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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.
As of June 1, 2025, SCRR is no longer funded by the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration or a National Child Traumatic Stress Network Category II site.
Our website will remain up and open with archived content to resource anyone interested in crisis aftermath leadership, expanding the crisis continuum of care, and educator/leader grief work.
Browse our pages to find resources produced and curated by the SCRR: blogs, guides, asynchronous learning modules, and more.
Our 2025 SCRR Legacy Report is a wonderful capture of our time together, our impact, and our imparting wishes for the work ahead.
A final SCRR thank you video
Some of our team spent time creating a goodbye video for you (we recommend you turn on the closed captioning for full impact). Produced by Bri Young and Steven Jimenez featuring Leora, Oriana, Niki, Bri, Zeruiah + SCRR former field director Jen Leland & senior advisor David Schonfeld, we hope you feel our gratitude and meaning making permeate the screen from our homes to yours.
We’re still here to support you! Please contact: SCRR@cars-rp.org
SCRR is a project housed at the Center for Applied Research Solutions. For more information about our work, contact us at www.cars-rp.org
SCRR supports students, educators, school staff, and school-based clinicians to effectively implement trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal strategies. Nationally, the SCRR Team:
Increases availability of evidence-based and trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal resources for schools
Increases adoption of evidence-based and trauma-informed crisis recovery and renewal protocols and practices by schools and districts
Increases implementation of evidence- based and trauma-informed recovery and renewal interventions for students, families, and school staff who experienced a school crisis event
Fosters system-level infrastructures and policies that support long-term sustainability of these protocols and practices for schools
Quick Links
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SCRR Voices from the Field Blog
SCRR Voices from the Field Blog containing pieces written by SCRR Staff, Guest Faculty and other Network Members.
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SCRR Leadership Fellowship
Learn more about the SCRR Leadership Fellowship and our Fellows!
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SCRR Resource Hubs and Guides
Find SCRR Resource Hubs for 'Memorialization and Commemoration,' Mending Our Wounds,' and 'School Suicide Postvention' as well as SCRR develpoped guides and tools.
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SCRR Foundational Modules
Learn more about SCRR Level Setting: Foundational Modules.
guides and tools
Leaning In and Leading Out to Renew: Navigating Lived-Polycrisis School Leadership – A Guidebook from and for School Leaders (2025)
In 2024, Amy Castellanos, Cynthia Vega, and Matthew Reddam were SCRR Leadership Fellows. In conversation, they realized that they were leading through crises professionally that they were experiencing personally. This phenomenon was missing from school crisis leadership literature: until now. This is a guide to remind you that all the parts of you – the personal and professional – are one complete story.
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Honoring Grief – Invitations for Educators to Allow & Embrace Our Own Lived Grief Experiences, in the Classroom and Beyond (2024)
Based on insights gathered over two years from SCRR’s “Honoring Grief” series, the guide integrates tools, strategies, and collective wisdom on grief literacy, personal grief reflection, and building supportive structures within schools. Through “invitations” designed to encourage reflection and support, SCRR provides pathways to honor grief in ways that are liberating and feasible within educational settings.
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Leading with Courage, Care, & Connection: A Reflection Guide for School Leaders Navigating Recovery & Renewal After Student Deaths by Suicide (2024)
Through several SCRR workgroups and communities of practice, we explored the essential grappled with current gaps in school suicide postvention practice and policy. This guide is a “conversation capture” of dialogues and communities of practice and seeks to add clarity and context for future conversations in the field.
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10 Pillars of Recovery and Renewal (2021)
Want to learn more about our foundational concepts for school crisis recovery and 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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Trauma-Informed COVID-19 Leadership Practice Guide for Recovery and Renewal (2021)
A practice guide to support your trauma-informed COVID-19 leadership to help your school communities towards recovery and renewal.
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The SCRR Level-Setting Foundational Modules (2020)
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 MODULES AND RESOURCES
