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District staff present updated suicide prevention, intervention and postvention regulation; trustees press for clarity on roles, Tarasoff/NRS references and re‑
Summary
CCSD directors described an expanded, research-based suicide prevention regulation that increases the multi-disciplinary response team, removes named tools in favor of evidence-based processes, and aligns postvention steps with state toolkits; trustees asked for clearer definitions of teams and statutory references.
Carson City School District staff on Tuesday presented a substantially rewritten regulation to accompany Policy 270 on suicide prevention, intervention and postvention, emphasizing clarified roles for a multi-disciplinary response team, standardized screening procedures and updated postvention protocols.
Christy Perkins, director of MTSS and student wellness, and Christina Sapien, a licensed clinical social worker who oversees Project AWARE services for the district, told trustees the policy text itself required only modest edits but that the regulation had been substantially revised to remove named tools and obsolete resource references and to expand the list of…
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