COURSE DESCRIPTION:
Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents – Partnering Law Enforcement and the Local School Systems is an eight-hour course designed to educate law enforcement personnel as well as school administrators and staff on the elements that would allow for an effective response to school-based emergencies.
Schools in small, in remote areas across the country account for almost 23% of the total student population (more than 11 million students). Rural schools, law enforcement, and other emergency responders are often limited in resources, so it is imperative that all potentially affected parties collaborate on planning, preparing, communicating, responding, and recovering from a school-based incident.
Through this course, rural law enforcement officials receive information and training tools that may be used when working with their local school systems. As a result of the training, law enforcement, superintendents, principals, school resource officers and others within the school system will be better prepared to work collaboratively when a crisis occurs.
This course supports the strategic goals of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 8 – National Preparedness, the National Preparedness Goal and the Target Capabilities List in the areas of: Information Gathering and Recognition of Indicators and Warning, Critical Infrastructure Protection, On-Site Incident Management, Responder Health and Safety,
Public Safety and Security Response, Explosive Device Response Operations, Citizen Evacuation and Shelter-in-Place, Emergency Public Information and Warning, Restoration of Lifelines, Economic and Community Recovery, Intelligence and Information Sharing and Dissemination, Planning, Communications, and Community Preparedness and Participation.
PARTICIPANT CRITERIA:
The primary audience for this course is School Administrators, Emergency Medical Agencies, Emergency Medical Services, Fire Service, Law Enforcement, Public Health, Public Safety Communications, and Public Works.
PERQUISITE:
None
SPONSORSHIP:
This Course is sponsored by the Campbell County Office of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security. Delivered by the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium/University of Findlay.
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