This activity is designed to enhance your understanding of event content through hands-on learning. You will be asked to perform a series of tasks and then reflect on your experience.

Objective

To conduct an inventory of your school's crisis prevention activities and determine what additional activities are needed.

Overview

While schools need to be prepared for a crisis, they also need to try to prevent crises from occurring. While you have developed a school prevention plan, you may not have included specific elements designed to prevent crises. This activity is designed to help MSCs determine the types of prevention programs and approaches that best suit their school, specifically in the area of crisis response.

Part 1: Creating Your Inventory

For the first part of this activity, you will compile a preliminary list of prevention activities taking place at your school.

Step 1
Print Elements of a Crisis Prevention Plan.

Step 2
Using that list as a guide, complete the Prevention Activities Worksheet, filling in the prevention activities that your school is already engaged in under each category. You may have done a lot of this work in the previous online event "Identifying Prevention Priorities and Strategies for Success." If so, focus on categories that you believe are missing in your school's prevention response that could be aimed at preventing crises, such as threat assessment. Make note of the specific characteristics of your school and student population that may lend themselves to interventions, such as having Muslim students or students with parents in the military.

Part 2: Planning a Prevention Response

Step 3
Brainstorm ideas for measures needed under prevention activities specifically directed at preventing a crisis.

Step 4
Meet with your school safety committee or crisis response team (whichever is appropriate) and ask members for their input.

Step 5
Choose one idea and make plans to put it in place, establishing a timeline with specific tasks.

Please respond to the discussion questions that appear at the end of Day 3.