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Trauma expert helps groups deal with COVID-19 fallout
A prominent crisis counsellor and trauma expert says the world has never seen anything like the COVID-19 crisis in recent memory, and it is aggravating already difficult human interactions in the workplace and in the home...
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Region signs violence prevention protocol
Schools, police and community leaders signed a deal this week that could help prevent school shootings. About 90 people were at the St. Albert Curling Club Wednesday to witness the signing of the St. Albert regional Violence Threat Risk Assessment (VTRA) Protocol.
https://www.stalberttoday.ca/local-news/region-signs-violence-prevention-vtra-protocol-1914450
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Student safety increased through school-police partnerships
A stronger partnership between schools and police is helping keep more B.C. students safe. A new collaborative and comprehensive resource for use by schools and police is intended to ensure consistent practices are followed provincewide and will help to proactively identify risk, guide interventions and provide supports for students when they need them most.
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Limits to Law and Information Sharing, Despite Gunman’s Danger Signs
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.
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Preventing school-related violence in Alberta
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.
https://alberta.ctvnews.ca/preventing-school-related-violence-in-alberta-1.3843223
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Mass Killings Are Seen as a Kind of Contagion
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/08/science/mass-killers-often-rely-on-past-perpetrators-blueprints.html
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Saskatoon teachers learn to spot trauma in students
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.
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A crisis-response specialist talks about the Calgary stabbings
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.
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Are Mass Murderers Insane? Usually Not, Researchers Say
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.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/health/mass-murderers-mental-illness.html?t=0/