Building community capacity for risk/threat assessment and crisis response in Alberta schools
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Date
2004
Authors
Snatic, Kerry
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Education
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Publisher
Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 2004
Abstract
This project assessed participants' perceptions regarding the efficacy of a two-day
training workshop entitled Building Community Capacity for Risk/Threat Assessment
and Crisis Response. Three Ministries of the Government of Alberta ~ Alberta
Children's Services, Alberta Learning and Alberta Health and Wellness ~ worked
together in 2000 to develop the workshop, following an April 1999 incident in a Southern
Alberta high school when a 15 year-old boy fatally shot one student and injured another.
The workshop was designed to develop participant communities' capacity to recognize
and assess risks and threats and to respond appropriately to crises. Workshops were
offered to Alberta school jurisdictions and their community partners between September
2001 and June 2002. Participants included school administrators, trustees, counselors,
and teachers; Alberta Mental Health Board managers and therapists; staff from the
RCMP, Police, Child and Family Services and Public Health departments; physicians,
psychiatrists, and psychologists. At the end of the workshop, participants were asked to
complete an evaluation. The evaluation instrument included five statements for which
respondents indicated their level of agreement or disagreement using a 5-point Likert
scale, as well as six open-ended questions requiring written answers and comments.
Analysis of the evaluation responses indicated that participants felt the workshop
materials and activities were effective in empowering community members to develop
their own Risk/Threat Assessment and Crisis Response Protocols. They considered the
workshop content informative, particularly the examples developed to illustrate the key
concepts being taught.
Description
vii, 74 leaves ; 29 cm. --
Keywords
School violence -- Alberta -- Risk assessment , School violence -- Alberta -- Prevention , Community and school -- Alberta