Charlotte County Public Schools provide various trainings on student safety and support in order to enhance the capabilities of its staff. Available trainings include but are not limited to:
Identifying and Reporting Child Abuse and Neglect:
- A web based course required for all staff. This course satisfies the training requirement specified in Florida Statute section 1012.98 (13).
- Participants will acquire specific, current knowledge in the area of child abuse and neglect.
Nonviolent Crisis Intervention Training- Crisis Prevention Institute (CPI):
- Designed to teach best practices for managing difficult situations and disruptive behaviors.
- Staff learn how to identify at-risk individuals and use nonverbal techniques to defuse hostile or belligerent behavior.
Risk Assessment training:
- Provided to all school based mental health staff (school social workers, counselors and psychologists).
- District protocol for completing risk assessments and necessary follow up.
Threat Assessment Team training:
- Every CCPS school has a School Based Threat Management (SBTMT) team that is required to meet monthly during the school year.
- The SBTMT includes staff members with experience in Administration, Mental Heatth, Instruction, and Law Enforcement, each with different roles for supporting the assessment and intervention process.
- The SBTMT uses Florida’s Harm Prevention and Threat Management Model to evaluate the risk of violence posed by a student and to intervene and resolve the issues that underlie the concerning behavior. Team members are trained annually at the beginning of the school year.
Youth Mental Health First Aid:
- A course on how to help an adolescent who is experiencing a mental health or addiction challenge or is in crisis.
- The course introduces common mental health challenges for youth, reviews typical adolescent development, and teaches a 5-step action plan for how to help young people.
- Staff have various opportunities throughout the school year to complete this training.
- This course satisfies the training requirement specified in FS 1012.584
For more information contact Families First at (941) 255-7480.