Ohio County public school teachers are working towards getting prepared for emergencies at school. Teachers met for a two day training on crisis management to discuss preparations for natural disasters, such as tornadoes and floods, as well as possible attacks from school shooters.
Mike Webber, adjunct instructor for the School of Environmental and Emergency Management Center for Terrorism Preparedness with the University of Findlay is training the teachers in preparedness:
“This is kind of the driver to hopefully help them proceed in their planning and in building a proper response plan.”
The training is broken up into two eight-hour sessions on “Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents – Partnering Rural Law Enforcement and the Local School Systems,” at Wheeling Park High School. Funding for the training sessions is provided by the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium. Its purpose is to provide training to rural communities.
In regards to emergency preparedness and local schools, Webber had this to say:
“We have found most schools have a written school emergency plan already in place, but they’ve never taken those second steps to enact the plan and to ensure its success.”
If you have children who attend a local school, be sure that you’ve discussed your emergency plan with them, and that they have their own survival kit.
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