SUBJECT: Emergency Response (Crisis Intervention)
EFFECTIVE: March 4, 2002
REVISED: August 19, 2013
PURPOSE: To provide for the development, maintenance, and training of school and district emergency response (crisis intervention) teams.
REGULATION:
The district, and each school within the district, will provide for the development and training of district and school crisis intervention teams.
Specifically,
1. The district will have a crisis intervention team.
2. Each school will have a crisis intervention team.
3. The district and each school must develop protocols, communication strategies, training programs, workshops, and procedures to follow in the event of a crisis.
4. Protocols should be developed in respect to a death in school, a death outside school, a death of a relative of staff or student, an attempted suicide or parasuicide, and accident in school, a bus accident, natural or man-made disasters, threats to security, and any other crisis, in general.
5. Community and external resources to be invoked in a crisis should be identified, catalogued, and involved in planning for emergency response.