In the wake of some lockdowns at local schools in the Sudbury and Manitoulin districts earlier this year, an expert on crisis response will talk to parents through a virtual presentation hosted by the Rainbow District School Board.
Kevin J. Cameron led the crisis response following the 1999 school shooting in Taber, Alberta, just eight days after the Columbine school shooting.
He is making a special presentation to parents to deal with school lockdowns and other serious crises virtually tomorrow evening.
According to the press release, Cameron is being hosted by the board’s Violence Threat Risk Assessment Steering Committee, which has had a Community Threat Assessment Protocol in place locally since 2011.
Cameron is a board-certified expert and a Diplomat for the American Academy of Experts in Traumatic Stress. After being seconded by the Alberta Government to study the traumatic aftermath of the school shooting in Taber, Cameron developed the Traumatic Event Systems Model, Canada’s first comprehensive, multidisciplinary VTRA training program, in concert with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Behavioural Sciences Unit.
An expert in Threat Assessment and Trauma Response for British Columbia’s ERASE initiative, he is also the Lead Clinician for the Surrey Wrap Youth Gang Prevention Program and oversees the largest urban VTRA training initiative in North America funded by a Federal Government Public Safety Grant.
Close to 100 various agencies across the province are applying the multi-agency VTRA Model to address all forms of violence, with a special emphasis on Violent Extremism.
In 2018, Cameron also organized the North American Center for Threat Assessment and Trauma Response’s first ever U.S. specific operation. From this partnership came “NACTATR US” and the development of VTRA software which will be the first human-assisted technology to apply the highest levels of VTRA from single incident cases to complex community violence prevention initiatives.
Everyone is welcome to join this free presentation online via Zoom at 6:30 pm Wednesday evening:
Zoom: bit.ly/safeschoolsandvtra
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