K-12 Schools

A Review of Comprehensive School Site Safety Plans

Comprehensive School Site Safety Plans (CSSP) are designed to plan for and develop strategies aimed at addressing various aspects of school safety on K-12 campuses. D-Prep Safety will walk you through the development of a sound plan that meets and exceeds state mandated requirements. We will provide examples of how building your plan in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders will be essential to the success of the implementation and acceptance of the CSSP. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

A Trauma Informed Approach to Accommodations for Students with Disabilities

This workshop will cover some common challenges students with disabilities experience when seeking accommodations in K-12 schools, in college/university settings, and during the transition from K-12 to post-secondary education. A collaborative BIT/CARE team can be an effective aid in connecting students who need services and support to fully access and participate in the educational setting. We will share their personal and professional experiences serving students with a range of disabilities to help them better access the tools they need to be successful in the classroom. They will present opportunities to collaborate, support and create an inclusive educational experience with students with disabilities. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Addressing Criminal and Student Conduct Complaints

School resource officers (SROs), campus safety officers, and law enforcement often find themselves in the position of responding to both complaints and concerns that have criminal implications and those limited to school or college conduct and discipline policy violations (non-criminal). SROs and campus police should have a clear understanding and accompanying procedure of how to respond to both criminal and non-criminal matters as they impact the school climate. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.

Addressing Disruptive and Dangerous Behavior

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, and understanding the accommodation process. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Addressing Staff and Faculty Burnout

As they say on the airplane during the safety talk, put on your oxygen mask before helping others. We will review how unrelenting stress and fatigue transition into burnout and how this can be prevented through offering proper support, re-framing, and self-care. We will also review the role of compassion fatigue and how to support the everyday work of staff and faculty to keep them in the game for the long term. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Addressing Teasing and Bullying: A Guide for Parents

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. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Advanced Intake and Interviewing Skills

Gathering information from another party is an important skill set that crosses over a number of fields including threat assessment, Title IX, case management, conduct/discipline, and law enforcement/campus safety. This course is meant as an advanced track, moving the conversation beyond the interviewing and intake skills outlined in our BIT/CARE trainings. Our team teaches from decades of experience with an intersectional focus on counseling, law enforcement, campus safety, student conduct and legal techniques. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.

Advanced Violence Risk and Threat Assessment

This course is designed for those who have completed previous threat assessment courses and have a working knowledge of the modes of violence, types of threats and have a rubric or system they are able to use when assessing risk and threat. Our team will share advanced concepts related to social media threat assessments, involuntarily celibates (incel), the growing risk of white supremacist violence, report writing, and threat mitigation planning. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.

All Hazard Emergency Response

Large-scale emergency incidents and disasters can occur anywhere. When they do, being prepared ahead of time is one of the most important factors in a successful response. This workshop will provide the tools to enable administrators, students, faculty, and staff to manage a wide variety of emergency situations. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

BIT/CARE Meeting Flow and Processes

Using the DPrep Safety C.A.S.E. model, this training helps participants understand how a case moves through the process of the initial report, analysis, assignment of a risk level to intervention. We focus on reducing bias, development of an efficacious and efficient meeting flow, encouraging critical debate, and contextual analysis. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

BIT/CARE Team Certification

Team certification involves completing a series of trainings to move beyond competence to proficiency. The course itself is based on the practical application of team foundational skills, triaging at-risk behaviors, applying threat and risk assessment, and developing and managing a threat/risk mitigation plan through the application of effective interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.

BIT/CARE Team Needs Assessment

When starting with a new community partner, whether they are just forming their BIT/CARE or threat team or have been in existence for years, we like to start with a needs assessment of the team. This process allows team members and key community partners to talk with our consultants via zoom, complete a quantitative survey and receive unique feedback on how the system is working and where there are opportunities for growth. When performing an assessment, DPrep Safety looks at team functionality, processes and community needs from a variety of perspectives. This includes online surveys, one-to-one conversations, observing team meetings and reviewing advertising/marketing materials, reporting forms and policy and procedure documents. Our observations are brought together to create a report and suggestions for training and/or team improvements. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.

Developing Effective Interventions

This course is ideal for BIT/CARE team members, law enforcement, resident directors, academic and career counselors, case managers, and orientation leaders to review the key factors in developing effective interventions. The skills needed to carry out this work include conducting an intake meeting, creating timely documentation,  and developing a risk mitigation plan that considers the individual’s race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status, mental illness, physical disability, and religious and political beliefs. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.

Diversity, Equity and Inclusion for Law Enforcement

Bias impacts the way we see the world and make choices about how we interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and widens the aperture of awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation and interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.

Documenting a BIT/CARE Case

This training provides an overview of how to create quality documentation and ensure that your team members are contributing in an ongoing fashion to your database. From avoiding short or emotional notes to being timely and non-technical in your descriptions, this training provides an excellent introduction and/or refresher to the importance of quality documentation. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Effective Crisis Communication Strategy

The purpose of strategic crisis communication is to lay the groundwork necessary for organizations to respond effectively in a crisis or significant event. While communications delivered in daily situations are important, it is critical to understand the difference between daily communication practices and a crisis communication strategy. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.

FERPA, HIPAA, and State Confidentiality

There are many ways BIT/CARE teams receive and share information within the team structure and to other key community partners. This training provides an overview of these three categories of information sharing and the limitations within each of these areas. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Gender Expression: Understanding Pronouns in the Classroom and Workplace

This workshop is about learning the terminology that relates to gender identity and about other perspectives and world views related 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. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Having the Hard Conversations

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. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Helping Suicidal Community Members

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). For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

How Worried Should I Be?: Understanding Social Media, Email and Student Writing (K12)

Drawing from his book, An Educators Guide to Assessing Threats in Student Writing, Dr. Brian Van Brunt will teach participants what to look for when viewing written and video content that may occur on social media, over email or in creative writing assignments. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Impact vs Intent: Understanding Microaggressions and Bias

This workshop will provide an opportunity to better understand and define microaggressions, the unconscious manifestations of privilege that contain the potential to negatively impact marginalized groups, using examples related to gender, culture, race/ethnicity, mental health, generational differences, physical disability, and sexual orientation. We will provide a process for addressing microaggressions, along with a discussion of good/bad apologies, how to avoid the perfection problem, intent vs. impact, bias, and cultural humility. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

K-12 Threat Assessment: Standards and Best Practices for Behavioral Intervention Teams

This one- or two-day course delivers an interactive and in-depth look at the standards of practice for behavioral intervention team operating procedures and protocols based on survey data, research and literature in the fields of threat assessment, psychology and law enforcement. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Managing Mental Illness

This workshop will offer practical guidance on the topics of managing mental illness concerns related to suicide and trauma. We will address common challenges when working with students and community members who experience severe, pervasive, and persistent mental illness and understanding the range of referral and treatment from outpatient therapy to inpatient treatment. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Marketing and Advertising Your BIT/CARE Team

This discussion is based on the importance of educating your community about how to share concerns with your team. We will discuss creating brochures and handouts and look at examples of PSA awareness videos and BIT/CARE websites. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Mindset Active Assailant Program

DPrep Safety’s Mindset Active Assailant Program blends the leading research in psychology, law enforcement, military theory, and experience to emphasize early preparation before an attack, attending to your surroundings to improve reaction time, and wisely choosing the best course of action that leads to a better chance of survival. Mindset teaches threat preparedness, awareness, and the development of critical decision skills to improve the chances of survival. There are many approaches to violent assailants and active shooters. Some prioritize fighting and defending against active assailants, others focus on early readiness and live drills to form habits and ensure students and employees know what to do before the incident. The Mindset approach teaches proactive situational awareness connected to practical application. We build the habits and muscle memory to respond quickly in response to the level of threat and danger. Mindset educates and empowers communities and educational institutions by providing best-in-class research and practical techniques to keep students, staff, faculty, and employees safe. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.

Mitigating Bias in Information Gathering, Decision Making and Interventions

Bias impacts the way we see the world and make choices about how we interact with others. The goal of this workshop is to better understand and mitigate bias in our processes. This training provides an opportunity to explore how each of us sees the world and widens the aperture of awareness when working with others through assessment, crisis de-escalation and interventions. This workshop teaches the importance of improving the accuracy and validity of our processes as they apply to the three critical areas of gathering information, making decisions, and developing interventions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/safety.

Parenting in the Storm: Helping Our Kids Through the Pandemic

During the COVID-19 pandemic, many of us have experienced financial hardships, fear and worry about an uncertain future and struggles to keep up with the pace of school and work. This workshop will address the stress, challenges and difficulties faced by parents and students during the pandemic and offer some practical advice and solutions. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Student Reunification and How It Works

Our experienced instructors will provide you with tools and training to lead you through a reunification process to include how to engage with first responders, parents and the community. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Suicide and Underserved Populations

In this workshop, we will address the specific challenges faced by underserved populations related to mental health treatment and suicide prevention. Our speakers will address challenges faced by underserved populations such as Latino, Black, Asian, and non-traditional students, with special attention to the LGBTQI+ community. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Tackling Teasing and Bullying through Bystander Empowerment

Bullying and teasing behavior effects people of all ages. The impact of teasing and bullying leads to negative self-esteem, increased feelings of hopelessness and a problem in both work and academic performance. This workshop will explore signs and symptoms of bullying and offer an approach to address this behavior through bystander intervention and empowerment. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Talking to Kids About Scary Things: School Shootings, Suicide, and Trauma

This program will address how to talk to kids after large critical incidents like school shootings, suicide or other traumas occur. Drawing from best practices in trauma response and culturally informed interventions, the workshop will offer practical advice and guidance to parents. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Threat Assessment Certification

D-Prep Safety works with schools, workplaces, colleges, and universities who desire to put their team through a tailored experience of working through a number of cases to receive a certification in threat assessment for their team. Cases are developed within general topic (e.g., mental illness, low level threat, outsider threat, relationship violence) and are tailored for the specific team working the case. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/threat.

Threat Assessment, Interviewing, and Report Writing

Learning to complete a threat and violence risk assessment is like learning to play chess. The foundational concepts are fairly easy to teach and understand, but obtaining mastery comes with on-going study, guidance, and experience. This course is designed to provide BIT/CARE team members working in a K-12 school, college/university or workplace setting the skills they need to understand the terminology and process of violence risk and threat assessment, practical guidance regarding interviewing skills to obtain information from the person being assessed and direction on how to write a report in a way that provides useful and accessible guidance to the referral source. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com or visit https://www.dprepsafety.com/care.

Understanding Bias, Microaggressions, and Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

We will review concepts related to bias, microaggressions, and the trauma-informed perspective. We will demonstrate how to mitigate bias and help bring our unconscious preconceptions into the open, stressing the importance of moving forward while avoiding the pitfalls of perfectionism and political correctness. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.

Workplace Violence Prevention Plans

Required by California’s SB553 and recommended for all workplaces, these plans identify and mitigate potential risk factors for violence and include procedures for responding to violence and potential violence. DPrep Safety offers templates and can work with you to tailor them to your site’s needs. We also offer comprehensive site walkthroughs and can train your staff on how to prepare for and respond to potential violence. For more information or to schedule a training, contact bethany@dprep.com.