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2021 Conference: Current Maryland High School Students Present “School Safety through the Eyes of Your Students: Ask a Student!”
Do your students really feel safe in your school? What do they think of the climate of their school? What does safety look like in the eyes of your students? What more needs to be done to keep students feeling safer? All of these questions and more can be answered in this Ask Me Anything-style panel session with teen members of the inaugural MCSS Student Focus Group. This is your opportunity to get student feedback on your school safety initiatives and ideas from the students with all work to serve.
2021 Conference: Michele Gay and Lee-Nadine Oppenheim Present “Especially Safe: An Inclusive Approach to Safety Preparedness in Educational Settings”
Many will want to attend this snapshot presentation of the newly-released safety planning and training program for individuals with Access and Functional Needs. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss the program and sign up to pilot it in their school or district.
2021 Conference: “Handle with Care Maryland – Program Overview and Updates”
In February 2018, Governor Hogan announced that Maryland will implement the Handle with Care program statewide. At his direction, the Governor’s Office of Crime Control & Prevention is implementing the Handle with Care model across the state to increase trauma-informed approaches and to address Adverse Childhood Experiences to prevent future victimization or criminality. If a law enforcement officer encounters a child during a call, that child’s name and three words, HANDLE WITH CARE, are forwarded to the school/child care agency before the school bell rings the next day. Read more…
2021 Conference: Thomas Rivalis Presents “Drafting and Developing High Quality School Emergency Operations Plans”
During his presentation Thomas Rivalis will share how to draft and develop high quality school emergency operations plans. Rivalis is the project manager for the Grant-Funded School Emergency Management initiative jointly administered by the Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA) and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). He has been an EMS provider for 17 years. Read more…
2021 Conference: Bryant Wu Presents “Ransomware and Risk”
Ransomware is a significant and growing threat to the education sector, and Bryant Wu, a Senior Intelligence Analyst at the Maryland Coordination and Analysis Center (MCAC), where he started, and currently leads, the Cyber Threat Analysis Section (CTAS), is excited to shed more light on this important topic. Since its inception in 2019, Wu’s CTAS has worked diligently to keep its ever-expanding network informed about developments in the cyber threat environment.
2021 Conference: Thomas Kelley Presents “Responding to Gangs In Schools”
Master Police Officer Thomas Kelley provides an overview of the National Gang Center’s Responding to Gangs in School Guide and highlights the importance of responding to gangs within a school setting using a collaborative approach between law enforcement and school administration. He’ll cover the following three broad topics: (1) Gang activity, identification, and assessment, (2) Planning and implementing a collaborative approach, and (3) Prevention, intervention, and suppression techniques.
2021 Conference: Jenn Lynn Presents “Positive Interactions with Autistic, I/DD Students”
Personal and professional experience in the field of disability and law enforcement has afforded Jenn Lynn a very well-rounded perspective on how to encourage successful interactions that meet the needs of everyone. School Resource & Security officers encounter disabled and vulnerable population daily and some interactions can be difficult. Jenn Lynn will walk you through the basics of how to find the positives in very challenging situations and how to form a trusting bond with the children that will grow your relationships.
2021 Conference: Robin Shusko Presents “Promoting a Positive Safety Culture Within Educational Settings”
A strong, positive safety culture is a critical core value of many educational institutions and is also a reflection of the academic administrators, faculty, and students within an educational institution. When a culture of safety is promoted and actively practiced, it imparts a sense of confidence and caring for all employees as well as the entire community. Presenter Robin Shusko will provide guidance, recommendations, and an overview for strengthening and promoting a positive safety culture.
2021 Conference: Rosalyn Berkowitz Presents “Nonfatal Strangulation: It’s More Common Than You Think!”
Nonfatal strangulation is present in as many as sixty-eight percent of domestic violence cases. It is being identified in an increasing number of child abuse cases as well. Teens don’t understand that the choking game is also a form of strangulation and carries the same risks. Strangulation often leaves no visible injuries; therefore, presenter Rosalyn Berkowitz will ensure anyone working with children becomes familiar with the signs and symptoms and medical consequences associated with strangulation.
2021 Conference: Evelyn Kim Presents “Forensic Evaluation of Gunshot Wounds”
If there was a shooting at your school would you know how to preserve evidence? Would you know how to properly document the physical evidence? Evelyn Kim will help you examine close, intermediate, and distant ranges of fire. Depending on the distance a gun is fired will determine the characteristics of each injury. This information is crucial in identifying exactly what happened in a shooting, who was the shooter, how close was the gun, and whether the evidence supports the story.
Evelyn Kim currently is working as a forensic nurse examiner. She graduated from Villa Julie College with a Bachelors of Science in nursing. She began her nursing career, twenty-five years ago, at R. Adams Cowley Shock Trauma Center, but most of her nursing career was spent working the night shift in a Baltimore City emergency room. She volunteered for several years as an EMT with the Cockeysville Volunteer Fire Department.
Currently, Evelyn is certified as a pediatric and adolescent/adult forensic nurse examiner (FNE) and holds the national level of certification through the International Association of Forensic Nurses. She has been working as a forensic nurse examiner for the last nine years of her nursing career. She teaches forensic evaluation of gunshot wounds, neurobiology of trauma and forensic experiential trauma techniques (FETI), forensic photography, Child Physical Abuse and Injury Interpretation.
She was awarded “Baltimore’s Best Nurse” in women’s health for Baltimore Magazine. She has trained a service dog through HeroDogs, Inc.. She volunteers with Chesapeake Search Dogs and is National Search And Rescue certified and is training her german shepherd, K-9 Violet in Air Scent Search work.
Education Administrators, Teachers, School Psychologists/Guidance Counselors, School Resource Officers (SROs), Law Enforcement, Local/State Emergency Managers, Fusion Center Analysts, Crisis Intervention Units, Counselors & Mental Health Specialists, School Social Workers, School Safety Professionals, and other school safety stakeholders interested in attending Evelyn Kim’s presentation should register for the July 2021 MCSS School Safety Summer Conference at http://conference2021.safeschoolsmd.org/.