Jefferson County Public Schools crisis teams are working to help students in the aftermath of back-to-back traumatic events. On Wednesday, a drive-by shooting claimed the life of 16-year-old Tyree Smith at a JCPS bus stop and injured two other students. The next day on Thursday, a teenage intruder at Jeffersontown High School led to a school lockdown that left students and parents shaken. "The crisis team really steps in when the need for crisis support is more than what the school level team can handle on their own when they need some additional intervention from folks that can come in and support the work that they're doing with their students," Michelle Sircy said. Sircy has been with JCPS for eight years and now heads the district's crisis response teams. The teams have been deployed to three schools this week. On Wednesday, they went to Eastern High School and nearby Crosby Middle School after a drive-by shooting at a JCPS bus stop that killed Eastern student Tyree Smith. Authorities say about 30 students were at the bus stop when the shots rang out."We're giving them coping skills, we're giving them a safe space to process information for an event that has occurred," Sircy said. "Trying to help them with individual skills that they can incorporate into their lives to handle grief and trauma and then we're identifying students that might need more long-term therapeutic intervention."The crisis response team is 300 members strong. All are full-time JCPS staff with specialized training to provide counseling services using a tiered system inside and outside the classroom. "Everyone gets that social-emotional counseling support, tier-one pushing into the classroom," Sircy said. "We deliver services where they're needed so sometimes that is even in a hospital, we can deliver it in bus stops, we can deliver it within a school, in a classroom, in the cafeteria so our responders are trained to deliver services in a variety of settings and wherever we're needed, that's where we go."Tier two involves group counseling while tier three is geared towards individual counseling sessions. "We do stay at an event for as long as we're needed so depending on the situation, we can stay an event for half a day and we have stayed at a school for as long as a week before just to provide more intensive wrap around counseling support services to students that need that," Sircy said. Sircy acknowledged the two back-to-back incidents may make the need greater now for the JCPS family as a whole, adding it is important students' families be there for them during the process. "The biggest thing a child's family can do is just listen to them," Sircy said. "Be there for them."While counselors were not at Eastern High School Friday, JCPS spokeswoman Renne Murphy said they were ready to go if needed.