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National School Safety and SecurityServices provides school emergency planning evaluations to help schools identify strengths and areas to build upon for creating school emergency plans that not only look good on paper, but stand a better chance of working effectively in a real emergency. Most school leaders know their schools have plans. They just don't know whether their plans have appropriate or questionable content, if staff have adequately been trained for emergency preparedness, what type of testing and exercising of plans can be done in a reasonable amount of time, and how to improve the chances of what is on paper working in a real emergency.
One of our currently most popular services, the school emergency planning/preparedness consultation typically involves our experienced team conducting off-site review of policies, procedures, emergency/crisis guidelines, and related documents to help answer these questions based upon our experience of over 25 years in the school safety field. On-site work typically includes individual and focus group interviews with district and building level staff, and key community partners, as well as select visits to district schools and support facilities as appropriate.
Expected focal areas may include:
- Evaluation of district and building level emergency preparedness plans
- Examination of district and building level school crisis teams
- Review of emergency preparedness professional development training for faculty and staff
- Reasonable drills and exercises conducted to date and planned for the future
- Liaison with community public safety and emergency management agencies
- Communications issues with parents, the media, staff, students, and the broader school community
- Associated school security/police operations issues
and related topics.
A final report is submitted with observations of positive existing emergency preparedness elements in place and recommendations for building upon current emergency planning efforts.
Emergency planning/preparedness evaluation consultation visits can be combined with professional development training on school emergency planning, tabletop exercises, and related services
For more information on these services, contact Ken Trump.