PREPaRE Workshop 2 2026

Note: This is a two day event on May 18 & 19 from 8 a.m. - 4 p.m.
You MUST attend both days of the workshop to achieve credit.

Free to attend

Earn Act 48 Credit Hours with this event!

Where: AIU Central Office, TransformEd Room

Presenters:

• Nick Fratto M.S.ED, Special Education Supervisor/Special Projects Coordinator
• Shannon Fagan, MS, Program Coordinator

Overview: In this 2-day workshop, participants will develop the knowledge and skill required to provide immediate mental health crisis interventions to the students, staff, and school community members who have been simultaneously exposed to an acute traumatic stressor. The knowledge and skills developed within this session also help to build a bridge to the psychotherapeutic and trauma-informed mental health response sometimes required to address challenges associated with trauma exposure.
The PREPaRE Workshops are designed to be completed by school teams. PREPaRE Workshops provide a framework for schools or LEAS that require administrative support and a team approach to contextualize to their setting and implement.

Target Audience: School-based mental health providers, school psychologists, school counselors, and school social workers.

WS2 Learner Objectives: This workshop will help participants acquire increased knowledge, skills, and confidence to:

1. Report reduced anxiety and fear associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions.
2. Report increased knowledge and confidence associated with the provision of school mental health crisis interventions.
3. Identify variables that help to estimate the number of individuals traumatized by a crisis.
4. Recognize the difference between common crisis reactions and mental illness.
5. Identify the elements of school crisis preparedness specified by the PREPaRE acronym.
6. Recognize risk factors that predict psychological trauma.
7. Identify the warning signs that indicate psychological trauma.
8. Place PREPaRE mental health crisis interventions on a multitiered continuum ranging from least to most restrictive.
9. Match the degree of psychological trauma risk to the appropriate school crisis interventions.

Contact Hours: 13 hours of in-person training + completion of pretest, posttest, and evaluation. Provides 13 hours of NASP[1]approved CPD.

Act 48 Hours: 6.5 hours per day (total of 13 hours).

Please reach out to Sunshine Zuk at [email protected] if you have any questions regarding the event. We hope to see you there!

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