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School Emergency Management: An Overview For State Coordinators

School Emergency Management: An Overview For State Coordinators. Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS) Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) U.S. Department of Education (ED). What is a School Emergency Management Plan?. A School Emergency Management plan:

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School Emergency Management: An Overview For State Coordinators

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  1. School Emergency Management: An Overview For State Coordinators Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS) Office of Elementary and Secondary Education (OESE) U.S. Department of Education (ED)

  2. What is a School Emergency Management Plan? A School Emergency Management plan: • Is the first step to securing our schools and protecting the school community; • Addresses a wide range of events (natural, man-made); and • Addresses events that occur both in and outside of the school and school day

  3. Comprehensive School Emergency Management Plan • Uses an all-hazards approach • Developed with community partners • Based on vulnerability assessment and tailored to the individual district, school, and campus • Practiced consistently, reviewed, revised • Framed by the four phases

  4. The Four Phases of SchoolEmergency Management

  5. What is the Prevention-Mitigation Phase? Prevention is the action schools and districts take to decrease the likelihood that an event or crisis will occur Mitigation actions are steps that eliminate or reduce the loss of life or property damage for events that cannot be prevented (e.g., natural disasters) Many hazards have both components

  6. What is the Preparedness Phase? The Preparedness phase is designed to facilitate a rapid, coordinated and effective response The school community is strengthened by coordinating with community partners on: • Developing an emergency plan, policies and protocols • Adopting the National Incident Management System (NIMS) and the Incident Command System (ICS) • Training, exercising, and revising the plan

  7. What is the Response Phase? • When emergency management plans are activated to effectively contain and resolve an emergency • Response actives • Activate the plan and the incident command system (ICS) • Activate the communication plans • Deploy resources • Account for students and staff and activate the family reunification

  8. Recovery Phase • Designed to assist students, staff, and their families in the healing process and to restore operations in schools • Has four primary components: • Physical/structural recovery • Business/fiscal recovery • Academic recovery • Psychological/emotional recovery

  9. Drills and Exercises • Types: • Evacuation drills • Lockdown drills • Shelter-in-Place • Include community partners • Inform plan revisions and new efforts to work as a team

  10. Action Steps: What You Can Do Now • Identify and reach out to your State Education Agency’s Emergency Manager • Include them in planning meetings • Work with them to ensure all of the local liaisons are working with the local school district’s emergency manager 10

  11. National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments 11 • Funded by the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Healthy Students and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Mental Health Promotion Branch of SAMHSA • Provides training and support to states, including the 11 grantees funded under the Safe and Supportive Schools Program, and their participating Local Education Agencies (districts)

  12. National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments • Provides information and technical assistance to community colleges, institutions of higher education, schools, districts, communities, states and other federal grantee programs regarding the improvement of conditions for learning. • Goal is to improve conditions for learning in a variety of settings, through measurement and program implementation, so that all students have the opportunity to realize academic success in safe and supportive learning environments.

  13. Safe and Supportive Schools TA Center http://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov 13

  14. The REMS TA Center http://rems.ed.gov The REMS TA Center: Supports schools, school districts, and institutions of higher education Supports the development and implementation of comprehensive all-hazards emergency management plans

  15. The REMS TA Center http://rems.ed.gov The REMS TA Center: Provides information about school emergency management (publications, webinars, training, resource repository) Helps ED coordinate technical assistance meetings and share school emergency management information Responds to direct requests for technical assistance and training on school emergency management

  16. Additional Resources ED’s Emergency Planning (the Office of Safe and Healthy Students) http://www2.ed.gov/admins/lead/safety/emergencyplan/index.html The American Clearinghouse on Educational Facilities (ACEF) http://www.acefacilities.org/

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