Year one we do it with you. Year two you lead and we're in the room. Year three you own it and we're on call.
Year one: co-implementation
SAFER trains your team and is in the building on screening days. Your people do part of it and watch the rest. The absent students become your first solo run, in the two weeks after, with SAFER on call but not present. See Module 3.7.
Quarterly check-ins.
Year two: you lead
Your district runs the screening. SAFER is in the room, available, and not running it. The distinction matters and it is uncomfortable for everyone the first time.
Quarterly check-ins.
Year three: you own it
Your district owns the practice. SAFER is on call. Quarterly check-ins if you want them.
By year three, the safety planner is usually your own school counsellor, and the Elevated Clinical Risk determination is hers to make. That is the design, not a fallback. See Module 5.5.
Why three years and not a workshop
Go slow to go fast. Year one is not slow, because capacity gets built rather than rented.
A school that takes a year to implement properly owns the practice at the end of it. A school that buys a fast rollout owns nothing, and in year two when the trained counsellor leaves, it has nothing left.
Critical Reflection. Think about the last training your school invested in. Who still uses it, and what happened when the person who went to it changed jobs? That is the question the three-year arc is built around.
