Resources
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Gail Harding, CBC News | August 22, 2020
Trauma expert says kids can feed off adults' back-to-school jitters
Crisis counsellor also notes parents need support during this unusual process
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/nb-adults-key-return-to-school-trauma-expert-1.5695903
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Heidi Atter, CBC News | July 7, 2020
Expert warns children may bring more trauma into the classroom after pandemic
Kevin Cameron suggests parents have open conversations with their children and teachers reach out early
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Tim Kalinowski | April 14, 2020
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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Kevin Ma | December 7, 2019
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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BC Government News | November 21, 2019
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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New York Times | March 14, 2018
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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Alberta Primetime | March 14, 2018
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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Erica Goode and Benedict Carey | October 7, 2015
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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CBC News | November 27, 2014
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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Gayle MacDonald | April 16, 2014
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.