Welcome to the CEA School Safety Initiative
Tragic school shootings in which multiple students or faculty are killed or injured in a single event, as well as terrorist threats, have heightened the need for crisis and emergency management. County Executives must be prepared for a wide range of school crisis and emergency situations that were unthinkable only a decade ago.
The School Safety Initiative and Review is a unique service of the CEA Homeland Security Resource Center, enabling County Executives to be the catalyst and capacity builder for school safety among governing bodies and private sector interests in the community. The CEA team serves as a trusted agent, valued for its independent perspective to school safety concerns. This trusted, objective third party perspective can determine if all agencies and stakeholders are effectively communicating and synchronizing with each other. The review also serves as a blueprint for progress.
What Your County Can Do
The effectiveness of a school safety plan is measured in the precious lives of the children, faculty and administrators left unharmed following an incident. The manner in which first responders and service providers manage a crisis, or fail to do so, can have a lasting impact on the physical and emotional recovery of the affected community.
Creating safe school environments is a joint responsibility requiring the leadership of the County Executive. The County Executive becomes the catalyst for instituting a safe school environment.
The County Executive School Safety Initiative is specifically oriented for the county and municipal leaders by offering the following consultative solutions:
- Political and administrative obstacles to school safety and crisis planning
- Developing a framework for effective crisis response by addressing community barriers and solutions to multi-disciplinary team planning
- Managing crisis – the incident command system
- Lessons learned from school violence incidents
- Impact of terrorism on school safety and crisis preparedness planning
- School district threat and risk assessments
- Security awareness training for faculty
- Tabletop drills on pandemics and terrorism
- Recognizing and managing gang activity
- School security and police staffing models and organizational review
- Police-school-community capacity building for preventive action and crisis management
- Media management and communications plans