This track will include multiple workshops addressing collaboration between education and community partners in law enforcement, emergency services, and mental health for effective measures of achieving a safe school culture and climate. Multiple workshops presented on different topics to address today’s recommended best practices in school safety will be presented throughout the day in this track.
Target Audience:
Anyone in education, law enforcement, or the mental health profession who deal with matters related to a safe and healthy school culture and climate, or any matters affecting the safety or well-being of students.
Audience Max: N/A
Time: Workshops will run throughout the day from 8:30 AM to 4:00 PM. Please see the below schedule for a list of times and description of the workshops.
Location: Sheraton Bay Tower Main Ballroom B
Schedule:
8:30 AM to 10:00 AM: THE NEVADA RURAL SCHOOL DISTRICT SCHOOL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROJECT
Presenter: This session will be moderated by Jeff Kaye, President of School Safety Operations. Multiple people involved in this project will present during this workshop.
Synopsis: This workshop is not just for attendees from Nevada. A standardized school emergency management planning and training program for the 15 rural Nevada school districts was begun in 2015 in response to some excellent school safety laws passed at the state level. This program was started and and funded by the Nevada Risk Management Pool to address the needs of the 15 school districts that did not have their own designated Emergency Managers in order to ensure compliance with all state and federal laws addressing school safety. This is a visionary project that brings trained professionals to the school districts to assist them with their emergency response planning and training. This takes the onus off of the Superintendent and Principals in areas of responsibility related to writing Emergency Operations Plans and providing staff training in emergency response. This program also limits potential civil liabilities in areas related to non-compliance with statutory regulations related to school safety.
The Nevada project can be used as a model template in any U.S. state or Canadian province, since we all have the same basic laws and codes regulating school safety. Standardized emergency management planning overseen by trained professionals is an effective method of ensuring legal compliance and maximizing safe school culture and compliance. Funding of these programs in education is always problematic, so this will also be a topic of discussion during this presentation. Of note here is the Nevada Risk Management Pool (POOL PACT) will be receiving the Institute’s 2019 Gatekeeper School Safety Sponsorship Award during this year’s general session based on their sustained efforts in this project.
10:00 AM to 10:30 AM: Break
10:30 AM to Noon: Active Assailant Table Top Exercise
Presenters: Jeff Kaye and ISSI Staff
Synopsis: This workshop will cover what to do during the timeframe covering the inception of an incident until emergency responders arrive, what to do when they get there, and what to do after they are gone. Our school staff and law enforcement personnel who are at ground zero in a school when an incident of violence occurs are considered “Immediate Responders.” This session is geared toward what they can do to maximize school safety if a violent incident occurs, since they are already there when immediate action is necessary.
The session will begin with a discussion of the different responses related to Lockdown, lock out, and the “Alternative Methods” that might be needed in the worst case scenario of an Active Assailant attack at a school. Attendees will then break into small groups to work through multi-phased scenarios they will be provided. No live weapons, simulated weapons, violent videos, fear-based training, or any type of force-on-force tactics will be used in this workshop. No prior emergency response training or skills will be needed as a pre-requisite for attendees. The only thing we ask you to bring are your critical thinking skills, as they will be your best weapons should an actual incident ever occur at your school. Attendees will leave with takeaways they can immediately implement in their school emergency management planning and training programs, and will have a good time working through the exercises.
Noon to 1:00: Hosted Lunch
1:00 to 2:00: Education Community Partners and The School Resource Officer;
Presenter: Blair Gillman, Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Synopsis:
This workshop discusses how engaging the community can benefit schools, school districts, curriculum opportunities, student safety, and relationships with law enforcement. There are no geographical boundaries in education safety, and that includes the law enforcement agencies what work with our schools. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is a well-respected agency in the International Law Enforcement community. The “Mounties” work with schools throughout the country of Canada, some in urban areas and some in very remote areas. They are a well-trained agency and have excellent and innovative school safety programs in place. We learn from each other, so it is important go get a broad understanding of how safe school culture and climate programs are conducted Internationally. Blair Gillman will discuss the RCMP and how they are getting things done with involvement of community partners in all aspects involved in safe school culture and climate.
During Blair’s first five months working with schools in his area, he worked through five incidents of credible threats to schools. He’ll discuss these incidents, what they did that worked, and and what his vision of involving community partners in school safety is. Where his schools were in terms of a baseline of preparedness when he got there, where they are now, and where they are going in the future will be aspects of Blair’s presentation. This will include successful grant funding programs he has been involved in. If it works in Canada, it works in the U.S., and vice versa. This is why we are an International training institute. School districts, Superintendents, Principals, school staff, and SRO's have an opportunity to bring partnerships into the schools that will supplement regular curriculum and opportunities while keeping the kids safe. Integration of the SRO into the school climate is an important aspect of safety.
2:00 PM to 2:15 PM: Break
2:15 PM to 4:00 PM: Tactical Immediate Care First Aid For Educators, “Stop The Bleed”
Presenter: Michael Johnson, Z-Medica, assisted by the ISSI Staff
Emergency room doctors have what they call the “Golden Hour.” This is the timeframe where they have an excellent chance of saving a life if they can a person with a traumatic injury into an operating room while they are still alive. Paramedics have what they call the “Golden Fifteen Minutes.” This is the timeframe where they have an excellent chance of keeping a victim of a traumatic incident alive if they can get them stabilized, loaded into the ambulance, and on their way to the emergency room within fifteen minutes of their arrival on scene. School staff are our “Immediate Responders,” as they are on scene when a bad thing happens. They work in a timeframe we call the “Manic Minutes.” This is the timeframe they will be alone with the victim of a traumatic injury while waiting for paramedics to arrive. The actions taken during these manic minutes will directly impact the timeframes needed by the paramedics and doctors to keep a victim alive.
A traumatic injury causing arterial bleeding at a school can be caused by accidental or intentional acts, but we have lost kids to post-incident arterial bleeding injuries at schools in the past. Stop-The-Bleed training and equipping schools with tourniquets and would packing material, and training staff in their use, will save lives if a bad thing happens at a school. The After Action Reports from the October 2018 Las Vegas Massacre recommends Stop-The-Bleed medical supplies are made available at every large gathering in order to prepare for a Mass Casualty Incident (MCI). Every school is considered a large gathering on every school day, so it is important to store the proper equipment and train school staff in these simple procedures in order to work through the Manic Minutes if a bad thing happens at a school.
This is a hands-on workshop where attendees will be shown how to properly use a tourniquet and pack a wound in order to stop bleeding while waiting for paramedics to arrive on scene should there be a traumatic injury. Training supplies will be provided and attendees will practice on wound training simulators. No prior first aid or medical experience is necessary, as this presentation is designed to teach the lay person how to take life-saving actions if they are needed. These skills can be used anytime and anywhere.
The hands-on portion of this class is limited to twenty attendees, so we ask interested persons to sign up for this during the morning registration. All attendees are welcome to observe the training, and instructors will be available after the presentation is over to answer any questions attendees might have about how this training can be implemented into their school emergency management and safety programs. The only difference between action and inaction during the Manic Minutes is our level of training and preparedness, pre-incident.
