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Helping youth, families, schools, and communities prevent and rebuild after tragedy
Live Well, Laugh Often, Love Much
Helping youth, families, schools, and communities prevent and rebuild after tragedy
Trainings now include conducting virtual suicide risk assessments and student mental health and SEL upon returning to school after COVID19! Please email Dr. Terri at erbacherconsulting.com if you are interested in a training. We are booking up!
Please know our thoughts are with all of our clients during this time.
Please see below for a FREE COVID-19 Mental Health Toolkit for Returning to School!
Whether you are interviewing a child's parent prior to therapy or for a psycho-educational evaluation, it is integral to understand the impact of COVID-19 on a child and family. These tools are great for schools AND private practice!
My amazing grad students at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine (PCOM) worked with me to create this detailed mental health toolkit as we return to school after months with COVID-19. SO MANY resources and it is FREE domain, so use it however will help you and your schools best! Be sure to check out the virtual suicide risk assessment portion written by yours truly!
COVID19 Mental Health Toolkit for Returning to School (pdf)
DownloadTerri A. Erbacher, Ph.D.
Terri A. Erbacher, Ph.D. is a Certified School Psychologist and Licensed Psychologist in Pennsylvania. She has practiced as a School Psychologist since 1999 and joined the School Psychology faculty at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine in 2007. She began her private practice in 2014 to be able to better serve schools and communities nationally.
Dr. Terri has vast experience as an author, distinguished speaker, consultant, and guest expert in the media, including NPR. Dr. Erbacher's expertise focuses on crisis management, trauma and PTSD, school mental health, threat assessment in schools, suicide prevention and risk assessment, and complicated grief/loss. She has written extensively on these topics in book chapters, journal articles, and newsletters, and is a health contributor for Philly.com. She is the lead author of the important and innovative text Suicide in Schools released in 2015.
Amongst many board roles, Dr. Terri is past President of the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, is past Chair of the Delaware County Suicide Prevention Task Force, and served on the Executive Committee of the Pennsylvania Youth Suicide Prevention Initiative. She currently serves as the Crisis Committee Chairperson for the Association of School Psychologists of Pennsylvania and has been active in the enactment of legislation including Act 71 and Act 18 in Pennsylvania. Dr. Erbacher is currently serving on the Pennsylvania Commission for Crime and Delinquency’s School Safety and Security Committee workgroups to develop both Act 18’s Trauma-Informed Care Model Approach Plan as well as Threat Assessment guidelines.
Her passion for helping children in crisis and training schools and mental health professionals has led to her receiving multiple awards for her service to the community including those from the Survivors of Suicide, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and the Delaware County Intermediate Unit. Dr. Erbacher has received a commendation for her service from the Delaware County Council and has previoulsy been named Pennsylvania's School Psychologist of the Year.
A New England native, Dr. Erbacher now resides in Delaware County with her wonderful daughter.
Dr. Erbacher received both her master's and doctoral degrees in School Psychology from Temple University. She has earned a Grief and Loss Specialization Certificate from Widener University and a School Suicide Prevention Specialist Certificate from the American Association of Suicidology. She is a trainer for NASP's PREPaRE Model of crisis response as well as for the Comprehensive School Threat Assessment Guidelines (CSTAG).
Our misson is to help youth, families, schools, and communities prevent and rebuild after tragedy. When I lost my father to suicide, I told myself that I could not let his death be in vain and that led to a career shift for me. This has been an amazing journey that I could not have done without all who have supported me along the way! We believe it takes a village and together...we can save lives.
You are not alone: We promise to share this journey with you every step of the way.
Here is an article on Youth Suicide Risk during COVID19: How Parents can Help
Our hearts go out to our community after the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Ahmed Aubry along with those before them. During this time, we take the opportunity to mourn, pause and reflect with hope for a better future. As we begin the conversation, see the video on racial injustice, COVID19, and healing.
We offer trainings in the following areas:
We offer trainings in the following areas:
We provide schools and school districts nationally with consultation in all areas of school safety, mental health, trauma, and crisis management.
We assist schools and districts in updating and revising all policies and procedures related to school safety, school mental health, and school crisis response.
If you use technology to flag con
We provide schools and school districts nationally with consultation in all areas of school safety, mental health, trauma, and crisis management.
We assist schools and districts in updating and revising all policies and procedures related to school safety, school mental health, and school crisis response.
If you use technology to flag concerning student searches, we can assist in developing protocol related to staff response upon being alerted of concerns.
We consult on conducting trauma-informed active shooter drills and can serve as a peer reviewer.
We are also available to consult in the aftermath of school crises.
We conduct trauma evaluations for juvenile court as well as independent trauma evaluations to determine the potential impact of a trauma or adverse childhood experience on a child oand make recommendations based upon need.
COMING SOON: Our team will be available to conduct independent comprehensive psycho-educational evaluations in Pennsy
We conduct trauma evaluations for juvenile court as well as independent trauma evaluations to determine the potential impact of a trauma or adverse childhood experience on a child oand make recommendations based upon need.
COMING SOON: Our team will be available to conduct independent comprehensive psycho-educational evaluations in Pennsylvania to determine special education eligibility and the need for specially designed instruction.
Please note that assessments are currently available in Pennsylvania only.
We do not currently offer therapeutic services. Please contact your insurance company if you are in need of counseling.
Hello! While our service area currently serves Eastern Pennsylvania and surrounding regions, we offer consultation by phone and email and have provided trainings and webinars online with much success and positive participant feedback! We tailor all services to your individual needs. Please email us for rates!
Suicide in Schools: A Practitioner's Guide to Multi-Level Prevention, Assessment, Intervention and Postvention
by Drs. Terri A. Erbacher, Jonathan B. Singer, and Scott Poland
As we don't believe in reinventing the wheel, we make all documents we've created freely accessible.
These are all from our text Suicide in Schools (2015). See above for a link to purchase a copy.
Download our FREE Threat Assessment for Schools Toolkit HERE:
School-Based Threat Assessement Toolkit (Erbacher & Brindle, 2018) (pdf)
DownloadIf you or someone you know needs immediate help, please use the following resources:
*Call 9-1-1 for Emergencies
*National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
*National Suicide Prevention Lifeline CHAT: http://chat.suicidepreventionlifeline.org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.aspx
*National Crisis TEXT Line: Text START to 741-741
*Trevor Project for LGBTQ youth: Text START to 678-678
*Youthline(https://oregonyouthline.org/) and Teenline (https://teenlineonline.org/) provide youth-staffed crisis services over text, email, phone, and chat.
Please contact us via email with questions or to schedule training, assessment, or consultation. We strive to return all emails quickly.
Please note that we do not currently offer counseling services.
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erbacherconsulting@gmail.com Dr. Erbacher's CV is available upon request.
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