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Lockdown Drills Panel

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Event Dates
Eastern
Location
Online
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This event will feature researchers and practitioners sharing lessons learned from evaluating lockdown drills. The panel will answer questions and share best practices for conducting trauma-informed lockdown drills and discuss how they fit into a comprehensive school safety approach.

This webinar is a companion to and continuation of the previously released self-paced training on lockdown drills.

Learning Objectives:

  • Debate the merit of lockdown drills.
  • Discuss the need for a standardized set of guidelines for lockdown drills.
  • Explain methods for making drills trauma-informed.
  • Discuss how lockdown drills fit in with other school violence prevention strategies.

Date Created: August 19, 2022