R10 Safety 1st Conference 2025

Managing the volume of students needing support requires a team effort. With staff—which should include all school personnel, like bus drivers, food services, and maintenance in addition to teachers, SROs and administrators—trained to recognize these concerns and share them with guidance, students can be paired with the appropriate services and supports more quickly. In this session, we explore how we can apply proven strategies to collect and connect the dots for better outcomes. We will review the impact of the student mental health crisis and the information silos that block our view. And we will uncover the upstream opportunities for school staff, SROs and administrators to intervene well before acts of violence to self and others occur on our campuses.  Just as much as the whole school community needs to support and enact safety initiatives to keep staff and students physically safe, they must also work together to support our student’s social and emotional safety. The content of this presentation includes how one district utilized documenting low-level concerns of current and previous students to improve safety across all campuses.