Preventing, Intervening, and Recovery from School Shootings

Provides guidance for developing a comprehensive prevention plan and crisis response to a school or community shooting or other traumatic event. Based on research and best practices, this essential blueprint includes prevention activities, a plan for intervention during a crisis, and guidance for helping individuals and communities recover.

This manual provides practical guidance for developing a comprehensive prevention plan and crisis response to a school or community shooting or other traumatic event. Based on research and emerging best practices utilized at dozens of shooting sites across the country, this essential blueprint includes prevention activities, a plan for intervention during a crisis, and guidance for helping individuals and communities recover after a tragic incident.

Preventing, Intervening and Responding to School Shootings and Other Tragic Events provides a thorough hands-on approach to critically timed needs, with specific information on how to respond in the minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and even years after a school tragedy. These are not broad guidelines but well-defined protocols based on what has worked and what may work for your school.

This model also includes an outline for local crisis response plans and specific forms for every aspect of your crisis response. The forms provide planning guides, immediate response reminders, parent information, and guidance setting long-term goals.

While this manual has many examples of how to respond effectively before, during, and after a school shooting, these intervention techniques are also effective in different types of crises.

Includes the manual and a USB flash drive containing reproducible materials.