Supporting, Students, Staff, and Ourselves in the Aftermath of Crisis and Loss

Program Number: 24CE00134a
December 12, 2024
8:00am-12:15pm
Thompson Alumni Center (UNO)
6705 Dodge St. Omaha, NE 68182

Target Audience

This accredited continuing education activity is designed for school personnel and medical professionals to include nurses, APPs, psychologists, social workers, clinical mental health therapists, licensed mental health providers, and school counselors.

Educational Objectives

At the conclusion of this activity, the participants should be better able to:

• Explain the role of universal supports (Tier 1 services) and interprofessional collaboration in promoting resilience and emotional recovery in students and staff after a school crisis, while avoiding over-reliance on medical models of diagnosis and treatment.
• Discuss the importance of psychological first aid and basic supportive services to promoting adjustment after a crisis and minimizing traumatic stress and maladaptive coping mechanisms.
• Differentiate between trauma and grief, recognizing their unique impacts and using a collaborative approach to support emotional recovery for both in students.
• Prioritize self-care and well-being for educators and other staff, including ourselves, integrating strategies to prevent compassion fatigue, vicarious trauma, and moral injury during crisis management.
• Discuss considerations for commemoration and memorialization after a school crisis, balancing the input from school staff, families, and mental health professionals to meet the needs of the community.

Accredited Continuing Education

				In support of improving patient care, University of Nebraska Medical Center is jointly accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME), the Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education (ACPE), and the American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC), to provide continuing education for the healthcare team.
NURSES/Nurse Practitioners The University of Nebraska Medical Center designates this activity for 3.0 ANCC contact hours. Nurses should only claim credit for the actual time spent participating in the activity.
PHYSICIAN ASSISTANTS				University of Nebraska Medical Center has been authorized by the American Academy of PAs (AAPA) to award AAPA Category 1 CME credit for activities planned in accordance with AAPA CME Criteria. This activity is designated for 3.0 AAPA Category 1 CME credits. PAs should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation.
SOCIAL WORKERS				As a Jointly Accredited Organization, University of Nebraska Medical Center is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved under this program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. Social workers completing this course receive 3.0 clinical continuing education credits. The content level of this activity is intermediate.
PSYCHOLOGISTS/LICENSED MENTAL HEALTH PROVIDERS				Continuing Education (CE) credits for psychologists are provided through the co-sponsorship of the American Psychological Association (APA) Office of Continuing Education in Psychology (CEP). The APA CEP Office maintains responsibility for the content of the programs. This activity has been approved for 3.0 credit hours of continuing education credit.

This event is being hosted by the Behavioral Health Education Center of Nebraska (BHECN) and the University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO) Counseling Department and is funded by the Nebraska Department of Health & Human Services (DHHS).