Joffe Academy Plus Membership

Webinars

9/26/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: September is National Suicide Prevention Month and “Swatting” Hoaxes in Schools

Free

Asynchronous Modules

Extracurricular Activities Protocols

Having specific extracurricular activities protocols in place will not only offer safety and peace of mind, but allow for plans to be in place if an emergency occurs outside of the traditional school day .

Webinars

9/12/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Emergency Preparedness on Open Campuses- Philosophy and Considerations Along with COVID Updates

Free

Webinars

8/29/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Meaningful, Trauma-Informed, Emergency Preparedness including Compliance of Drills, How to Make Drills Meaningful and Trauma-Informed Approach

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Steve Smith (8/15/22)

Risk expert, Steve Smith, and Chris Joffe, CEO of Joffe Emergency Services discuss the beneficial risks of outdoor programs and how to design our outdoor programs optimize those beneficial risks.

Free

Urgent Response Resources

Monkeypox Outbreak (8/22)

This training discusses the best practices when addressing the monkeypox outbreak that affected schools in August 2022.

Free

Webinars

8/1/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Reflections from Uvalde and Joffe Division Updates

Free

Webinars

7/18/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Updates from Chris: Who are we? What’s staying the same? What’s new?

Free

Asynchronous Modules

Learning From Near Misses

Outdoor risk expert, Steve Smith, shares how to learn from near misses of incidents. Being able to distinguish between a normal occurrence, a near-miss, and a reportable incident are just a few areas this module will investigate.

Asynchronous Modules

Crisis Communication Planning

This module is designed to help you build a crisis communication plan for your school or organization. We’ll explain why and how communication can make or break your success in responding to an emergency, look at common elements of effective plans.

Asynchronous Modules

Physical Security Best Practices

In this module, you’ll gain a basic understanding of how physical security works, and what to expect from your security team.

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Frank DeAngelis (9/13/21)

National presenter, Frank DeAngelis, and CEO of Joffe Emergency Services, Chris Joffe, discuss reflections on resilience and the leadership needed during recovery.

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut (5/9/22)

Dr. Jaclyn Schildkraut, and Chris Joffe, CEO of Joffe Emergency Services discuss the mass shootings tragedies and the best practices schools can follow to make their learning environment safer for their students and staff.

Free

Webinars

The Jane Group Webinar Recording (March 2020)

Topic: Infection Disease Tabletop Exercise with the Distinguished Presenters, The Jane Group

Free

Webinars

01/10/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Mental Health and COVID Best Practices

Free

Webinars

01/31/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: COVID Trends, Updates, and Best Practices

Free

Webinars

02/28/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Small Groups with Schools, Current Events with Russia and Ukraine, and 5 Things We Expect to See in 2022

Free

Webinars

03/14/22 Webinar Recording

Topics: COVID, Cybersecurity, Russia/Ukraine, and Teacher Shortages

Free

Webinars

03/28/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: COVID and Cybersecurity

Free

Webinars

4/25/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Get CPR Done and Planning for Summer 2022

Free

Webinars

5/23/22 Webinar Recording

Topics: COVID, 100 Days of May, and Mental Health Awareness Month

Free

Webinars

6/6/22 Webinar Recording

Topic: Ending the School Year, Summer 2022, COVID and Monkeypox

Free

Asynchronous Modules

Incident Command Structure (Part 2): How to Create and Run a Tabletop

Once an ICS is in place, it is important for a school to be prepared by practicing emergency scenarios. Running a tabletop allows participants to learn from practicing all steps, procedures, communication methods, and best practices.

Asynchronous Modules

Health Emergencies: Life-Threatening Allergies & Anaphylaxis

Life-threatening allergies require school faculty to be observant and spring into action if necessary. In this module, life-threatening allergies reactions and best practices will be explored.

Asynchronous Modules

Health Emergencies: Asthma

Asthma is a condition that many children have to live with, but when faculty is informed of the details of the conditions and a plan is formed, our children can be even more protected and safe in their community of learning.

Asynchronous Modules

Incident Command Structure (Part 3): Student and Family Reunification

In this module, we will discuss the best practices for student and family reunification after an emergency event.

Asynchronous Modules

Incident Command Structure (Part 1): Incident Command Orientation

When an emergency strikes and the school has an incident command system in place, each staff member knows their role, responsibility, and who to look to for guidance. This module will act as an orientation tool and standard best practices by Joffe.

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Rahel Bayar (4/11/22)

Rahel Bayar and Chris Joffe, discuss sexual abuse and the boundaries needed to bring safety to our schools. Rahel will offer abuse prevention strategies for schools, and demonstrate how to tailor that abuse prevention to best fit your community.

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Dr. Monica Gandhi (2/14/2022)

Dr. Monica Ghandi and Chris Joffe, discuss the history of infectious diseases as it relates to schools. This will act as a roadmap for the current Covid culture schools are dealing with on a daily basis.

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Judy Hawkins and Alicia Garcia with ReSolutionaries (1/31/2022)

Lead associates at The ReSolutionaries Inc. and Chris Joffe, discuss restorative practices, which is a framework to prevent, resolve, and transform conflict. This webinar will offer concrete action items each school can takeaway to manage healing.

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Amanda Hagan, MD with the Cleveland Clinic (12/13/21)

In this 90-minute virtual event, Dr. Hagen shared real-time COVID facts, figures, projections, and recommendations to keep your school community healthy and safe.

Free

Asynchronous Modules

The Importance of FERPA

This introduction to FERPA (Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act) provides a high level overview of the history, rules, and purpose of this important law. After completion of this module, participants will understand how FERPA applies to schools

Asynchronous Modules

Search and Seizure

Students in the United States have the right to be free from unreasonable searches; however, because of the unique need to maintain a safe atmosphere where learning and teaching can occur, schools must strike a balance between the two rights.

Asynchronous Modules

Incident Reports

School incidents can happen fast, which is why it is important to always have an incident report to document the factual information. This module will walk administration and health coordinators through the steps of a report and offer resources.

Asynchronous Modules

Closing Out the School Year Documentation

The end of the year can be a very hectic time, and sometimes, necessary tasks can fall through the cracks. With this Closing Out a School Year Documentation module, administration can receive resources of tasks that need attention.

Asynchronous Modules

Structuring Schools with Well-Being in Mind

We know that now, more than ever, we want to focus on caring for the mental health of teachers and staff. But what exactly does that mean? This module will walk you through a research based framework for well-being at work.

Asynchronous Modules

Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)

Children can experience harmful materials and inappropriate communications online. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was put into place- requiring schools to offer internet safety policies. This module will overview the CIPA guidelines.

Asynchronous Modules

How to Run a Debrief

By the end of this training, you'll be able to confidently lead a debrief after an incident at your school.

Asynchronous Modules

Addressing Trauma Before, During, and After an Event

This module will provide an overview of understanding the stages of trauma, how to intervene with a culturally-sensitive lens, and ways to support the recovery phase after an event.

Asynchronous Modules

Cyberbullying Basics: Prevention & Intervention

This module will review the basics of cyberbullying: what is it, how frequent is it, and why is it particularly threatening? You will also review suggestions for schools to both implement plans for intervention and preventative measures.

Urgent Response Resources

How to respond to TikTok Threats (12/21)

This training discusses the best practices when addressing a social media threat, such as the TikTok trend that affected schools in December of 2021.

Free

Asynchronous Modules

Positive Youth Development

This module is an overview of Positive Youth Development that also provides the opportunity to evaluate your current programs or plan new ones using the lens of PYD.

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Alex Kajitani (8/9/21)

Alex Kajitani, speaker, teacher and author, along with CEO of Joffe Emergency Services, Chris Joffe, discuss creating a culture of belonging and how to help staff and students feel healthy, safe and confident.

Free

The Speaker Series

Speaker Series: Bruce D. Perry, M.D., Ph.D. (10/18/21)

Dr. Bruce D. Perry and Chris Joffe discuss helping your school staff better support students with a history of trauma as well as better understand each other.

Free

Asynchronous Modules

Trauma Informed Schools

Take this course to explore what a trauma informed school looks like. You'll be able to assess your school environment regarding being trauma informed and identify ways to implement trauma informed practices right away.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training from 08/2020: Pandemic Coordinator Training

This pandemic coordinator training looks at the health and safety, facility and operations, as well as administration that is necessary.

Asynchronous Modules

School Health - Building Belonging

Review belonging and mattering from a psychological perspective and plan using research-based ways to increase them in your school.

Asynchronous Modules

Faculty and Staff Crisis Response Orientation

This course can be given directly to your faculty and staff. It discusses elements like calling 911, handling a fire, and much more.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training: School Violence Prevention

This training focuses on the discussion of the best practices for school violence prevention.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training from 03/2021: COVID-19 Vaccines

This training was recorded in February-March of 2021 about educating your community about the Covid-19 vaccine. There is a recording of the training, the slide deck used in the training, and a template slide deck that you can use.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training from 01/2021: Contact Tracing

This was a recorded training from Jan 2021 in which participants honed understanding of the nuances of contract tracing, worked through grey-area situations together, and left more confident with navigating contract tracing issues.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training: How to Debrief an Incident

This is from a live training recorded in 12/2020. The goals were for participants to build knowledge around debriefs including: - Who should be involved -How to set and communicate goals -How to facilitate -How to evaluate and improve

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training from: How to Design & Lead a Tabletop Exercise

This is a previously recorded workshop from 10/2020 where participants developed skills they could bring back to their response team: learning how to design, facilitate, and learn from tabletop exercises.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training For Staff from 08/2020: Food & Play during Covid-19

You can show this training directly to your staff. It covers: Food service Safety while eating Recess Physical Education Youth sports Sharing objects Performing Arts

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training For Community Members from 08/2020: Preparedness at Home During Covid

This training is designed to support families, employees, or anyone adapting to working and/or learning from home more frequently during the 2020-2021 school year. It can be shown directly to your staff and community.

Recorded Trainings

Recorded Training from 08/2020: COVID-19 Health & Safety

This plug and play training reviews: Food service Safety while eating Recess Physical Education Youth sports Sharing objects Performing Arts