• A child with a knife at school
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  • A student cut her wrist with a razor blade in class.
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  • A suicide
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  • Breaking up fights; informing principal of imminent troubles
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  • Child abuse, potential suicides
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  • Consulting with parents that were in Parent Project class; taught this class and others
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  • Dealing with aggressive student over medicated and hostile
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  • Death of a student, murder-suicide of parents of another student.
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  • Death of students
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  • Discovering that a troubled student had a weapon on campus or was thinking about bringing a weapon to campus.
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  • Don’t know
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  • Early intervention with potentially violent students that has prevented incident escalation.
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  • Getting help for children making threats about others
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  • Gun on campus, student threats of violence
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  • Had to involve authorities
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  • Heard rumor of a weapon and followed through
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  • Helped diffuse the situation
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  • Highly upset, angry and hostile parent who was making verbal threats and becoming increasingly agitated with school staff.
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  • I believe I helped avert a gang-related retaliation crime
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  • I think that I have been helpful in averting a crisis in the sense that my response to the initial crisis has prevented it from having a larger impact on individuals as well as on the entire school community.
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  • Identified students with suicidal ideation.
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  • Identifying at-risk students and facilitating medical and psychological interventions, consulting with parents, administrators and teachers regarding at-risk behavior in students, running anger management classes and counseling groups--in short building relationships with students and facilitating appropriate problem solving in their lives.
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  • Identifying conflicts with peers and implementing conflict management, discussing gun issues with children, discussing cause and effect situations with crisis, sexual harrassment, etc.
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  • Intervened with a troubled student who described access to weapons, and displayed violent tendencies. Many ongoing relationships with students identified as "at-risk".
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  • Intervening with angry, threatening high school senior talking about acts of violence on school and staff, multiple suicide interventions, & staff nervous breakdown in public forum.
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  • Intervention when child drew up "hit list", preventing major after school fight
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  • Intervention with students with suicidal/homicidal ideations. Also, helping to implement school-wide violence prevention programs and conflict resolution programs.
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  • It is impossible to say what might have happened. Sometimes it's just a hunch that working things through a little more thoroughly. I don't keep track or put much energy into wondering "what if". It happens all the time.
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  • I've actually not known about the crisis before it happened, like the Northridge earthquake
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  • Knife attack
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  • Largely, getting intervention services for students with high violence potential
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  • Most have been to prevent a student from harming themselves. Two physical fights were averted and one threat to staff was de-escalated.
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  • N/A
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  • N/A
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  • Parent with multiple personality told me she was going to kill her child. Another time, I Reported a knife carried by a child who planned to cause a disruption at recess. I was called to a high school where a number of suicides had occurred.
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  • Preventing groups of students from retaliating from neighborhood crisis.
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  • Preventing students from fighting through conflict resolution. I also find time to get to know my students and let them know I'm there to help them.
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  • Preventing suicidal students from completing suicide, student who threatened homicide was prevented (so far), stopped students who have made threats of bombs, violence, etc. from following through.
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  • Recently there were some death threats made from one student to another - I had to debrief the student, then work with the administration on referring the student to mental health services.
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  • Rumor of note which identified 6 students to be killed by a bomb. Note was never found but entire 7-8 grades knew about it. All students were addressed by me which apparently stopped all intention or rumors or talk about it.
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  • Student threatening the principal's life
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  • Student was killed in a car accident leaving school, a very popular student
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  • Students attempting suicide, parents attempting suicide or homicide, students attempting to hurt others, parents attempting to hurt others.
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  • Students come and tell me info in a conf. session so I can get help…to prevent violence or a suicide
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  • Suicidal students & other students following another student's suicide
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  • Suicidal students…serious threats or attempts. Removing weapons (knives) from students' possession. Recognizing escalation behaviors and alerting staff.
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  • Suicidal, Physical Violence, Vandalizing, Gang Violence, Drug Use and Selling
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  • Suicide intervention
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  • Suicide intervention
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  • Suicide prevention
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  • Suicide prevention
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  • Suicide prevention
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  • Suicide prevention
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  • Suicide Prevention
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  • Suicide prevention, a student who was contemplating hurting some school personnel, a child who was threatening others.
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  • Suicide prevention/assault and battery of student by teacher
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  • Suicide prevention: calling parents, arranging family therapy through outside resources, facilitating psychiatric hospitalization, providing follow-up care, etc.
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  • Suicide threats
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  • Suicide, anger/hostility, fighting, students with dangerous objects. I offer counseling to the student and family, outside referrals, consulting with staff/administration.
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  • Teachers in the school where I worked were severely traumatized after the Northridge earthquake and couldn't work. I used relaxation response and counseling to help them get through the aftershock and return to work.
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  • This is hard to say - through counseling it is hard to know if I have averted a crisis or not - I work with students who bring "weapons" to school but I am in an elementary district so guns have not been involved - although I answered no I like to think I may have averted a crisis but I can not bring to mind a specific.
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  • Threat of murder
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  • Threat of suicide
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  • Two different students writing despairing letters that included threats of violence to student and to selves.
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  • Two times: a student threatening a teacher and/or student. Two situations of actively suicidal students on campus with weapons of planned demise.
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  • Usually quiet, but picked on student reacted aggressively by throwing a chair in a classroom toward student. I immediately worked with him & his family to develop a support plan where he and his peers could be safe.
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  • When children threaten to hurt others / bring a weapon to school / threaten to suicide and I counsel them, work with parents and refer to appropriate agencies.


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