Events

This educational webinar focuses on preparing K-12 schools to mitigate the spread of infectious diseases to help keep children and staff healthy. It discusses the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's forecast for the upcoming fall and winter respiratory season, strategies for partnering with health departments to prepare for the respiratory virus season, and guidance to help schools understand the daily actions that support infection prevention.

This webinar highlights best practices for K-12 educators on how to build a human trafficking and exploitation prevention program. It begins with a brief presentation on ways schools can implement anti-trafficking training, education, and resources for students and staff, including examples of prevention programs, and features a panel discussion with several anti-human trafficking advocates, lived experience experts, and school personnel.

This webinar explores the critical importance of maintaining and valuing teacher well-being and describes how effectively implementing initiatives to prioritize teacher well-being can positively impact school culture and student learning.

This webinar highlights the experiences and insights of youth leaders from drug-free community coalitions across the United States. Panelists share their journeys in prevention and describe key strategies to empower youth and jumpstart grassroots campaigns to address substance use in schools and districts.

This interactive workshop explores how bias, discriminatory behaviors, and identity-based bullying surfaces in schools from covert (perhaps even unintentional) behaviors, like microaggressions, to egregious ones, like hate crimes. This session describes the current context of bias and discrimination in schools, shares individual sentence stems and systemic interventions to address biased language and behavior, and provides time to practice and integrate learnings into plans for the next school year.

This webinar provides a framework for understanding both adverse and positive childhood experiences. It features a discussion of evidence-based strategies for preventing adverse childhood experiences and promoting positive childhood experiences, and highlights effective methods and tools to support efforts to promote the well-being of children and youth across communities.

This webinar explores how to create a Culturally Responsive Ecosystem through teaching, school leadership, and instructional supervision, and describes Culturally Responsive Instructional Supervision (CRIS), including implementation barriers and solutions to implement CRIS. This event is part of a webinar series focused on advancing high quality, sustainable school mental health from a multi-tiered system of support, trauma-informed, and culturally responsive and equitable lens.

In this virtual training event, NTAC researchers discuss important findings from our research on mass attacks perpetrated in public and semi-public spaces, including businesses, restaurants, bars, retail outlets, houses of worship, schools, open spaces, and more. This training will provide guidance on how communities may develop or improve existing violence prevention programs utilizing a behavioral threat assessment model.

This webinar highlights best practices and resources for K-12 educators on the importance of resilience in overcoming adverse experiences and trauma. It features a panel discussion with several anti-human trafficking advocates and lived experience experts discussing their work and advocacy as well as how school personnel can best help students become more resilient.

These webinar sessions, available in English and Spanish, provide information on how to best recognize and report potential cases of human trafficking. Presenters discuss what human trafficking is; common myths and misconceptions; indicators of potential trafficking situations; and resources to spread awareness.