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  Evaluating your plan
 
 
  Here is a checklist for evaluating your plan. Does it:
  • Identify safety policies, research-based violence prevention programs and intervention procedures?

  • Include a mechanism for police to notify the school of critical incidents, such as the death of a school-aged child, the death of a school employee or a significant event that in the opinion of police may impact children and school staff?

  • Include threat assessment procedures and guidelines?

  • Put systems in place for school staff to be notified of troubled students who may pose a threat to safety?

  • Identify ways students, parents, staff and community can report threats and suspicious incidents?

  • Outline notification procedures, including assigning responsibility for calls to families?

  • Determine procedures for canceling school, early dismissal, using the school as a shelter for lockdowns, evacuations and relocation?

  • Include a way to verify factual information about the crisis and share it with staff and parents?

  • Provide steps for aiding victims and “normalizing” the school environment in the aftermath of a crisis?

  • Include ongoing collaboration and input from public safety and other response partners?

  • Provide MOU with response partners?

  • Incorporate the structure and tenets of National Incident Management System (NIMS)/ICS?

Click here for elements of a district-level plan.

Click here for elements of a school-level plan.
 
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