Partnership & Solutions for Safe & Healthy Students
About
About the Regional School Safety Center
The Regional School Safety Center (RSSC) at ESD 112 is the heart of a comprehensive, community-wide approach to school-based safety planning and behavioral and mental health support. The RSSC works in close partnership with OSPI.
By utilizing a combination of best-practices approaches to behavioral health, student threat assessment, school safety coordination, and wellness and treatment services, a more complete picture of student needs and supports can be developed. The RSSC creates unique connections across school, community, state, and local systems to provide a comprehensive approach to behavioral health and school safety.
The RSSC offers a comprehensive “one-stop-shop” solution to school safety needs.
Services
Regional School Safety Center Services
Using a best practices approach and point people assigned to areas of focus, ESD 112’s RSSC provides a comprehensive picture of student needs and available supports.
Development and implementation of suicide prevention and behavioral health supports to increase access to care for youth and families.
Works collaboratively with statewide and local networks to support K-12 schools in planning and responding to public health initiatives.
Comprehensive, multi-layered approach to emergency operations planning that addresses training, pre-planning, community relationshipbuilding, and real-time support in an emergency.
Proactive partnership with school staff and community partners to assess threats and determine the level of concern and action required; organize resources and strategies to manage situations involving people who pose threats to others; and maintain a sense of psychological safety within the community.
Provides screening, assessment, brief intervention, individual, group and family treatment to children and adolescents who present with varying levels of substance use and/or mental health concerns.
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Who to Contact
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- February, 2025 Regional School Safety Center News Winter 2025
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- March, 2024 Regional School Safety Center News Spring 2024
- January, 2024 You're Invited! Regional Forum on Standard Response Protocol
- December, 2023 Regional School Safety Center News Winter 2023-24
- September, 2023 Regional School Safety Center News
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Student & School Success News
Cowlitz County youth learn leadership skills at annual Prevention Summit
On March 21, 2025, more than 250 sixth graders from Cowlitz County public schools gathered at the Longview First Baptist Church for the annual Youth Leadership and Prevention Summit, a full-day conference designed to build [...]
nPower Girls Inspires the next generation of female leaders
March is Women's History Month, a perfect opportunity to highlight nPower Girls, an impactful program inspiring young minds throughout the ESD 112 region. nPower Girls connects elementary-aged girls to female mentors in STEM careers, offering [...]
School districts explore innovative tech solutions at ESD 112 Showcase
Tech directors and other school staff from across the region joined over 20 vendors at ESD 112 on January 30 for the annual Technology Procurement Vendor Showcase. This event provides an opportunity to equip classrooms [...]
Prevent expands opioid prevention efforts
Prevent Coalition (Prevent), a community coalition formed in 2003 and supported by the fiscal agent Educational Service District 112, has received an Opioid Prevention Grant to help fight opioid misuse among youth in Clark County. [...]
