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Webinar: Mental Health in the Workplace (Members Only)

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Over the last few years, the conversation surrounding mental health in our society has become increasingly prominent. From viral social media posts to legislative actions, the importance of addressing mental health concerns within the workplace has never been more evident. In this webinar, the CharterSAFE team will review mental health trends and provide resources and best practices to guide your workforce toward an empathetic and safe working environment.

Please save the date to join us on Thursday, May 2nd at 1 pm for an impactful webinar on mental health awareness in the workplace.

RECORDED WEBINARS

Webinar: Leaves of Absence, Reasonable Accommodations, & Workplace Restrictions (Members Only)

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CharterSAFE's Human Resources, Risk Management, and Workers' Compensation teams are hosting a webinar to assist our members in navigating the complexities of managing employee leaves, accommodations, and workplace restrictions. In some situations, an added layer of intricacy when managing leaves and accommodation requests may involve workers' compensation claims, safety, and risk management.

This webinar will provide an overview of CharterSAFE’s best practices and approach to handling these complicated topics, by providing a comprehensive and holistic approach to managing leaves, accommodations, and workplace restrictions.

HR Webinar: Legal & Respectful Employee Separations (Members Only)

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Employee separations are common as the school year ends whether an employee voluntarily chooses to resign, or a school decides to non-renew staff or terminate staff for cause because of poor performance or violation of school policies. Some charter schools may be faced with layoffs because of declining student enrollment, budget constraints, and other related reasons. Please join us for an overview of the HR and payroll steps to manage the employee separation process to help protect your school from employee lawsuits while simultaneously conducting any employee separation in a mindful and respectful manner.

Webinar: State of the Market, Shrinkflation, and 2024-2025 CharterSAFE Renewal Predictions (Members Only)

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Join us on March 11 as we share our perspective on the continued retreat from California by the insurance market. We shall discuss the shrinkflation associated with an insurance industry hammered by climate change and liability losses. And in sharp contrast how the CharterSAFE self-insured pool continues to navigate the same challenges successfully. Finally, we will share the very good news about your rates for the 24/25 year!

HR Webinar: Documentation: Why It Matters for Discipline, Termination, Leaves & Reasonable Accommodations (Members Only)

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Bernadette O'Brien discusses why documentation matters when addressing employee issues regarding discipline, termination for cause, leaves of absence, and reasonable accommodations.

HR Webinar: Recruit Well, Hire Right Refresher (Members Only)

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Join us for our 3rd annual Recruit Well & Hire Right for the 2024-2025 School Year on February 15, 2024, from 1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. It’s that time of year when charter schools do most of their recruiting for the coming school year. If you are new to Human Resources or have experience doing HR, we want to share information that will help your organization recruit and hire good candidates.

We’ve updated our webinar content, and our expanded topics include:

• Preparing to recruit: Fundamentals on creating job descriptions, reviewing pay scale requirements, understanding challenges during interviews, reviewing employment agreement considerations, and the importance of screening out potential candidates who could pose a risk to your student population.
• Recruiting Well: Where to find good candidates, identifying red flags on resumes, creating effective interview questions, managing the accommodation process during interviews, and what not to do during the recruiting process.
• Hiring Right: Understanding the new California Civil Rights Department updated regulations if your school chooses to disqualify a candidate because of background issues, how to check references & backgrounds, confirming proper credentials, getting ahead of staff/student boundary issues, and robust onboarding practices.

 

HR Webinar: Meal and Rest Breaks - Why Minutes Matter (Members Only)

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Your charter school’s non-exempt/hourly employees are the “source” of most employee lawsuits, and most of these lawsuits allege your charter school did not provide these employees with compliant meal and rest breaks. To help your organization understand the legal ramifications and financial consequences of this major wage/hour issue, join us for a webinar presented by Bernadette M. O’Brien, Esq., a partner and employment law specialist at Floyd Skeren Manukian Langevin. Bernadette’s law firm helps to defend employers against these allegations, and she has a unique perspective on how to protect your charter school to address these wage/hour issues before they become employee lawsuits.

HR Webinar: Ready, Set, Go! Part 2 (Members Only)

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Let’s kick off your school’s HR needs for the Spring Semester of the 2023-2024 school year! Our HR webinar topics include new HR laws effective January 1, 2024, and HR tasks by month for the spring semester. We will provide updates regarding trends of hot HR topics we are seeing during the fall semester such as leaves/reasonable accommodation, performance issues with newly hired staff, and managing the employee separation process including non-renewing employees for the 2023-2024 school year. Our webinar will be especially useful if you are new to HR or new to the charter school environment.

RM Webinar: Create a Safe, Inclusive, and Thriving Learning Environment with Community Matters (Members Only)

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Learn more about our partner, Community Matters, and the programs and services that are available to help your schools create and sustain safe and inclusive school climates, reduce threats on campus, empower students as a part of the solution, and create restorative cultures where all youth thrive.

Some of the programs that will be discussed:

• Safe School Ambassadors Program: Grant funding currently available for this evidence-based youth empowerment, bullying prevention program
• Restorative Practices: Grant funding currently available to help your schools create a more restorative culture
• Voice Up: Student training on preventing sexual abuse and molestation
• Parent Workshops: Including Cyberbullying and Restorative Practices
• And more

RM Webinar: Deadly Weapons Protection Webinar (Members Only)

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CharterSAFE provides all members who participate in the liability-property package coverages with a Deadly Weapons Protection Insurance Policy, which ensures that critical resources will be available in a timely way to help manage the aftermath of a critical incident, such as a shooting. These resources are provided by CrisisRisk, the event responder attached to the Beazley Deadly Weapons Protection Policy. CrisisRisk is a crisis & consequence management firm, founded by individuals with decades of unrivaled crisis management experience in the public and private sectors and has handled hundreds of crises, including some of the largest in the nation.

Join us for a webinar on August 30th to learn about the Deadly Weapons Protection Program and the resources available to your school before & after a crisis occurs.

RM Webinar: STOPit Solutions: Anonymous Reporting & Student SEL Training Webinar (Members Only)

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With mental health issues and violence impacting our schools, CharterSAFE recognized the urgency to provide our members with resources that can help mitigate these exposures. Because students are more likely to report warning signs of potentially threatening behavior if an anonymous reporting system is available to them, CharterSAFE has continued its partnership with STOPit Solutions to offer FREE resources to members aimed at helping individuals displaying violent, unsafe, or unhealthy behaviors before they escalate into a crisis while also addressing mental health and well-being through upstream education and best practices. Join us for a webinar to learn about STOPit Solutions Anonymous Reporting System and SEL Student Wellness Training Center for your school and its implementation.

HR Webinar: Ready, Set, Go! Part 1 (Members Only)

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Please join us for CharterSAFE’s HR kickoff for the 2023-2024 school year by registering for our webinar “Ready Set Go – Part 1” on Wednesday, June 7, 2023, from 10 am to noon. This special 2-hour webinar will include HR tasks by month for the fall semester as well as getting ahead of ongoing HR issues such as leaves/reasonable accommodations, performance issues with newly hired staff, and managing the termination process before Thanksgiving and Winter breaks. We will also do an overview of new HR news and what this means for the coming school year. This HR webinar will be especially useful for your staff who are new to HR or new to the charter school environment. For everyone else, this will be a great refresher. We will share useful resources including our updated and expanded HR Month-At-A-Glance checklist.

HR Webinar: Managing Employee Performance Issues & Workplace Accommodation Requests (Members Only)

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With an increase in member requests for assistance in managing employee performance issues concurrent with their request for workplace accommodations, we want to help charter school leaders and HR staff understand the inherent challenges in navigating this “intersection” including how to avoid possible employee claims against your school. To facilitate this learning, we developed a webinar to review the employee discipline process, provide an overview of accommodations and exam the components of the reasonable accommodation/interactive dialogue process. Attendees will take these learning components and apply their knowledge to 3 real-time case studies. We will end the webinar with a review of the CharterSAFE accommodation forms.

HR Webinar: Legal & Respectful Employee Separations (Open to All)

Employee separations are common as the school year ends whether an employee voluntarily chooses to resign, or a school decides to non-renew staff for poor performance and/or violation of school policies. However, this year charter schools may be faced with layoffs because of declining student enrollment, budget constraints and other related reasons. Join us for an overview of the HR and payroll steps to manage the employee separation process to help protect your school from employee lawsuits while simultaneously conducting any employee separation in a mindful and respectful manner.

What will you learn? Attendees will learn about the following types of separations which end an individual’s employment at a charter school: resignations, non-renewals (including the EDD/School Employees Fund unemployment insurance process), and involuntary terminations such as “for cause” and layoffs. We will also discuss the impact of “at-will” employment in relation to involuntary terminations. Attendees will learn about the steps to take before, during and after any separation. We will also discuss best practice recommendations to manage a layoff and the pros/cons of offering a severance/separation agreement to a departing employee.

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HR Webinar: Mental Health Awareness & the Post COVID-19 Workplace (Members Only)

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CharterSAFE is experiencing a dramatic increase in member requests for support to help employees who are experiencing a mental health crisis. This may be a result of significant external forces impacting everyone – COVID-19, political differences, economic uncertainty – just to name a few. As a result, we want to provide information to your school’s leadership and HR staff about mental health trends and provide resources to guide your workforce to an empathetic and safe work environment. Using current trends and real-time scenarios, we will share best steps for your charter school to take when engaging employees.

HR Challenges, Tasks, and Projects for the Spring Semester (Open to All)

Presented January 25, 2023

CharterSAFE provides access to no-cost resources that help mitigate the organizational risk for charter schools during these unprecedented times.  Topics covered in this webinar including working from home, security property, cleaning schools and workplaces and human resource related updates.

HR Webinar: Ready, Set, Go! Part 2 (Members Only)

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Our HR webinar topics include new HR laws effective January 1, 2023, and HR tasks by month for the spring semester. We will provide updates regarding trends of hot HR topics we are seeing during the fall semester such as leaves/reasonable accommodation, performance issues with newly hired staff, and managing the employee separation process including non-renewing employees for the 2023-2024 school year. Our webinar will be especially useful if you are new to HR or new to the charter school environment.

2021 CharterSAFE Virtual Summit

CharterSAFE is excited to invite you to attend our 2021 Virtual Summit on October 13 for the Executive Track and October 14 for the General Track. Join your fellow CharterSAFE members for a day of education. We have something for everyone, join one or all sessions. We are proud to offer free training sessions that are designed to strengthen your operations and reduce risks in the upcoming school year.

COVID-19 Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standard (Members Only)

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On November 30, 2020 the Cal/OSHA Emergency Temporary Standards (ETS) went into effect. Employers will be required to have a Written COVID-19 Prevention Program (WCPP). We will discuss the required elements within the program, the similarities and differences between the ETS and AB685. Attendees will understand their requirements under this regulation and be equipped to develop a compliant WCPP.

2021 Employment Law Update (Members Only)

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Watch this webinar recording for a review of new employment laws specific to charter schools which will be effective January 1, 2021. Topics in this webinar recording include: California Family Rights Act expansion (and the repeal of the New Parent Leave Act), amendments to the California Fair Employment Housing Act’s protected categories, Paid Family Leave expansions, January 1, 2021 deadline for sexual harassment prevention training for employers, amendments to AB5/independent contractors in the workplace, the CalSavers Program for schools that do not have retirement plans, California Department of Labor Standards Enforcement statute of limitations expansion on retaliation claims and recovery of attorneys’ fees for whistleblowers, significant local and state minimum wage changes, expanded penalties for failure to pay wages, and leave law updates for crime victims.

CharterSAFE Virtual Summit

CharterSAFE reimagined our Annual Regional Meetings! Due to COVID-19, we have redesigned these annual gatherings to prioritize your safety. The CharterSAFE Virtual Summit was held September 29–October 1, 2020, and featured the same high-quality sessions you would expect during the in-person events. Click on the link above to view the webinars that are highlighted below at anytime.

• Advocating a Workplace Culture of Respect
• Employee Injuries: Trends and Prevention
• How Can CharterSAFE Services Make My Job Easier?
• Wildfires - Understanding the Threats...Recovering from the Effects
• Boundaries - Preventing Sexual Abuse Claims
• How to Keep Your School from Being Sued by Your Employees

Planning 2020-21 School Budgets - What you need to know about the insurance market (Members Only)

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Your organization's annual budgets serve as an essential tool to help you achieve your goals as quickly - and as realistically - as possible. Watch this webinar to learn more about properly planning for insurance related expenses, understand the drivers of these increases and how CharterSAFE is uniquely positioned to successfully negotiate on your behalf.

Avoiding Claims - COVID-19 Risk Management Issues (Open to All)

Presented March 31, 2020

CharterSAFE provides access to no-cost resources that help mitigate the organizational risk for charter schools during these unprecedented times.  Topics covered in this webinar including working from home, security property, cleaning schools and workplaces and human resource related updates.

Executive Order N-62-20 Workers Compensation and COVID-19 (Open to All)

Presented June 3, 2020

On May 6, 2020, Governor Newsom announced Executive Order N-62-20. This executive order creates a rebuttable presumption which provides Workers Compensation benefits to any employee who contracted COVID-19 within 14 days of working for their employer at their job site or at the direction of the employer. Attend this session for a deep dive into the Governor's Executive Order and what it means for employers.

Re-Opening Our Schools Safely (Open to All)

Presented June 10, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the workplace and schools in ways that have never been imagined. After abrupt closures during the 2019-2020 school year, charter schools are faced with many uncertainties as they plan to safely re-open for the 2020-2021 school year. This webinar, the CharterSAFE Risk Management team discussed strategies to re-open safely, exposures to consider and best practices.

How to Prevent COVID-19 Related Employee Lawsuits: Hiring Remotely, Return to Work & Staff Reductions/Layoffs (Open to All)

Presented June 17, 2020 and June 19, 2020

After abrupt closures during the 2019-20 school year, charter schools are faced with many uncertainties as they plan to re-open for the 2020-21 school year. Watch this webinar to hear from the CharterSAFE Human Resources Team on the following critical issues:

• New & Existing Employees: Remote processing of new hire paperwork and suggestions for employee orientation for the new school year.
• Return to Work Considerations: What to do if an employee is unable to return versus refusing to return to work.
• ADA/Interactive Dialogue Process: Refresher in light of COVID issues and employees who are unable to return to work.
• Staff Reductions: Review of documentation and best practice to effectively implement a layoff.

CharterSAFE Sessions from 2020 CCSA Virtual Conference (Open to All)

CharterSAFE works in partnership with our members providing access to no-cost resources that help mitigate their organizational risk including expert human resources consulting, claims and risk management support, contract review, site inspections, robust online training, and a dedicated service team.  Access CharterSAFE's free, pre-recorded webinars that were developed for the Annual CCSA Conference to learn from our team about the latest claims trends and proactive practices you can put in place to protect your school community.

PRESENTATIONS

2022 Fall Summit Materials (Members Only)

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2018 Fall Regional Workshop Materials (Members Only)

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• Bob-Coontz-CharterSAFE Safety Grant and Safety and Risk Management Standards Presentation
• Safety and Risk Management Standards Piece
• Influencing Your Outcomes: Work Flow and Case Management of Work Injuries Presentation
• Civility & Schools: Advocating a Culture of Respect by Making "Please" and "Thank You" the New Normal Presentation
• Civility Handout
• Lights, Camera, INTERACTION! Presentation
• Boundaries Handout

2017 Fall Regional Workshop Materials (Members Only)

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• CharterSAFE General Session Presentation
• Return to Work and Disability Issues Presentation
• Staff and Student Boundaries - Avoiding Sexual Abuse Cases Presentation

Other Presentations (Members Only)

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• Cyber Liability Webinar Presentation.
• Sex, Lies & Social Media
• Active Shooter/Lockdown
• Recommended Steps
• FBI Reference Guide
• Questions & Answers