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Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools Technical Assistance Center (REMS), 2025
When designing or updating a K-12 emergency operations plan (EOP), gun violence ranks among the top human-caused threats to be accounted for, regardless of perceived risk. Gun violence incidents have now impacted every school demographic in the United States, and no school is immune to the possibility. Providing a safe, supportive, and welcoming…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, School Safety, Violence, Weapons
Selingo, Jeffrey – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
This article describes how colleges are seeking the best ways to respond to dangerous incidents like the shootings that occurred at Virginia Tech, and how best to alert people on their campuses to various threats to public safety and emergencies.
Descriptors: Violence, First Aid, School Safety, Emergency Programs
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Jacobs, Anne K.; Vernberg, Eric; Lee, Stephanie J. – Prevention Researcher, 2008
Adolescents possess numerous strengths and vulnerabilities based on their unique stage of development. When youth experience a disaster, whether natural or human-caused, there are certain considerations to be taken into account when providing them with support. This article describes common adolescent reactions to the impact phase of disasters as…
Descriptors: First Aid, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Adolescents, Therapy