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| School Safety and Security |
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School Safety and Security Services
 The Center for Terrorism Preparedness (CTP) will meet with you to customize a program that meets your school's specific safety and security needs. We take an All Hazards Approach, which means we not only focus on school violence issues, but also on day-to-day safety and security issues, including accidents and natural disasters. The CTP will assist you with the design and delivery of a program that can include any custom designed mix of the following services:
Professional Development/In Service Seminars on School Safety and Security
This half day seminar is unsurpassed in creating a level of general awareness among your entire staff. It is only after staff members adequately understand all the threats and vulnerabilities that they can work to mitigate, and effectively respond to, the various crisis situations that occur in our nation's schools on an increasingly regular basis.
National Incident Management (NIMS) Train-the-Trainer for School Administrators
This half day seminar can bring your school's administrative staff into complicate with Presidential Directive 5 -- which requires the following public school officials to understand and be able to operate under the NIMS concept: district administrators; principals; school security personnel, or resource officers, and anyone expected to take a leadership role in a crisis. This workshop will educate the participants on NIMS for schools and also allow these administrators to serve as trainers to their building level staff regarding site specific security response roles in a crisis. Previous Client's comment: "This professional development seminar was ideal to help me and my administrative staff better understanding what is required of us in an emergency and how to prepare my staff."
Conduct vulnerability and threat assessments to identify safety and security issues
Security professionals will conduct a comprehensive assessment of your district's facilities to identify and make recommendations to enhance the security of your buildings to best safeguard staff and students. Typically, physical protection systems are overlooked and rarely maintained, allowing for effortless access by prospective perpetrators. Often times these improvements are not large capital expenditures, but the resulting increase in security is paramount.
Assist in developing and conducting both table-top and full scale exercises to "test" your plans - do they actually work in a real life situation.
A plan on a shelf is worthless. When a crisis impacts your school it is the behavioral responses from school staff and officials that save the lives of children. It is only through drills and exercises that we can hope to respond to the best of our abilities when tragedies occur in our schools.
Previous Client's comment: "The After Action reports following the exercises served as a road map to help us enhance our security posture and response protocols without going through 4 more rounds of drafts. The exercises really highlighted our weaknesses and shortcomings."
Vulnerability Assessment-Covert Video
Assessment professionals will identify your likely threats and, in a span of 24 hours, will attempt to gain access to your buildings and perform some targeted "harm", or disruption. While covertly filmed and recorded, these assessments are conducted without disrupting the educational process, and yet allow your district to see and hear your security weaknesses. You will be surprised to see that it is often times the actions of school staff and officials that afford perpetrators the opportunity to penetrate your facilities security layers and provide them with multiple opportunities to do harm.
Refining or developing your safety and/or security plans.
We have authored and co-authored a variety of effective emergency operating procedures for a litany of clients across the U.S. If your plans have not been edited for three or more years, or if you have seen an increase in your student population, or if you have been fortunate enough to add a wing or new structure, your plans need to be reassessed to ensure compliance and safety for your students and staff.
Dispute Resolution -- Virtual Reality Simulator
The University Findlay is the educational leader in developing and providing training to educators in a virtual reality environment. Virtual Reality Training will allow your staff to practice making decisions to deescalate a crisis situation in the halls, classroom, bus, or any other area within your district. This cutting edge technology places your staff in a controlled environment to practice their dispute resolution skills and review and debrief on how they could best reduce the "stressors" and minimize the likelihood for a physical assault against themselves or other students. This instructional equipment then allows your staff to revisit the same or similar scenarios, and the related teaching points to apply what they learned to perfect such skills as; tone of voice, word selection, proximity, and disciplinary actions.
Make recommendations on physical security devices
On occasion, technological additions to schools are necessary to help reduce acts of violence or to aid in loss prevention. We will help conduct an unbiased assessment of your requirements, and your building's physical environments, to recommend the best layout of security equipment, allowing you to avoid the high pressure sales tactics of many vendors.
| | School Safety and Security Project Summaries | | Extensive School Safety and Security Program Development and Implementation | | SEEM is under contract to develop and implement an extensive school safety and security program for a Midwest school system. The program will be implemented in two phases: an initial Awareness Phase, and an Ongoing Training Phase. During the initial Awareness Phase, a 6 to 8-hour awareness training for emergency response and crisis management course will be conducted for all of the school system’s employees - teachers, administrators, coaches, adjuncts, school nurses, cafeteria workers, custodians, etc. A modified 2-hour version of this course will also be conducted for all students and parents. A specialized 2-hour course will be conducted for all school system bus drivers, with the express purpose of informing them of the school systems emergency response plan, and their role in it. During the On-going Training Phase, SEEM will develop and deliver a 3-day Threat Assessment Management Training Course for approximately 15 of the school systems top administrators. The goal will be to implement an ongoing Threat Assessment Management Program at each individual school building in the system. In addition, SEEM will consult with this particular school system on the development of emergency evacuation plans, school building security needs assessments, development of a Hazard Communication Program, and other related efforts. To test the effectiveness of the existing Emergency Operations Plans, a series of tabletop exercises will be developed and delivered, culminating in a large, full-scale exercise which will be implemented across the entire school system. This full-scale exercise will also be coordinated with the Community First Responder Network, including: police, fire, EMS, EMA, Public Health Agencies, and other appropriate personnel. | | School Safety and Security, All Hazards Approach CD-ROM | | SEEM/CTP developed a CD-ROM to prepare school employees for terrorist attacks and other acts of violence, as well as preparedness tools for natural disaster and accidents. The purpose of the training CD is to ensure proper planning, prevention, and response in the event of acts including bomb threats, chemical or biological incidents, tornadoes, hazardous materials spills, etc. The goal of the CD is not to frighten, but to educate school personnel on standard techniques and procedures that will help ensure the safety of staff and students if an incident does occur. The CD-ROM is broken down into 10 sections based upon job category, such as teacher, custodian, administrator, school nurse, coach, cafeteria worker, or bus driver. Video scenarios are given for each job category, showing one or more scenes involving a suspicious incident or event. The result of an improper response is then discussed, and a checklist is given of the proper procedures and preparation for such incidents. This checklist can also be printed for a reference, and a resource section presents relevant links for additional material. One major school district in North Central Ohio has purchased over 200 of these CD-ROMs. One CD is included in each of the School District’s Safety Manuals that are distributed to all employees. | | School Threat Assessment Management Training and Program Implementation | | SEEM custom designed a school district wide Threat Assessment Management Training Program that was developed and implemented over a two-year period. The program consisted of four main phases: Phase I Identifying Threats Phase II Crisis Response Phase III Crisis Recovery Phase IV Test the Plan (Tabletop Exercise) The desired outcome of the program was a Threat Management Team that would be better prepared to identify threats before an incident occurs. Approximately 25 school officials received this intensive training. Over the course of the project, the school district’s internal plans were updated and improved. The tabletop exercise resulted in an After Action Report that includes a Corrective Action Plan that discusses potential weaknesses in the plan and prescribes appropriate actions that will be taken within a specified time to address and correct the weakness and improve the overall preparedness of the district. |
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