Empower Your Team
with Safety Strategies Librarians often have to be mediators in moments of high tension. This course will equip you and your team with tools to respond to security issues and opioid overdoses, resolve conflicts, and more to ensure you are prepared in these moments. You will also learn how to approach safety from a trauma-informed and equity-centered lens. This half-day online program features experts from across the country. Who should take this course: This course is for librarians and frontline staff to equip you with tactical safety strategies on the ground as you navigate safety risks, high tension, or conflict in the workplace. |
Course Program Half-day intensive November 29, 2023 |
Session 1: Everyone’s Responsibility: Creating a Culture of Safety 12:00-12:25 pm ET |
SPEAKER Kaya Burgin, Branch Manager at Loveland Branch Library of the Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library |
Session 2: Safer Libraries for Staff and Patrons: Trauma-Informed Librarianship 12:00-12:25 pm ET |
SPEAKERS Leticia Cotto, Customer Experience Officer, Hartford Public Library and Catherine G. Corto-Mergins, LCSW, Director of Training, The Village for Families & Children |
Session 3: NARCAN Training: Recognizing and Managing Substance Abuse Incidents 1:15-2:00 pm ET |
SPEAKER Kourtnaye Sturgeon, Director of Education at Overdose Lifeline, Inc. (ODL) |
Session 4: Centering Equity During Conflict
2:00-2:45 pm ET |
SPEAKER Lu Bangura, Director of Equity and Fair Practice at Enoch Pratt Free Library |
Session 5: Engaging with Tweens and Teens in Crisis (and Afterward)
2:55-3:40 pm ET |
SPEAKERS Alex Nyquist, PhD (she, her) is a licensed Pediatric Psychologist at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center (CCHMC) and Stephen Jackson, (he, him) Director of Equity and Antiracism, Oak Park Public Library |
Session 6: Conflict Resolution, Boundaries, and Self-Care in a Customer Service Role
3:45-4:30 pm ET |
SPEAKER Lauren Comito, (she, her) Neighborhood Library Supervisor at the Leonard Branch of the Brooklyn Public Library and Board Chair of Urban Librarians Unite |
Request a discount for groups of 3 or more and work with your colleagues on a project for your library. Purchase 15 or more registrations and apply them across multiple courses. |
Starting at $5,000, purchase packages of course tickets that you can allocate to your staff as needed and apply to our full roster of courses. |
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