BCL Solutions
BCL Solutions is a professional training organization dedicated to creating safe schools. BCL partners and associated trainers have been working with individual and regional school districts in the northeast United States in developing safe educational settings.

BCL has worked extensively over the past ten years to develop the capacity of school districts to plan and implement comprehensive school safety, violence prevention and intervention and crisis management programs.

As the principal planning and training provider to the Putnam Northern Westchester BOCES Crisis Management/Emergency Response Grant, we will be providing coordination services, data collection, program assessment and analysis; staff awareness and skill building; comprehensive program planning and implementation; and systematic team training. Specific training include but are not limited to: School and District Emergency Response Team (FEMA Model), School and District Safety Teams, Regional Crisis Intervention Teams, School Safety Audit and Assessment, Threat Assessment, Debriefing (individual & institutional), and School Safety trainings.

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Robert Barrette - BA American History, MS in Secondary Education
Bob Barrette was a junior high teacher for twenty-three years. He started an educational consultancy firm in 1988 and has worked with over 300 school districts over the past thirteen years.

He leads workshops in school planning, classroom management, dealing with difficult students, team building, leadership training, group dynamics and brain-compatible learning. As a partner in BCL Solutions, he has developed workshops and curricula in abduction prevention, bully prevention and systematic approaches to school safety and school assessment. Bob developed a School Emergency Team Training Manual, an abduction prevention curriculum, Teen Wise, a school safety audit procedure and various designs for mentoring and peer leadership training.

He has worked extensively with Putnam Northern Westchester, Orange/Ulster, and Broome County BOCES and component school districts. Bob served for nine years on the Onteora Central School Board of Education. Between 1987-1996, he was the principal trainer in the Wappingers Central Schools, working with both staff and student training. He worked with numerous New York school districts in establishing site-based school safety programs in compliance with New York State Project SAVE (Safe Schools Against Violence in Education) law.

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Thomas Connelly - MS, SAS, Educational Administration
Tom is a nationally recognized leader in the field of youth aggression and violence, and adolescent suicide.

He retired from the Wappingers Falls Central School District in Wappingers Falls, New York in 1996 after thirty years of working as a high school teacher, building principal, and for the last eight years, as Director of Special Counseling Services.

He has written and co-authored numerous articles, training manuals, curricula, and books in the fields of youth violence, suicide prevention and intervention, alcohol and other drug prevention, and mentoring.

He is a highly sought after keynote speaker and workshop trainer, and has worked on behalf of the US Department of Education, Twenty two state departments of education, the US Department of Indian Affairs, the Comprehensive Health Education Foundation, and over three hundred public and private schools throughout the United States and Canada.

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Brian Lane - SDA, Educational Administration, MS – Counseling
Brian is formerly the Assistant Superintendent of the Onteora Central School District. He has been an administrator on all levels for 34 of his 36 year career in public education.

He was a missionary in Africa, where he helped build Matero Boy’s Secondary School in Lusaka, Zambia. Brian served as a trainer for the Northeast Regional Training Center for Violence and Drug Free Schools and Communities.

Brian is one of the founding partners of BCL Solutions, which has worked in over one thousand schools in the northeast. He has authored the Crisis Response Team Pre-Planning Manual, a student behavioral and management software program – the TRACKER, and has collaborated on manuals for Threat Assessment, Debriefing and Bully Prevention.

Presently, Brian and BCL Solutions, are working with the Learning House writing internet courses in the area of safety for school personnel School Safety Net.

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David Levine - M Ed in Education
David, a teacher, facilitator, author, and prevention specialist, has been working with students, teachers, and parents across the United States since 1982.

David's workshops focus on the application of risk and protective factor research into the school and classroom settings, teaching social skills, and meeting the needs of all students. He is currently involved in assisting schools with the development of anti-bullying/empathy building programs.

He was the chief trainer for the United States Department of Education's Safe and Drug Free Schools Program for four years, has trained throughout the northeastern United States for the Regional Center for Violence and Drug Free Schools and Communities, for fourteen state departments of education, and has written three books and numerous articles on social skills development, peer programming, social responsibility, and tolerance education.

He recently had articles published in ASCD's Educational Leadership journal (October '97) and the National School Safety Center's News Journal (Winter '98). He completed a book entitled “Building Classroom Communities” for National Education Services in 2001.

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Laurice Nemetz - MA, ADTR
Laurice has a diverse educational background combining interests from psychology to the arts and has worked in the mental health field since 1991. An academy-level dance/movement therapist, she has come to specialize in working with high-risk children and the psychology of trauma.

Most recently Laurice worked as a senior crisis counselor and educational specialist for Project Liberty-Westchester, which was created through a grant from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency) to support those affected by the events of September 11th. While there, she authored several new materials for FEMA and presented widely in educational programs.

She has published in the International Journal for Arts Medicine (IJAM), presented her work at many conferences, and is writing a chapter on movement work for an upcoming book on alternative therapies.

Laurice is an associate with BCL Solutions.

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