The Kentucky Center for School Safety has partnered with the Kentucky Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Kentucky Suicide Prevention Group to provide QPR training that is being implemented as the state model for suicide prevention. QPR is an acronym for Question, Persuade, & Refer. This model teaches persons to recognize the risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs associated with depression, suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior. The goal is for QPR to be as commonly taught as CPR, which is supported by the goal of having one person in every family trained in QPR. The model can be modified for usage in the appropriate audience such as public schools, government, colleges and universities, civic groups, churches, etc.

The training will teach individuals how to:
• Quality suicide prevention training to diverse audiences
• The four fundamental components of suicidal communication
• The three simple steps to help prevent a death by suicide (Question, Persuade, Refer)
• The role of depression and mental illness
• How to replace fear with positive action
• How to talk about suicide
• How to locate available resources and support.

**This session is FREE of charge**

Drug abuse rates have been going down in all categories including tobacco and alcohol. That is the good news. The bad news is that Prescription and Over the Counter Medicine abuse rates are through the roof. What brought us to this point? What does the law say? Why are kids abusing these potentially deadly substances? And, what can we do about it?
We need to shift our thinking when it comes to how we talk about, use, monitor, and administer medicines to our children. They may see medicines as a “safe” alternative to illegal drug use. During this session, the trainer and participants will look at how we can protect our kids from the dangers of prescription and over the counter drug abuse. The trainer will discuss how we may have gotten where we are, and what we can do daily to take us closer to where we want to be

Cost: $30.00

The Kentucky Center for School Safety has partnered with the Kentucky Division of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services and the Kentucky Suicide Prevention Group to provide QPR training that is being implemented as the state model for suicide prevention. QPR is an acronym for Question, Persuade, & Refer. This model teaches persons to recognize the risk factors, protective factors, and warning signs associated with depression, suicidal ideation and suicidal behavior. The goal is for QPR to be as commonly taught as CPR, which is supported by the goal of having one person in every family trained in QPR. The model can be modified for usage in the appropriate audience such as public schools, government, colleges and universities, civic groups, churches, etc.

The training will teach individuals how to:
• Quality suicide prevention training to diverse audiences
• The four fundamental components of suicidal communication
• The three simple steps to help prevent a death by suicide (Question, Persuade, Refer)
• The role of depression and mental illness
• How to replace fear with positive action
• How to talk about suicide
• How to locate available resources and support.

**This session is FREE of charge**

These 2-day courses sponsored by the Kentucky Center for Schools Safety is funded by the Training and Exercise Integration Division (TEI) within DHS’ National Preparedness Directorate.

Instructors will teach participants how to apply all phases of the DHS and FEMA risk management process to jurisdictional critical infrastructure and key resources. Through lectures, discussions and classroom activities, students learn methods to identify and prioritize risks from all hazards, assess vulnerabilities, estimate consequences, and use equipment, training and exercises to mitigate risk.

This course prepares emergency response managers, school administrators, community leaders, private sector, nongovernment organizations, and tribal leaders to conduct a comprehensive, capabilities-based threat and risk assessment for terrorism/all-hazards incidents under the National Response Framework (NRF), National Preparedness Guidelines and Homeland Security Presidential Directives. Participant activities focus on the jurisdictional process for determining ability to respond to chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and explosive (CBRNE) and natural disaster events. Participants will identify shortfalls, perform gap analysis, and develop a needs assessment to fill shortfalls/gaps identified within the preparedness cycle. The course delivery combines lecture, small group discussions, participant activities, and multimedia scenarios to improve the multi disciplinary emergency teams’ capability to prevent, protect, respond to, or recover from all-hazards mass casualty events.

This course is free of charge
Class size limited to 30 participants
Please register by October 22, 2010 at ky.train.org

The trainer will discuss what educators and law enforcement officers need to know about gang activity inside schools nationwide. The impact of how this gang activity affects communities and schools will be discussed. Participants will learn effective ways to identify gangs and gang members. The trainer will outline officer safety techniques pertaining to gang members and interviewing techniques applying to gang members. The Regional Organized Crime Information Center will also give an overview of their association and the RISS gang web site and database.

The transportation of pupils to and from school is an integral part of a sound educational program. School bus drivers must know how to provide safe and effective transportation for students. In this session the trainer will explore how school bus drivers can respond to students who choose to misbehave on the bus. Participants will look at tried and true techniques and review new ideas. It is the goal of the session to help drivers learn a little more about themselves and how their style can impact the way they deal with students, parents and fellow employees. The trainer will include topics such as bullying/harassment in the work place and on the school bus.

2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
This 90-minute session will provide superintendents with concrete examples of four data tools that provide a comprehensive picture of factors driving academic achievement. These tools enable district leaders to review current challenges and trends.

Also presented in Bowling Green from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.

9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m.
This 90-minute session will provide superintendents with concrete examples of four data tools that provide a comprehensive picture of factors driving academic achievement. These tools enable district leaders to review current challenges and trends.

Also presented in Bowling Green from 2 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.