Offering trauma response support services to manage pupils, parents and your team when serious, unpredictable incidents occur within your school environment.
Sometimes, situations where there are simply no rules present themselves.
Accidents, incidents, traumas, however we describe them, they have an ongoing impact on people at the time of the incident and for a long time afterwards.
What do you do when there is death or severe injury in your place of work? How do you manage if a colleague or a pupil attempts or succeeds in taking their own life? When a murder happens in the community?
Whatever it is that you do, however you react, we are here to support you, your teams, colleagues, families, children and witnesses through life-changing moments that cannot be imagined or predicted.
When critical incidents happen, to your pupils or team members, the school environment can be affected quickly – rumours and Chinese whispers spread, often uncontrollably.
Critical incidents cannot be predicted, neither can how we react to them. We are here to work with you to support the families, colleagues, and pupils that are witness to these life-changing events, the ones that cannot be imagined or predicted.
Working with you sensitively, collaboratively and always confidentially, we approach the situation as soon as we can, in agreement with you and your school, and do what needs to be done. Supporting and containing the overspill of people’s emotional responses at all ages, through trauma debriefs, work with individuals and groups. We will be there to provide emotionally and therapeutic trauma support for what has been witnessed and experienced and the feelings that surround what has happened.
Critical incidents are complex, with situations very quickly escalating to become less about the accident itself, and more about the people that have been affected.
Respectfully working with all those involved we offer flexible support, informed by your feedback as the situation unfolds, allowing us – and you – to effectively manage the changing situation, and adapt our approach to suit the needs of those involved.
