Join Education Upended April 28th and May 17th, 2022 for a 2-part conversation about a SAMHSA funded project which explores the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal process through a trauma-informed lens.
April 28th join guests Leora Wolf-Prusan and Yesmina Luchsinger from the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) team. We will discuss the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal concept and framework through a lens of systems change, policy, and school mental health crisis leadership.
May 17th join guests Oriana Ides and Brianna Young from the School Crisis Recovery and Renewal (SCRR) team. We will discuss School Crisis Recovery and Renewal from and educator perspective with a focus on supporting educators through crisis, providing opportunities for meaning-making, and creating healing-centered spaces for all.
The team brings expertise in trauma-informed services and systems change, grief and bereavement, school mental health crisis leadership, healing-centered systems work, and much more.
What is School Crisis Recovery and Renewal?
Every day, leaders working in and with school systems and communities navigate unpredictable events. These events are called “crises” when they exceed a threshold of harm. Crises are moments, events, or experiences that call our assumptions into question. When they occur, crises surface the unexplored and the undiscussed: everything comes out during a crisis.
The 4 Rs of School Mental Health Crises
The framework we use to launch this project is adapted from the National Child Traumatic Stress Network’s (NCTSN) The 3R’s of School Crises and Disasters: Readiness, Response, and Recovery. We add a fourth “R”: renewal. “Renewal” is the term we use to identify the component of school mental health crisis that is often the most instrumental and least developed: this phase includes healing, meaning-making, and new navigation of school identity after an overwhelming event.
Crisis leaders need to understand the physical and psychological disruptions that are a common consequence of trauma. Trauma interrupts our ability to maintain a coherent narrative that explains our world and our place within it. We as humans need a worldview of ourselves and each other that makes sense to us. This sense-making narrative helps us interpret the past, negotiate the present, and move comfortably into the future. One of the functions of a crisis is that it interrupts our regular story: trauma can pause our bodies and brains at the moment of harm. We need crisis leaders to help us create meaning from our trauma experiences, which then helps our bodies and brains integrate the crisis into our larger story. Storytelling and reflection are essential to our collective crisis healing.
Don't miss this riveting conversation!
Register for Part 1 Thursday, April 28th 9-10:30 PST HERE
Register for Part 2 Tuesday, May 17th 9-10:30 PST HERE
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