It’s been several days after the shooting at the local middle school, and details about the shooter have emerged.

Instructions Scenario

The police station receives a report that gunshots have been fired at a local middle school. The initial news is that there are fatalities, and panicked children have called their parents. Now, parents have shown up at the school along with the local media.

Your task as a first responder is to develop a crisis intervention plan. Your plan should include how to do the following:

• Determine the cause of the shooting.
• Deal with the media and the parents.
• Stop the violence before more students get injured or killed.

Research

Your main research source will be your textbook when creating the program for the survivors. You should also use the references listed in this section, or conduct your research using reliable, relevant sources. Whether you agree or disagree with the authors, you must support your argument with reliable material from the provided sources. Also, if you have life experience in this area, you may include this information in your paper.

SOURCES

• Center for Mental Health in Schools at UCLA. (2016). Responding to a crisis at a school [PDF file]. Retrieved from http://smhp.psych.ucla.edu/pdfdocs/crisis/crisis.pdf
• Department of Homeland Security. (n.d.). First responder. Retrieved from https://www.dhs.gov/cisa/first-responder
• Office for Victims of Crime. (n.d.). Helping victims of mass violence and terrorism: planning, response, recovery, and resources. Retrieved from https://www.ovc.gov/pubs/mvt-toolkit/
• Office for Victims of Crime. (n.d.). The vicarious trauma toolkit. Retrieved from https://vtt.ovc.ojp.gov/
• Soma, C. (2017). 10 steps every educator needs to know to create a trauma-informed school. Retrieved from https://starr.org/10-steps-every-educator-needs-to-know-to-create-a-trauma-informed-school/