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.
Who to Contact
Who to Contact
Regional School Safety Center Programs
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Read the latest news
- 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
ESD 112 offers pathways to working in a classroom and beyond
ESD 112’s mission has always been to equalize educational opportunities for learning communities through innovative partnerships, responsive leadership, and exceptional programs. It’s in these partnerships and programs that we help districts “grow their own” teachers [...]
Standard Response Protocol Initiative launched for enhanced regional school safety
In a significant move towards bolstering school safety and emergency preparedness, ESD 112’s Regional School Safety Center hosted an online forum on February 7 dedicated to implementing the Standard Response Protocol across schools and emergency [...]
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Adapted from Elizabeth Moore, Regional Behavioral Health Educator NCESD The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit The Ask Suicide-Screening Questions (ASQ) Toolkit is a free resource, downloadable from the NIMH site and very quick to use. [...]
Washington teachers connect Social Justice with Climate Education
On February 8, teachers from across the region gathered for the “Climate Justice League, Assemble!” workshop. Held at Vancouver’s Water Educational Resource Center, the workshop aimed to deepen participants’ understanding of climate justice. Through self-reflection, [...]
ESD 112 equalizes educational opportunities for learning communities through innovative partnerships, responsive leadership, and exceptional programs.