School Crisis Recovery and Renewal

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WELCOME TO THE
SCHOOL CRISIS RECOVERY & RENEWAL (SCRR) PROJECT!
A Category II National Child Traumatic Stress Network Site

School crisis readiness is essential. Response is critical.
And: what happens after matters, too.

SCRR supports students, educators, school staff, and school-based clinicians to effectively implement trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal strategies. Nationally, the SCRR Team:

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Increases availability of evidence-based and trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal resources for schools

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Increases adoption of evidence-based and trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal protocols and practices by schools and districts

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Increases implementation of evidence- based and trauma-informed recovery and renewal interventions for students, families, and school staff who experienced a school crisis event

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Fosters system-level infrastructures and policies that support long-term sustainability of these protocols and practices for schools

School-Based Suicide Postvention from a Liberated Lens: A Community of Practice
October 2022 – May 2023

A collaborative and conversational space to build the field’s capacity to hold ourselves and each other after death by suicide in our school communities with equity and liberation at the forefront.

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Re-writing Our Narratives: Cultivating Awareness and Collective Care through Critical Literacy - A Critical Friends Group
September - October 2022

Join this six-part auto-ethnographic research experience, designed to guide educators through the process of exploring personal and collective barriers.

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Trauma Informed School Systems for School Crisis Recovery & Renewal: Drop-In Hours to Elevate our Practice
September – November 2022

How might we collaborate with curiosity to deepen our application of trauma informed thinking to recovery and renewal practices?

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Life After Loss Table: A space for to process, make meaning, and integrate experiences of student death and loss as educators
September – December 2022

How might we make sense of school-based loss and how that informs who we are as administrators, educators, clinicians, and youth advocates? How might the experience of student death years ago impact your current practice? How might we incorporate the losses we experienced as students ourselves, now that we are educators-perhaps even in the same community in which we grew up?

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A Moment of Pause: Time to Cultivate Trauma Informed Communication
October – November 2022

How might we increase our skills, knowledge, and communication abilities to help our people recover, process information, and navigate uncertainties?

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Honoring Grief in our Classrooms
October 2022 – March 2023

What pedagogies and practices might support us in creating a more humanizing classroom culture to support safety, connection and healthy grieving for students after a crisis?

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SCRR’s Fall 2022 Network of Practice
November 3, 2022

What have we been learning together throughout our SCRR work? As we engage in our third year of school crisis recovery & renewal learning, what does recovery and renewal mean to us?

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Trauma Informed School Systems for Crisis Recovery and Renewal
December 1, 2022

This two-hour workshop provides school staff an awareness of stress, trauma, and grief, their impacts on students, teachers and schools, as well as ways to effectively address them through the lens of recovery and renewal.

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Trauma-Informed COVID-19 Leadership Practice Guide for Recovery and Renewal

A practice guide to support your trauma-informed COVID-19 leadership to help your school communities towards recovery and renewal.

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What Helps & What Harms Students' Crises Recovery? Young Adult Reflective Listening Sessions

According to students, what helps and what harms recovery and renewal in the context of a school crisis? Find out more from our Youth Move National and SCRR listening sessions.

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10 Pillars of Recovery and Renewal

Want to learn more about our foundational concepts for school crisis recovery & renewal? This guide captures content presented in SCRR’s Foundational Modules offered in 2020, providing an introduction to the 10 pillars of recovery and renewal.

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THE SCRR LEVEL-SETTING FOUNDATIONAL MODULES

Our 4-part webinar and coaching clinic series promotes shared learning, and understanding of what renewal and recovery might look like in the context of school crisis.

ACCESS YEAR 1 FOUNDATIONAL MODULES AND RESOURCES

GET INVOLVED!

There are many ways you can join us in creating, codifying and cultivating school crisis recovery & renewal work across the country:

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Does your team, school, community, organization, or region have a specialized need for support related to crisis recovery and renewal? Are you looking for guidance around recovering from a specific school crisis or chronic crises in your community?

Submit a request for SCRR technical assistance (TA), coaching and consultation, or training. A member of our team will reach out to you to discuss your need in more detail.

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