How to Support Emotional Well-Being After Incidents of Violence 

The Impact of Trauma by the Numbers

Individuals who have experienced trauma are: 

• 15 times more likely to attempt suicide
• 4 times more likely to become an alcoholic
• 4 times more likely to inject drugs
• 3 times more likely to experience depression
• 3 times more likely to have serious job problems
• 2.5 times more likely to smoke
• 2 times more likely to develop chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Details on the Navigate360 Trauma Response Course 

The Navigate360 Trauma Response course delivers comprehensive training to your staff and administrators quickly and efficiently, at their convenience.

Training modules include: 

• Introduction and Defining Trauma: Introduction for learners to understand how the course works along with definitions and warning signs after an incident.
• Preparedness Timeline: When a violent critical incident occurs, it sets off a timeline containing steps that should be taken to ensure your school is prepared.
• Coping and Healing: Learners will understand the importance of acknowledging the emotions of those affected and will learn various healing activities that can be performed to help cope with their trauma.
• Media Coverage: This will cover the importance of minimizing media exposure and coverage of those affected, including where and how to manage this.
• Moving On: Understand what happens beyond the hours following an incident, including strategies on how to move on, honest conversations with those affected, safety drills and counseling.
• Anniversaries: This module describes the importance of sensitivity around anniversary dates and how to prepare for and perform first, second, fifth, and tenth year anniversaries.
• Safety Drills After a Violent Critical Incident and Course Summary: Understand the need for sensitivity around safety drills after any sort of violent critical incident, and what kind of emotions this may cause in those participating.