HIGH PROFILE TRAUMA ON APRIL 6TH, 2018 AT LEAST 15 LIVES WERE LOST AND MANY OTHERS WERE INJURED IN A TRAGIC COLLISION INVOLVING THE WELL-BELOVED HUMBOLDT BRONCOS. ALL WERE PART OF THE HUMBOLDT FAMILY AND THE LOCAL RESPONSE TO THE TRAGEDY IS UNFATHOMABLE AT THIS TIME. SEVERAL PLAYERS ON THE TEAM ARE FROM OUTSIDE SASKATCHEWAN INCLUDING ALBERTA AND MANITOBA MAKING THIS A WESTERN CANADIAN TRAUMATIC EVENT. HOWEVER, WITH HOCKEY BEING SO DEAR TO THE HEARTS OF CANADIANS AND OTHER TRAGEDIES WITH SIMILARITIES FROM THE PAST, WE ARE ALREADY SEEING A “REKINDLING” OF TRAUMA SYMPTOMS FROM ACROSS THE COUNTRY.
Experts believe that it is rare for school-related violence to happen out of the blue. These events are most often carefully planned and developed. According to Alberta violence threat risk assessment teams, perpetrators leave enough indicators to alert those paying attention, and spotting the signs before it escalates to stop violence before it starts.
Experts believe that it is rare for school-related violence to happen out of the blue. These events are most often carefully planned and developed. According to Alberta violence threat risk assessment teams, perpetrators leave enough indicators to alert those paying attention, and spotting the signs before it escalates to stop violence before it starts.
As mass shootings have become ever more familiar, experts have come to understand them less as isolated expressions of rage and more as acts that build on the blueprints of previous rampages. Experts in violence prevention say that many, if not most, perpetrators of such shootings have intensively researched earlier mass attacks, often expressing admiration for those who carried them out.
A trauma expert is helping Saskatoon teachers learn how to recognize the signs of extreme stress in students, as a first step in preventing violence or suicide. Kevin Cameron has another message as well: It's not only up to teachers to spot the signs, but also parents and other adults involved in the lives of children and teens.
As executive director of the Canadian Centre for Threat Assessment and Trauma Response, Kevin Cameron spends his days trying to defuse crisis situations and help victims, families, schools and communities make sense of tragedies that seem nonsensical.
HIGH PROFILE TRAUMA On April 6th, 2018 at least 15 lives were lost and many others were injured in a tragic collision involving the well-beloved Humboldt Broncos. All were part of the Humboldt family and the local response to the tragedy is unfathomable at this time. Several players on the team are from outside Saskatchewan including Alberta and Manitoba making this a Western Canadian traumatic event.
