Crisis Response Resources

Crisis Response Team

The mission of the CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team is to provide consultation and support pertaining to comprehensive school-based prevention, intervention, and postvention crisis resources and services. The CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team provides professional development training opportunities at the CSSP Annual Conference and partners with districts and agencies to support multi-level crisis response programming. The CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team encourages interagency collaboration and services in preparing for and responding to crises that impact the school and community.

The team currently serves as a partner with the Colorado Office of School Safety Crisis Response Unit. Review the CSSP Crisis Team Brochure.pdf for more information.

 Dr. Lois Christiansen, Co-Chair of the CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team  Dr. Christiansen works for Northeast BOCES part-time as well as a small private practice (evaluations only).  She has been a part of CSSP S-W CT since 2002.  

 Dr. Jane Lineman, NCSP, Co-Chair of the CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team  Dr. Lineman has supported student safety and crisis recovery services for more than 15 years. She regularly partners with school leaders and community partners to support the crisis recovery needs of students and school communities. She is a NASP PREPaRE Workshop 1 and 2 trainer. 

Please use the General Membership List to connect with a member of the team to support consultation and questions. General Membership List 

Graduate Education & Staff Consultation Support 

Members of the CSSP State-Wide Crisis Response Team are accessible for consultation with graduate students and fellow school psychologists across Colorado. Members of the team welcome the opportunity to participate in interviews hosted by graduate students as part of a class assignment, host a Q&A session with graduate students on the topic of crisis response and recovery, and assist with general consultation questions from fellow practitioners working in school settings. Please visit the membership list for member contact information. 

NASP PREPaRE Workshop 1 and 2 Training

The PREPaRE curriculum was developed by the National Association of School Psychologists (NASP) as part of NASP’s decade-long leadership in providing evidence-based resources and consultation related to school crisis prevention and response. PREPaRE training is ideal for schools committed to improving and strengthening their school safety and crisis management plans and emergency response. PREPaRE provides school-based mental health professionals and other educational professionals training on how to best fill the roles and responsibilities generated by their participation on school safety and crisis teams. See the PREPaRE brochure for more information. 

PREPaRE trainings can be scheduled by any sponsoring organization, school, district, etc. Sponsoring simply means that you are hosting and organizing the training.

Interested in hosting a PREPaRE Workshop 1 or PREPaRE Workshop 2 training in your district? Find a local trainer on the NASP PREPaRE Trainer Website or contact Franci Crespeau-Hobson to request a PREPaRE Train-the-Trainer (ToT) in your district.

Helpful Crisis-Related Resources

The following resources are provided as tools to inform crisis response and recovery practices in schools. 

Organizing A School Crisis Response

NASP School Safety and Crisis 

Standard Response Protocol: I love you guys

After a Suicide: A Toolkit for Schools Second Edition

Best Practice Considerations  for Schools in Active Shooter and Other Armed Assailant Drills Preventing-Suicide-A-Toolkit-for-High-Schools.pdf

988 Colorado Mental Health Line

Response: Emergency Actions for K-12 Schools

PREPaRE Training Curriculum

Free Trainings from the Colorado Office of School Safety Crisis Response Unit