.

When you register, be sure to select the Work Track you’re interested in.

Organized by

The Center for Safer Schools is housed in the N.C. Department of Public Instruction. DPI, with its expertise in the fields of student support services, facilitating safe environments for learning, and continuing education training for teachers, is uniquely situated to ensure that communities in North Carolina receive the information and technical assistance they need to become better prepared to prevent and respond to all forms of school safety threats. The Center for Safer Schools provides a one-stop shop of school safety information and customer services to schools, law enforcement, youth-serving agencies, juvenile justice officials, community leaders, policymakers, parents and students.

 

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