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Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools
As schools and communities across the U.S. prepare and develop plans for responding to potential emergency situations, U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige has unveiled this new web resource to help. It is designed to be a one-stop shop that provides school leaders with information they need to plan for any emergency, including natural disasters, violent incidents and terrorist acts. The site will be regularly updated. Secretary Paige and Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge unveiled this new resource at Blair High School in Montgomery County, Maryland, which has a model emergency plan in place. For more information about what families and communities can do to be ready for an emergency, please visit www.ready.gov.
Crisis Planning Resources
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Letter from the Deputy Secretary about a Homeland Security/FBI bulletin on the terrorist attack in Beslan, Russia.
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FY 2004 awards for the Emergency Response and Crisis Management Discretionary Grant Program
- Practical Information on Crisis Planning Brochure
This companion brochure to the full Crisis Planning Guide provides general information and guidelines on how to be prepared for a crisis.
![[downloadable files]](/peth04/20041018035521im_/http://ed.gov/images/ed_gl_download.gif) PDF (278K) | Word (31K) August 2004
Bomb Threat Assessment Guide
The Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools, along with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, has released a new interactive CD-ROM on responding to bomb threats. The CD-ROM, "Bomb Threat Response: An Interactive Planning Tool for Schools," is an interactive tool for schools that includes staff training presentations and implementation resources. OSDFS will be disseminating a copy of the guide to every school district in the country over the next few weeks. The ATF will also distribute the CD-ROM to State and local law enforcement and public safety agencies. In addition to the CD-ROM, a new website has been established to provide online support to the CD-ROM and additional information.
October 2003
Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities
The U.S. Department of Education has developed a guide to provide schools and communities with basic guidelines and useful ideas on how to develop emergency response and crisis management plans. Hard copies of the Guide are now available and can be ordered from ED Pubs.
PDF (1.6M) May 2003
School Emergency Response and Crisis Management Plan Discretionary Grant Program
The list of successful 2003 awardees is organized by state. For questions, please contact Sara Strizzi at sara.strizzi@ed.gov.
MS WORD (125K)
Campus Public Safety: Weapons of Mass Destruction Terrorism Protective Measures
The Office for Domestic Preparedness, U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has published a series of suggestions to guide and inform public safety planning efforts to prevent, deter or effectively respond to a weapons of mass destruction terrorist attack on college campuses.
April 2003
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Education Collaborate to Help Schools Prepare for Possible Terrorism
This website provides state and local education, health, emergency management, law enforcement and homeland security agencies with updated information on biological, chemical, and radiological threats; answers questions about school preparedness and response; and describes the roles of partnering agencies in the case of a terrorist threat.
Original airdate: May 16, 2002
The 3 R's to Dealing with Trauma in Schools: Readiness, Response and Recovery
This teleconference, sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education and the Harvard School Public Health, explores issues related to trauma, its impact on children, and implications for schools and school personnel.
Original airdate: April 23, 2002
U.S. Secretary of Education Rod Paige's letter to Chief State School Officers regarding Department of Education activities in response to September 11th.
National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities - Disaster Preparedness for Schools
This clearinghouse provides a list of links, books, and articles on building or retrofitting schools to withstand natural disasters and terrorism, developing emergency preparedness plans, and using school buildings to shelter community members during emergencies.
The Safe School Initiative - A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates and Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School attacks in the United States
The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Secret Service collaborated to produce two reports that outline a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools as well as ideas for creating safe school climates. School personnel, law enforcement officials, and others intend these guides for use with protective responsibilities in our Nation's schools.
Project SERV: School Emergency Response to Violence
Project SERV provides education-related services to school districts where the learning environment has been disrupted due to a violent or traumatic crisis. Funds may be used to assist schools facing an undue financial hardship in providing extraordinary services due to an event that has had a traumatic affect on the learning environment.
- International Meeting on Helping Schools Prepare for and Respond to Terrorist Attacks, February 13-14, 2002
Proceedings of an international meeting hosted by the U.S. Department of Education, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.S. State Department focusing on helping schools plan and respond to terrorist attacks.
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Examples of Promising Practices in School Emergency Response
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