School Crisis Healing

2 days ago

Dear SCRR Community,

As we look toward the end of April and toward the end of our project here at the School Crisis Recovery & Renewal project - we are reminded that school crises happen.

They have happened (this last Sunday was 26 years since Columbine).

They are happening (not even one week since the FSU shooting).

And we lovingly, brokenheartedly remind each other: crises will happen. How we handle them and how we hold each other in the aftermath is the work.

We know that school crisis leadership in the aftermath can be isolating, hard, overwhelming, and often dehumanizing, but we lead, and cultivate school crisis leadership that is attuned, aware and adaptable is critical in our journey toward recovery and renewal.

This Thursday, gather to celebrate and learn from the 2024-2025 SCRR Leadership Fellows through their capstone projects, a demonstration of the SCRR Fellow’s vision of recovery and renewal to fill a need in their community or to the broader field and to reflect on the question: What does school crisis recovery & renewal leadership look like, sound like, and feel like in real life?

Register at: bit.ly/SCRR_Capstones25

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School Crisis Healing

7 days ago

A note from our Project Director:


This week, we highlight our Life After Loss & Creating the Container programming, a body of work we’ve cultivated with you and our partners at The Dinner Party.

Over the last four+ years, we’ve offered train-the-trainer sessions on how to start Life After Loss tables (LALTs) - gatherings to honor student death, loss, and the aftermath. We’ve hosted pop-up LALT sessions when there was acute pain: in 2022, we held a LALT to process the Uvalde and Buffalo shootings; in 2024, we held a LALT together to process Nex Benedict’s death, and this year we’ve continued to host by-request LALT spaces to process loss that surrounds us. I’m particularly struck by the two spaces Oriana and MP from The Dinner Party held in March 2025 to mark the 5 years since COVID, inviting us as educators to make meaning together.

During the original Life After Loss table trainings in 2021, we heard that you didn’t only want to be held, you wanted support for how to hold. We then developed our Creating the Container materials and workshops (linked below) that offer guidance for those of you who want to hone the practice of honoring your grief and that of your team in the acute and aftermath of loss.

We believe that healing is collective, that moving forward is not the same as moving on, and that our most honest and revelatory conversations happen not in school board or faculty meetings, but in spaces that feel familiar, with people who’ve been there, too.

We close with a reflection from Oriana Ides who shares her facilitation reflections.

With you in this necessary container,
Leora

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School Crisis Healing

2 weeks ago

Closing SCRR - Celebrating Our Gems

A note from our Project Director:
As we shared in our previous message, SCRR’s funding ends May 30th.

In the weeks leading to our closing, we’ll be sending weekly reflections from our staff with compilations of themed work to download and save.

This week, we highlight our Liberated School Suicide Postvention work, a body of work we’ve cultivated with you since our project’s launch in 2020 and close with reflection from team members Zeruiah and Bri who share their facilitation reflections and highlights of the work.

Enjoy,
-Leora

School-Suicide Postvention Recovery & Renewal Resource Hub - bit.ly/SCRR_PostventionRR

“Liberated School Suicide Postvention - Collective Terminology” - Conversation Summary - bit.ly/SCRR_Postvention_Is

“What We Mean by Liberated” Video - bit.ly/SCRR_Liberated_Def

“Leading with Courage, Care, & Connection: A Reflection Guide for School Leaders Navigating Recovery & Renewal After Student Deaths by Suicide” - bit.ly/SCRR_LeadingPostvention

Issue Brief: Black Youth Suicide Prevention - bit.ly/3YqljPf

Disclosure of Youth Suicidality: Views from Lived Experience - bit.ly/3XSpEKY

“Our Right to Grieve: Grief-Informed Recommendations and Resources” - bit.ly/SCRR_Right_to_Grieve

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