Keeping Our Children Safe
By Nora L Howley, Manager of Programs, NEA Health Information Network
Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Moore, Oklahoma, and the surrounding area.
We mourn the tragic loss of lives and homes and livelihoods, even as we wonder at the acts of heroism by educators and members of the community who worked to protect and rescue hundreds of students and neighbors.
The tragedy in Oklahoma reminds us that bad things can happen. Keeping our children safe in school is all of our responsibility. Everyone in a school community needs to be at the table in planning since there is a role for everyone in a crisis.
Because no two events will ever be the same, it is essential for school communities to create an emergency preparedness plan that has the flexibility to meet different needs. Certainly, a plan should address steps to prevent crises, but prevention is not enough. Comprehensive emergency preparedness plans incorporate prevention, response, and recovery. In other words, the plan should represent a process that carries a community from anticipating possible crises to managing them.
Emergency preparedness plans recognize that:
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Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Moore, Oklahoma, and the surrounding area.We mourn the tragic loss of lives and homes and livelihoods, even as we wonder at the acts of heroism by educators and members of the community who worked to protect and rescue hundreds of students and neighbors.
The tragedy in Oklahoma reminds us that bad things can happen. Keeping our children safe in school is all of our responsibility. Everyone in a school community needs to be at the table in planning since there is a role for everyone in a crisis.
Because no two events will ever be the same, it is essential for school communities to create an emergency preparedness plan that has the flexibility to meet different needs. Certainly, a plan should address steps to prevent crises, but prevention is not enough. Comprehensive emergency preparedness plans incorporate prevention, response, and recovery. In other words, the plan should represent a process that carries a community from anticipating possible crises to managing them.
Emergency preparedness plans recognize that:
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