- 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?
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