Conference Agenda
 Monday, June 1st, 2009 |
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| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Registration and Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. – 9:30 a.m. |
Welcome and Introduction Location: Aspen |
| 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. |
Plenary - From Put Downs to Lockdowns: Preventing Violence In and Out of Schools This presentation reviews the latest trends on school violence and school violence prevention by providing participants with a firm understanding of past, current and future directions related to school violence. Participants will learn about the youth violence continuum and how to incorporate best practices related to the continuum into their school environments, including overviews of the characteristics of effective school violence prevention initiatives. Presenter: William Lassiter, MPA, Director of Communications, North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Location: Aspen |
| 10:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. | Break and Networking |
| 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Session I Responding to Gangs through a Comprehensive Approach Learn about a comprehensive approach to managing gangs. Police, school, public and private service agencies, faith-based organizations and the community at large all play a central role in managing gangs and gang violence. Participants will learn about core elements of gangs and effective prevention, intervention and suppression strategies. Presenter: Regina Huerter, Denver's Crime Prevention and Control Commission Location: Mount Evans - First Floor Evidence-based Programs to Reduce Bullying and the Latest on Cyberbullying This session will provide an overview of bullying and the recent research on cyber bullying including the definitions and prevalence of bullying and cyber bullying. The presenter will cover what can be done to effectively reduce bullying in schools as well as one of the latest strategies and curricula to address cyber bullying. Presenter: Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Ph.D., Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Location: Cottonwood - Training Center Suspicious Persons The purpose of this session is to inform educators, administrators and school safety personnel about the need to be vigilant with regard to suspicious persons on their campus and in the surrounding area. This presentation will focus on recent incidents that impacted school safety that initially involved a suspicious person, counter-surveillance measures, and a round-table discussion about how to best address suspicious persons in an educational environment. Presenter: Greg Blevens, Thornton Police Department Location: Blue Spruce - Training Center Violence Prevention Programs: What Works and What Does it Mean to be Evidence-Based This workshop will provide information on what it means to be evidence-based, including a brief discussion of the strengths and weaknesses of different evaluation methods. Blueprints for Violence Prevention, a project of the University of Colorado, Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence, maintains the most rigorous list of evidence-based programs in the country. The Blueprints evidence-based standard and a description of several Blueprints school-based, violence prevention programs will be detailed. Four of these programs are part of the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative — LifeSkills, Good Behavior Game, Incredible Years, and CASASTART. Presenter: Sharon Mihalic, M.A., Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Location: Flat Irons - First Floor The New Age of Information Sharing This workshop will address the need, benefits and challenges to sharing client information among agencies. Also presented will be a computer based management information system, accessible by defined users, which houses individualized and aggregate data regarding youth involved in legal, educational and social service system. Presenter: Don Quick, Adams County District Attorney, 17th Judicial District Location: Gray's and Torrey's - Second Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100 This course will provide an overview of the Introduction to ICS for Schools course (IS-100.SCa for Schools) as developed by the Emergency Management Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, and as required by Colorado Senate Bill 08-181. The course is designed primarily for kindergarten through high school personnel. The overall goal of the course is to promote school safety by familiarizing participants with how ICS principles can be applied in school-based incidents and preparing you to interface with community response personnel. Presenters: Kent Davies, Broomfield Office of Emergency Management; Larry Coapland, City of Thornton Fire Department; Heather McDermott, Adams County Office of Emergency Management; Mike Reddy, City of Westminster Emergency Management Location: Snowmass - Second Floor and Silverton - First Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100SC Certification ICS 100SC Certification provides attendees of the ICS 100SC class the opportunity to become certified by taking an online exam and getting immediate results. The test should take around 45 minutes and meets the requirements of Colorado SB181. Every conference attendee should take advantage of the training session and test time. SB181 requires all crisis management team members in a school to take and pass the ICS 100SC class and test. Proctor: Becky Martinez, Brighton Office of Emergency Management Location: Tin Cup and Alpine Computer Labs - First Floor |
| 12:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. |
Lunch School Messenger: A Rapid Notification Solution With each tragic act of violence on today's campuses, news reports often highlight the success – or failure – of the school's ability to communicate quickly and effectively. Additionally, the number of available notification solutions appear to increase with each tragic event. Cast against a background of industry trends over the past 10 years, this session will focus on sharing best practices in selecting and implementing a rapid notification solution, from integrating it with your existing data and telecom systems, to training and managing usage policy as well as determining the long term costs. Presenter: Nate Brogan, PMP, Vice President Corporate Services Location: Aspen - Training Center |
| 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m. | Break |
| 2:00 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. |
Concurrent Session II Gangs and Intervention Strategies The issue of gangs has become increasingly problematic in the Denver metropolitan area. Gangs have infiltrated the lives of youth through various means and schools are tasked with trying to identify strategies to combat problems inside their buildings. During the course of this session attendees will: (1) receive basic information on what to look for when dealing with gangs; (2) learn how youth are recruited into gangs and how gang involvement negatively impacts their future; and (3) learn about strategies being implemented by the Adams County Youth Initiative to address gang involved youth in Adams County. Presenters: Ernie Lucero, Thornton Police Department and Carl Adams, Adams County Sheriff Department Location: Mount Evans - First Floor Recovering: What to Do When the Crisis is Over After a crisis, how do schools return to the mission of educating kids? This will be the key question answered during this breakout session. Participants will be exposed to four key components of Recovery: physical/structural recovery; business recovery; restoration of academic learning; and psychological/emotional recovery. This stage of crisis response does not come without debate on what is best for students, staff and parents, so the session will also allow for participants to discuss the different approaches that should be undertaken during the recovery phase. Presenter: William Lassiter, MPA, Director of Communications, North Carolina Department of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Location: Cottonwood - Training Center The Bullying Hurts Workshop This workshop will address the importance of positive youth development and mentoring in combating the behavior of bullying in schools and communities. This includes the role that partnership between law enforcement officials, the school community, and students play in creating a safe community. Speakers will lend their experience and expertise on the subject of bullying and bullying prevention and give an overview of the Bullying Hurts Program. The Bullying Hurts Program addresses community service and peer mentoring to prevent and reduce bullying. Presenters: Gerry Mass, Ph.D., Darlene Nash, and Marvin Nash, Bullying Hurts Program Location: Blue Spruce - Training Center I-Safe Cyber Bullying – Internet Safety Cyber bullying includes a wide range of unacceptable bullying behaviors and is used to intentionally cause distress and harm. Cyber bullying can last longer than typical schoolyard bullying and follows a child anywhere they use their cell phones or log onto the internet. This session is designed to provide critical information to school leaders and staff who may not be familiar with the ways in which interactive technologies are currently being used to bully young people. Presenters: Rory Coonts and Jesus Mendez, Thornton Police Department Location: Flat Irons - First Floor Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction to Using Communication Skills to Enhance Motivation for Behavior Change When it comes to school safety there are times that administrators need to use their interviewing skills on youth. This introductory presentation on motivational interviewing is designed to raise awareness and address the discrepancy between your current method of communication or interviewing practice, its impact on the student/s, and the impact of current practice on the overarching goal of behavior change. The presentation aims to: (1) increase participants‘ interests in furthering their communication skills; (2) provide participants an overview of the Stages of Change, Three Communication Styles, and what facilitates or hinders motivation; (3) provide a brief introduction to motivational interviewing skills. Presenter: Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Ph. D., Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Location: Gray's and Torrey's - Second Floor A Visual Response to School Crisis: Advancing School Safety DVD The Advancing School Safety DVD was produced as a collaborative effort between the Broomfield Police Department and Adams 12 Five Star Schools. The DVD is designed to teach Lockdown, Lockout, and Evacuation practices used by Adams 12 Five Star Schools and the Broomfield Police Department. The Advancing School Safety DVD targets building administrators, teachers, students, and parents. Attendees will learn how the DVD could be utilized as a training tool in their school. Presenters: Kent Davies, Broomfield Office of Emergency Management and Joleen Reefe, Public Education Coordinator, Broomfield Police Department Location: Juniper - Training Center Incident Command System (ICS) 100 This course will provide an overview of the Introduction to ICS for Schools course (IS-100.SCa for Schools) as developed by the Emergency Management Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, and as required by Colorado Senate Bill 08-181. The course is designed primarily for kindergarten through high school personnel. The overall goal of the course is to promote school safety by familiarizing participants with how ICS principles can be applied in school-based incidents and preparing you to interface with community response personnel. Presenters: Larry Coapland, City of Thornton Fire Department; Heather McDermott, Adams County Office of Emergency Management; Mike Reddy, City of Westminster Emergency Management Location: Snowmass - Second Floor and Silverton - First Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100SC Certification ICS 100SC Certification provides attendees of the ICS 100SC class the opportunity to become certified by taking an online exam and getting immediate results. The test should take around 45 minutes and meets the requirements of Colorado SB181. Every conference attendee should take advantage of the training session and test time. SB181 requires all crisis management team members in a school to take and pass the ICS 100SC class and test. Proctor: Becky Martinez, Brighton Office of Emergency Management Location: Tin Cup and Alpine Computer Labs - First Floor |
| 3:30 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. | Break |
| 3:45 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Plenary - Legal Issues Related to School Safety This presentation reviews legal issues related to school safety, including recent court cases as well as previously decided cases involving the public schools' authority over students. Constitutional concerns and limitations related thereto will be reviewed. Presenter: Philip J. Baca, Police Chief, Commerce City Police Department Location: Aspen - Training Center |
| Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 |
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| 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 a.m. | Breakfast |
| 9:00 a.m. – 10:15 a.m. |
Plenary - Rationale and Research Basis for Threat Assessment During this presentation by national threat assessment expert, Dr. Dewey Cornell, participants will learn common misconceptions about school violence and the scientific basis for school-based violence prevention. Attendees will also gain an understanding of the rationale for threat assessment, how it differs from profiling, and the research evidence in support of the Virginia model. Presenter: Dewey Cornell, Ph.D., Director, Virginia Youth Violence Project, University of Virginia Location: Aspen - Training Center |
| 10:15 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. | Break |
| 10:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. |
Concurrent Session III Responding to Gangs through a Comprehensive Approach Learn about a comprehensive approach to managing gangs. Police, school, public and private service agencies, faith-based organizations and the community at large all play a central role in managing gangs and gang violence. Participants will learn about core elements of gangs and effective prevention, intervention and suppression strategies. Presenter: Regina Huerter, Denver's Crime Prevention and Control Commission Location: Mount Evans - First Floor Evidence-based Programs to Reduce Bullying and the Latest on Cyberbullying This session will provide an overview of bullying and the recent research on cyber bullying including the definitions and prevalence of bullying and cyber bullying. The presenter will cover what can be done to effectively reduce bullying in schools as well as one of the latest strategies and curricula to address cyber bullying. Presenter: Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Ph. D., Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Location: Cottonwood - Training Center Initial Screening and Resolution of Transient Threats This breakout session will describe the initial screening/triage procedure in responding to a student threat, with an emphasis on less serious cases. Approximately 70% of cases are transient threats that can be resolved in 3 steps. Presenter: Dewey Cornell, Ph.D., Virginia Youth Violence Project Location: Blue Spruce - Training Center A Visual Response to School Crisis; Advancing School Safety DVD Advancing School Safety was produced as a collaborative effort between the Broomfield Police Department and Adams 12 Five Star Schools. The DVD is designed to teach Lockdown, Lockout, and Evacuation practices used by Adams 12 Five Star Schools and the Broomfield Police Department. The target audiences for this training are building administrators, teachers, students, and parents. Attendees will learn how the DVD could be utilized as a training tool in their school. Presenters: Kent Davies, Broomfield Office of Emergency Management and Joleen Reefe, Public Education Coordinator, Broomfield Police Department Location: Juniper - Training Center School Crisis Recovery Basics Administrators and other school personnel are invited to attend this workshop to learn about evidence-based school crisis recovery strategies. Crisis timelines from actual situations will be presented to illustrate recovery strategies as well as crisis checklists shared with participants. Participants will understand some of the evidence based practices in crisis recovery. Presenters: Nita Laramie-Eaton, Tiffany Leija-Wheeler, and Georganne Zeiger, Adams 12 Five Star Schools Location: Gray's and Torrey's - Second Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100 This course will provide an overview of the Introduction to ICS for Schools course (IS-100.SCa for Schools) as developed by the Emergency Management Institute in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Education, and as required by Colorado Senate Bill 08-181. The course is designed primarily for kindergarten through high school personnel. The overall goal of the course is to promote school safety by familiarizing participants with how ICS principles can be applied in school-based incidents and preparing you to interface with community response personnel. Presenters: Larry Coapland, City of Thornton Fire Department; Heather McDermott, Adams County Office of Emergency Management; Mike Reddy, City of Westminster Emergency Management Location: Snowmass - Second Floor and Silverton - First Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100SC Certification ICS 100SC Certification provides attendees of the ICS 100SC class the opportunity to become certified by taking an online exam and getting immediate results. The test should take around 45 minutes and meets the requirements of Colorado SB181. Every conference attendee should take advantage of the training session and test time. SB181 requires all crisis management team members in a school to take and pass the ICS 100SC class and test. Proctor: Becky Martinez, Brighton Office of Emergency Management Location: Tin Cup and Alpine Computer Labs - First Floor |
| 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. |
Lunch Plenary - Our Greatest Resource: Mentoring Matters The mentoring relationship is a key factor in youths' successful transition to adulthood. The accelerating pace of daily life along with the changing nature of communities and families makes mentoring even more important to the growth and development of youth. Effective mentoring does not happen by accident and the need is too critical for trial and error approaches. This keynote presentation examines the responsibilities and best practices of effective mentoring relationships and programs. Presenter: Terrence Freeman, Ph. D., Professor of Mechanical Engineering at St. Louis Community College, Missouri Location: Aspen - Training Center |
| 1:30 p.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Break |
| 1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. |
Concurrent Session IV School Table Top Exercise This tabletop exercise will provide a review of the Introduction to ICS for Schools course (IS-100.Sca for Schools) and give it applicability as it relates to specific school-based scenarios. The overall goal of this exercise it to familiarize school administrators with how ICS principles can be applied in school-based incidents and prepare administrators to interface with community response personnel. Presenters: Randy Councell, Cherry Creek School District and Rick Newman, Adams County Office of Emergency Management Location: Aspen - Training Center Response to Substantive Threats This breakout session will focus on the most serious cases and describe the comprehensive safety evaluation that includes both a law enforcement investigation and a mental health assessment of students who have made substantive threats. Dr. Cornell will describe 3 main pathways to violence with case examples. Presenter: Dewey Cornell, Ph.D., Virginia Youth Violence Project Location: Blue Spruce - Training Center I-Safe Cyber Bullying – Internet Safety Cyber bullying includes a wide range of unacceptable bullying behaviors and is used to intentionally cause distress and harm. Cyber bullying can last longer than typical schoolyard bullying and follows a child anywhere they use their cell phones or log onto the internet. This session is designed to provide critical information to school leaders and staff who may not be familiar with the ways in which interactive technologies are currently being used to bully young people. Presenters: Rory Coonts and Jesus Mendez, Thornton Police Department Location: Cottonwood - Training Center Motivational Interviewing: An Introduction to Using Communication Skills to Enhance Motivation for Behavior Change When it comes to school safety there are times that administrators need to use their interview skills on youth. This introductory presentation on motivational interviewing is designed to raise awareness and address the discrepancy between your current method of communication or interviewing practice, its impact on the student/s, and the impact of current practice on the overarching goal of behavior change. The presentation aims to: (1) increase participants‘ interests in furthering their communication skills; (2) provide participants an overview of the Stages of Change, Three Communication Styles, and what facilitates or hinders motivation; (3) provide a brief introduction to motivational interviewing skills. Presenter: Sabrina Arredondo Mattson, Ph. D., Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Location: Gray's and Torrey's - Second Floor Site Assessments The best way to protect your school from a crisis is to prevent the crisis from occurring or properly prepare for a critical incident. Conducting school site assessments allows for the opportunity to prevent, mitigate, or manage crises. The assessments also aid in allowing emergency responders to effectively assist during a critical incident. Presenter: Matt Kandt, Thornton Police Department Location: Juniper - Training Center Safer Students, Safer Schools, Safe2Tell How can our young people be given effective tools for safely breaking the "Code of Silence" that is most often due to fear of retaliation, intimidation, isolation and exclusion? Safe2Tell is raising awareness of the difference a student's voice can make while empowering them to do what is right in a way that keeps them safe. Susan Payne will discuss the vital role of prevention, intervention, education and awareness pertaining to safe school cultures and how to move forward with a solution that is strength-based, positive and pro-active involving the various stakeholders in the safety of Colorado children. Presenter: Susan Payne, Safe 2Tell, Colorado Springs Location: Snowmass - Second Floor Incident Command System (ICS) 100SC Certification ICS 100SC Certification provides attendees of the ICS 100SC class the opportunity to become certified by taking an online exam and getting immediate results. The test should take around 45 minutes and meets the requirements of Colorado SB181. Every conference attendee should take advantage of the training session and test time. SB181 requires all crisis management team members in a school to take and pass the ICS 100SC class and test. Proctor: Becky Martinez, Brighton Office of Emergency Management Location: Tin Cup and Alpine Computer Labs - First Floor |
| 3:15 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. |
Where Do We Go From Here? Next Steps for School Safety and Violence Prevention in Adams County The Adams County Youth Initiative (ACYI) is a countywide collaborative committed to increasing high school graduation rates and decreasing delinquency and substance use in youth populations through evidenced-based strategies. ACYI has focused on the following five areas in regard to school safety and violence prevention: (1) Comprehensive Crisis Planning; (2) Threat Assessment; (3) Bullying Prevention; (4) Gang Prevention; and (5) Juvenile Information Sharing. This presentation will describe the goals and activities in each of these areas, how a partnership approach to school safety and violence prevention is helping to implement activities and accomplish the goals, and next steps for school safety and violence prevention in Adams County. Presenters: Sheriff Doug Darr, Adams County Sheriff's Department; Krista Flannigan, J.D., 17th Judicial District Attorney; Beverly Kingston, Ph.D., Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative; Deputy Chief Randy Nelson, Thornton Police Department Location: Aspen - Training Center |