The plan should identify how to:
- Provide support and counseling for students and staff to facilitate individual and collective grieving.
- Decide whether to suspend regular instruction to discuss the disaster.
- Line up extra substitute teachers to be on call.
- Provide additional resources to teachers who will be dealing with troubled students in need of extra attention.
- Plan for the first day back at school. Click here for information.
- Deal with funerals or memorial services. Click here for more.
- Create a timely means for informing parents and the community of new information.
- Consider how anniversaries of a disaster may provide an opportunity for planning a special remembrance. Click here for more.
- Click here for more information about the ongoing process of recovery.