Crisis Intervention is designed to meet the individual needs of students who are in crisis with appropriate intervention services and students who are not in crisis with as normal a school day as possible. The overall goal is to maintain as normal a school day as possible. The project is designed to minimize the glorification, sensationalizing, and over memorializing of crisis events. All intervention personnel have a minimum of 10 hours of crisis specific intervention training. The Southeast Kansas Regional Crisis Response Team: Responded to more than 500 situations involving the death of students, staff, and parents, and they did so thoughtfully and deliberately. Can provide a school district with appropriate information and technical assistance to enable them to provide this necessary and timely service for area school districts. As a member of the program, schools are provided with: Literature review on suicide and crisis intervention Model intervention policies Sample school policies Team training model Resource guide Recommended follow-up training School Safety Model - Approved by National School Safety Center Two-day baseline training for Regional Crisis Response Team Members The three basic rationales: Meet the needs of all students Work to primarily prevent crisis from happening Respond thoughtfully and deliberately Jim Rodman, Counselor LCPC, Crisis Coordinator Amanda Murphy, Crisis Manager Southeast Kansas Education Service Center - Greenbush 947 W. 47 Highway P.O. Box 189 Girard, KS 66743 Phone: (620) 724-6281 Fax: (620) 724-6284 ©2003 Southeast Kansas Education Service Center All Rights Reserved