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PREPaRE Workshop 1, Third Edition - Comprehensive School Safety Planning

PREPaRE Workshop 1, Third Edition - Comprehensive School Safety Planning

Oct. 8, 2026

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8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

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Sourcewell

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Learn how to establish and sustain comprehensive school safety efforts that attend to both physical and psychological safety.

Date: Oct. 8, 2026

Time:

8:30 a.m.-4 p.m.

Location:

Sourcewell

Cost:

Free

Prerequisites: None

Learning objectives:

  • Develop, exercise, and evaluate safety and crisis teams.

  • Discuss media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials.

  • Be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel.

Description:

In this one-day workshop 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 comunity provider roles in providing school-based crisis preparedness and response activities. Additional topics addressed also include media/social media, communication, reunification, students with special needs, culture, and memorials. After this workshop, participants will be better prepared to improve their school’s climate, student resilience, and crisis response capabilities of school personnel. With updated research and strategies, this workshop makes a clear connection between ongoing crisis prevention, mitigation, protection, response, and recovery. 

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About the leader:

Virginia Davis with the Minnesota Department of Education and Connie Forster and Emily Kaehn with the Minnesota School Safety Center will lead this training.

Event Registration

Registration deadline: Sept. 24, 2026

Check-in: 8 a.m.

Questions: education@sourcewell-mn.gov

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