Participants will learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety. The workshop addresses critical components needed to develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams and plans and conduct building vulnerability assessments. The model also integrates school personnel and community provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities.

The PREPaRE curriculum has been developed by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) as part of NASP's decade-long leadership in providing evidence-based resources and consultation related to school crisis prevention and response. PREPaRE training is ideal for schools committed to improving and strengthening their school safety and crisis management plans and emergency response.

This training is open to all school mental health professionals, administrators, teachers, security officers, other pupil services personnel, and any other personnel who need to understand how comprehensive school crisis team is organized and functions.

There is no fee to attend and all materials will be provided by the SDE. Lunch is on your own.

As a former student leader and current college speaker, Chris Collins gets it! Chris’ take on student leadership is one of the most interesting in the country because he blends his knowledge of leadership strategies, love of music, authentic desire to help students, to create a message that reaches students of every level. Come learn from the best and take away actionable strategies for increasing student voice and engagement in your schools and programs.

No meals provided. This session is open to anyone wanting to register for it.

This pre-conference will showcase all things Sources of Strength for secondary schools. Attendees will enhance their knowledge and implementation of Sources of Sources of Strength in their school through an exploration of the website and resources, playing of games, planning and implementation of campaigns, messaging, and activities, a real-time, half-hour Sources Team Meeting, a thorough conversation on brain research and effectiveness of the program, and a final Q and A with Sources of Strength Adult Advisors from around the state. Attendees will leave with an epic, resource filled, take home bag.

This session is open to middle, junior, and senior high school staff that implemented Sources of Strength in their building.

There is no fee to attend and all materials will be provided by the SDE. Lunch is on your own.

This meeting will be an opportunity for alternative school leaders to hear updates from the State Department of Education, share best practices, and learn about resources available for their schools.  More information will be available closer to the meeting date.

• Learn strategies that allow for continuous improvement of student safety and vulnerability reduction.
• Become familiar with the 15 identified indicators of behaviors.
• Gain awareness of BTAM processes and ideas for overcoming barriers to participation and communication pitfalls.
• Discover effective practices for emergency communications.
• Uncover the secrets to creating effective law enforcement partnerships.
• Walk away with a better understanding of the five stages of school safety.

• Enhance your understanding of the powerful role of experiences on early brain development and the lifelong impact of those experiences.
• Pivot your perspective from Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences (HOPE) as a protective framework for supporting students.
• Learn what students are communicating through their behaviors and how to support students who become dysregulated.
• Explore how to foster resiliency from a schoolwide systems point of view.
• Learn about new opportunities to fund evidence-based, community-focused strategies that integrate student supports districtwide.
• Expand your capacity to build and maintain personal resiliency by reflecting on your own early experiences.

• Gain a more comprehensive understanding of the importance of upstream prevention and identify evidence-based resources.
• Learn about the differences between upstream and downstream prevention and which practices work best for your school community’s needs.
• Discuss ideas, resources, and programs that support substance misuse prevention specific to developmental age and grade level.
• Become well-versed on the impact of fentanyl in Idaho communities and learn how to administer the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan.
• Explore the role assessment centers in Idaho and the positive impact they have had preventing substance misuse among youth.

• Walk away with the resources and confidence needed to host a successful suicide prevention parent or community engagement event.
• Gain a better understanding on how to support students and their families within the parameters of the updated Parental Bill of Rights.
• Learn how and when to partner with Child Protective Services to ensure student safety.
• Learn about the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and how and when to use it.
• Become proficient in practical intervention strategies through Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) training.
• Reconsider the role of postvention through the lens of renewal and recovery for your entire school community.

• Gain insight into the research and strategies that support implementation of a healthy school climate. 
• Learn about the impact of social media and how to promote cyber safety within your school environment.
• Discover how community mapping can be used as a resource for collecting feedback about and enhancing your school’s climate.
• Increase awareness of the components needed to develop an equitable school climate.
• Identify actionable strategies any educator can use to promote the foundations of school climate, student engagement, and safe educational environments.

This meeting will be an opportunity for alternative school leaders to hear updates from the State Department of Education, share best practices, and learn about resources available for their schools.  More information will be available closer to the meeting date.

A journey about how Chris went from a knucklehead kid on the south side of Chicago to a knucklehead adult helping equip folks to be the dopest version of themselves! Leave feeling empowered to lead and act beyond your title and experience, ready to make an impact on your organization, your community, and your future.

This presentation will educate attendees on the many facets of drug use and abuse, sexting, sexualization, and sexual misconduct through the many social media avenues. Deputy Gomez will break down the ways that social media "normalizes" and "glamorizes" drug use and abuse.

The Idaho Coalition for Community Schools was recently awarded a 5-year $46.5 million Community Schools statewide expansion grant.

The Community School Strategy is creating lasting change for students and families by coordinating resources and partnerships through local schools to increase family stability and expand opportunities for all students. Students often face barriers outside the classroom that make it difficult for them to be successful inside the classroom. By finding the right partners to help address these barriers, children and families are supported both inside and outside the classroom. As a hyper-local strategy that is nationally recognized and has a growing evidence base, Community Schools have an impressive return on investment and are an effective way of leveraging local strengths of a community to address their unique challenges.

Join us to learn about the growth of Community Schools throughout Idaho, the new Rural Expansion Initiative of the Coalition and the upcoming opportunities for your school district to engage.

"The Upstanders" film addresses resilience and the impact of connection to end bullying and cyberbullying.

Join us for this interactive session where educators will learn about the significant impact of a positive school climate on student achievement and staff well-being, with an intentional focus on enhancing support for historically underserved students. This workshop offers practical strategies to help create a teaching and learning environment where everyone is regulated, connected, and ready to engage. Participants will explore the importance of student-staff relationships and gain an understanding of how brain development and stress responses can inform and improve educational practices. Attendees will discover how to recognize and respond to signs of dysregulation in students and adults and how their own responses to stress can influence interactions within the educational space. This session will build upon participants’ knowledge and tools to build an equitable and safe learning community, valuing each individual's unique contributions and forging strong, lasting connections that bolster lifelong learning and development.

The physical environment of creating safe and supportive spaces is one of the most important aspects of school climate and culture is a feeling of safety. In this session, participants will examine the factors that contribute to this sense of safety and learn how to take practical steps to facilitate its development. 

To build a positive school climate and culture, educators cannot work in isolation. In this session, participants will consider how building partnerships with stakeholders can increase positive outcomes for students and educators. 

Toxic positivity is not the answer to the growing challenges that educators and students face in the current educational climate. In this session, participants will review research-based best practices for facilitating positive change in school climate and culture that are field-tested by the presenter and Strobel Education clients.

Participants will use and learn how to deliver effective, quick scenario-based learning opportunities to their own safety teams. Emphasis will be on increasing both the effective working capacity of the emergency team, as well as identifying vulnerabilities in the planning process.

This program creates a structure to reduce the impact of traumatic experiences during and after an event/disaster. This is a preparation and prevention strategy that creates "boots on the ground" to meet the immediate biological, psychological and social needs of the community. This model mobilizes community members, first responders and natural leaders within the community to address immediate needs when access to mental health providers is often limited or inaccessible. Utilizing the Community Resilience Model (CRM) as a strategic and coordinated approach, can create intentional support within schools and their communities to respond to crisis and disaster with intention.

Idaho Association of School Resource Officers Board Members will provide a comprehensive look into the responsibilities of SROs, specifically detailing what these professionals can, can't, should, or shouldn't do in their work in schools.

Communications is the most commonly reported failure point in after action reports from school incidents.  It is also a common failure point in a school’s daily operations. Emphasis, in this session, will be placed on best practices in the effective use of available systems, development and implementation of effective practices, and processes for the improvement of staff communications capacity in both daily and emergency operations. Participants will receive a variety of strategies to increase communications capabilities at both the school and district level.

The Idaho Standard Command Response for Schools (ISCRS) is a initial response framework developed by Idaho educators and first responders to meet the unique resource needs of Idaho Schools. This framework is standardized throughout the state and is freely available to any Idaho school emergency response team.

Recovery can be the most difficult aspect of emergency response to generate a sense of urgency, but it is often the most overlooked, and the most costly if not done effectively. Participants will receive an overview of a targeted violence incident in Idaho but will focus on the days, weeks and months following the event to bring the school community back to a positive learning environment.

All human beings have four basic Universal Needs- Belonging, Independence, Mastery and Generosity. By assessing student behaviors using this framework you will be able to ensure basic needs are met and students are prepared to engage with their classroom environment. Using these tools can also create opportunities to build intentional connections with students and focus on their strengths and resilience factors.

The Idaho Coalition for Community Schools was recently awarded a 5-year $46.5 million Community Schools statewide expansion grant.

The Community School Strategy is creating lasting change for students and families by coordinating resources and partnerships through local schools to increase family stability and expand opportunities for all students. Students often face barriers outside the classroom that make it difficult for them to be successful inside the classroom. By finding the right partners to help address these barriers, children and families are supported both inside and outside the classroom. As a hyper-local strategy that is nationally recognized and has a growing evidence base, Community Schools have an impressive return on investment and are an effective way of leveraging local strengths of a community to address their unique challenges.

Join us to learn about the growth of Community Schools throughout Idaho, the new Rural Expansion Initiative of the Coalition and the upcoming opportunities for your school district to engage.

HOPE—Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences—and ACE—Adverse Childhood Experiences—are key concepts in understanding what we need to do in our homes and communities to create the best environments for children to thrive. When we say “HOPE Conquers ACEs” we mean that when children grow up with a preponderance of positive experiences in their lives and when we can reduce the adverse experiences, whole generations of children’s lives will be better. This workshop will explore how HOPE practice builds resilience and can transform the way we think about how kids succeed.

The School as a Protective Factor approach represents an evidence-based attempt to build on the foundation provided by previous work on student resilience and school climate while addressing previously identified limitations of those concepts. The School as a Protective Factor approach offers a new framework for conceptualizing, measuring, and establishing protective social environments that co-promote academic achievement and student health in schools, especially student mental health and substance use/abuse prevention. The School as a Protective Factor approach presents a simple, easy-to-use means of ensuring a school social environment that meets the developmental, academic, and health needs of all children and adolescents while maximizing protection across a range of desired outcomes. Perhaps most importantly, it does so in a manner that is manageable and easily integrated into every aspect of schooling, likely to resonate with the practical experience of school personnel, and includes brief, effective, and free measurement tools.

Resilience is a complicated and often coded word for unhealthy boundaries, tolerating painful conditions, and accepting the status quo. In this session we will dive into new ways to see resilience, honor our lived experiences, and engage in a way to see and connect with each other.

We influence and help kids through the power of presence and our relationships. And… the stress of life and caring for so many others can take its toll on our ability to be whole and available to those who need us most. In this session, we will take time to be present and remind ourselves of the factors that make us resilient and effective caregivers. Caring for ourselves and being whole and healthy is the foundation for being an effective helping professional. In this session we will: Define Resilience, examine four factors that increase resilience for those in the helping professions, and set goals that move us to a healthier and more resilient professional.

The Idaho Coalition for Community Schools was recently awarded a 5-year $46.5 million Community Schools statewide expansion grant.

The Community School Strategy is creating lasting change for students and families by coordinating resources and partnerships through local schools to increase family stability and expand opportunities for all students. Students often face barriers outside the classroom that make it difficult for them to be successful inside the classroom. By finding the right partners to help address these barriers, children and families are supported both inside and outside the classroom. As a hyper-local strategy that is nationally recognized and has a growing evidence base, Community Schools have an impressive return on investment and are an effective way of leveraging local strengths of a community to address their unique challenges.

Join us to learn about the growth of Community Schools throughout Idaho, the new Rural Expansion Initiative of the Coalition and the upcoming opportunities for your school district to engage.

Throughout this track there have been a number of valuable programs introduced and content that is relevant in your daily practice. This session will serve as the “big red bow” on the work you have done over the course of this conference. We will provide additional tools and resources that will allow you to walk back into your building tomorrow and implement change to support the needs of students in real-time. Our goal is to provide accessible resources and a true “toolkit” that you can access when students or staff are facing adversity.

So a big thing has happened, and our school and community is in crisis. Our response matters, and what happens after matters too. Together we will explore a high-level view of crisis recovery and renewal through the lens of suicide postvention, examining meaning-making strategies for ongoing ways to engage our school communities in the weeks, months, and years after the crisis.

This presentation will review the realistic application of grief theory and trauma informed practices as they apply to a best practice postvention response in the school setting. Practical suggestions in keeping with the Idaho School Response Guidelines for Suicide and Sudden Death will be reviewed and discussed. Strategies for providing control and structure throughout a postvention response will be provided.

Become proficient in practical intervention strategies through Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) training.

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Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) is a powerful addition to existing strategies to reduce the risk of suicide death in at-risk people while respecting their rights and autonomy. CALM is a practical intervention to increase the time and distance between individuals at risk of suicide and the most common and lethal methods of suicide, particularly firearms. The oldest and most widely-used training on lethal means safety, CALM teaches why means matter and equips individuals with tools to intervene effectively with those at risk for suicide both upstream–before a crisis hits–as well as in times of crisis. Versions are available for both clinicians and non-clinicians. 

Become proficient in practical intervention strategies through Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) training.

Counseling on Access to Lethal Means (CALM) is a powerful addition to existing strategies to reduce the risk of suicide death in at-risk people while respecting their rights and autonomy. CALM is a practical intervention to increase the time and distance between individuals at risk of suicide and the most common and lethal methods of suicide, particularly firearms. The oldest and most widely-used training on lethal means safety, CALM teaches why means matter and equips individuals with tools to intervene effectively with those at risk for suicide both upstream–before a crisis hits–as well as in times of crisis. Versions are available for both clinicians and non-clinicians. 

Learn about the Columbia-Suicide Severity Rating Scale (C-SSRS) and depending on your role, how to administer the screener or assessment tool.

Gain a better understanding of how to support students and their families within the parameters of the updated parental rights law. Learn how and when to partner with Child Protective Services to ensure student safety.

An exploration of available resources and informed area experts in order to share with parents and community members the vital connection and role all parties play in the prevention of youth suicide, and the fostering of healthy, happy, and strong young people through a communal engagement event.

According to the 2021 Idaho Healthy Youth Survey nearly 32% of Idaho 6th-12th graders reported that they had drank alcohol at least once in their lifetime, while nearly 18% reported that they had used a vape pen or e-cigarette, and 12% reported that they had used marijuana. The implementation of effective, evidence-based primary prevention programs can play a critical role in efforts to prevent youth substance use and misuse. In this session participants will learn about evidence-based programs (EBPs) – what are they, why are they important, how do you identify the best EBP for your school and student population, and how do you implement them effectively. This session will provide foundational knowledge on EBPs and lay the groundwork for attendees that are interested in attending the subsequent EBP-focused Substance Misuse Track session at 10:45am.

Participants will learn from grantees that have implemented in their school successful school-based and evidence-based practices.

Building off the two prior track sessions, former Idaho educators will lead a practical vision workshop with track attendees to help create relevancy to their conference experience by connecting it to their future goals related to Substance Misuse.

This session describes how to use an evidence-based framework, the social development strategy, for creating healthier environments for young people to grow, learn, live, and play. The session will focus on bringing the Social Development Strategy into your classroom. We will provide you with a set of simple yet powerful classroom practices that build student success skills. While the main focus will be on evidence-based practices to enhance learning and motivation for middle school students, these practices will be extended to elementary and high school.

In this session, participants will learn about Fentanyl dangers. Participants will be trained with how to use Narcan.

Participants will learn about the assessment centers that have been established in Idaho for substance misuse.

Nic Sick is a 45-minute documentary featuring teens and from across Idaho who talk about their struggles to overcome vape addiction. Nic Sick also features health care professionals, SRO’s and parents of teenagers as they talk about addiction, and health concerns among teenage use. It was Funded by the Idaho Millennium Fund and created by Idaho Public Television.

HOPE—Healthy Outcomes from Positive Experiences—and ACE—Adverse Childhood Experiences—are key concepts in understanding what we need to do in our homes and communities to create the best environments for children to thrive. When we say “HOPE Conquers ACEs” we mean that when children grow up with a preponderance of positive experiences in their lives and when we can reduce the adverse experiences, whole generations of children’s lives will be better. This workshop will explore how HOPE practice builds a safety net to prevent future substance misuse.