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Definitions

Child Safety and Abduction Prevention Tips

Character Education

Put ICE in your cell phone

Blackboard Training
Blackboard Training for parents, students, teachers and staff is currently up and running.  Logon Information

Blackboard Logon for Emergency
Response PowerPoint Training

Being Prepared - Crisis Communication
NEA Crisis Communication Guide and Toolkit

Newly Published Report from the National Center for Education Statistics
Indicators of School Crime and Safety 2005

Glossary of Terms
This "Select Emergency Management-Related Terms and Definitions" document has been compiled by B. Wayne Blanchard, Ph.D., CEM, FEMA emergency management higher education project manager, for use in the Higher Education Project course, "Theory, Principles and Fundamentals of Hazards, Disasters and U.S. Emergency Management."
http://www.csc.noaa.gov/vata/glossary.html

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
http://www.cfda.gov

Education Department General Administrative Regulations (EDGAR)
http://www.ed.gov/policy/webstore
/content/search.asp

Education Publications Center
Telephone: 
877/4-EDS-PUBS or 877/433-7827
http://www.edpubs.org/webstore
/content/search.asp

Emergency Management & Recovery
School-Centered Emergency Management & Recovery Guide
Developed by Fayette County Public Schools

Emergency Planning Resources Website
http://www.ed.gov/emergencyplan

Family Educational Rights & Privacy Act
http://www.ed.gov/policy/gen/guid/fpco/
ferpa/index.html

Federal Legislation (THOMAS)
http://thomas.loc.gov

General Education Grants Information
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices
/list/ocfo/grants
/grants.html

The Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program (HSEEP) is both doctrine and policy for designing, developing, conducting and evaluating exercises.   HSEEP is a threat- and performance-based exercise program that includes a cycle, mix and range of exercise activities of varying degrees of complexity and interaction.
 http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/odp
/docs/hseep.htm

Lessons Learned from the Beslan School Incident  
The attached letter from Deputy Secretary of Education, Eugene Hitchcock to colleagues in the education community outlines lessons learned form the Beslan, Russia incident and actions schools can take to improve their crisis planning. 

Mass Casualty Event Preparedness and Response 
This site includes a number of links to other sites & provides printable materials.

National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities
The National Clearinghouse for Education Facilities provides school planning, financing, design, construction, modernization, and maintenance information.  
The Clearinghouse is funded by a grant from the U.S. Department of Education and managed by the National Institute of Building Sciences. More information is available at http://www.edfacilities.org, 1-888-552-0624, or email at ncef@nibs.org  Subscribe to EdFacilities Updates at http://www.edfacilities.org/newsletter/index.cfm

New York National Guard
Counter Narco - Terrorism

Combating Illegal Drug Use in Our Community

NIMS
The Homeland Security Presidential Directive-5, Management of Domestic Incidents, released by the President on February 28, 2004, requires all Federal departments and agencies to adopt
NIMS (National Incident Management System) and to use it in their individual domestic incident management and emergency prevention/mitigation, preparedness, response, and recovery programs.

peration SAFEGUARD
ISSUED BY NYS Office of Homeland Security
Indicators of potential terrorist planning or activities.


SPSG Safety Group
Newsletter highlights statistics and tips for ensuring the safety of all of your students and staff.


National Association of School Psychologists 

Includes resources and links regarding natural disasters, crisis response, suicide, trauma, violence prevention and war/terrorism.

NYS Homeland Security System for Schools
http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/deputy
/Documents/
alerts/homelandsecurityguidance.PDF

No Child Left Behind
http://nclb.gov

Office of Safety and Drug Free Schools
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices
/list/osdfs/news.html

OMB Circulars
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars
/index.html

Online Support for Bomb Threat Response Planning Tool
http://www.threatplan.org/

Practical Information on Crisis Planning 
A Guide for Schools & Communities

Protection of Human Subjects in Research
http://www.ed.gov/about/offices/list/
ocfo/humanssub.html

Recovery  Article:  Does Early Psychological Intervention
 
Promote Recovery From Post Traumatic Stress?

Authors:  Richard J. McNally, Richard A. Bryant, Anke Ehlers

Response Training Exercises and Drills
Training Exercises & Practices Drills for a variety of crisis situations to use with faculty and staff

Risk Management Series Primer to Design Safe School Projects in Case of Terrorist Attacks

Schools & Role in Bioterrorism
Biosecurity & Bioterrorism:  Biodefense Strategy Practice and Science

Schools & Terriorism: School Terrorism Preparedness

Technology Security Tools Available
The Consortium for School Network has created the Cyber Security for the Digital District leadership initiative.  The initiative has created a set of
web-accessible tools.

Utica National Insurance Group
Safety, Risk Management and Emergency Management

What Should I Know About Department of Education Grants?
http://www.ed.gov/fund/grant/about/
knowabtgrants/index/html

Bullying Resources

Cyberbullying
What is it? How Can you Stop It?  Learn More

Cyberbullying
Mobilizing educators, parents, students, and others to combat online social cruelty
Cyberbullying is emerging as one of the more challenging issues facing educators and parents as young people embrace the Internet & other mobile communication technologies.

Cyberbullying.org

http://stopbullyingnow.hrsa.gov
/index.asp

http://www.awesomelibrary.org/Office
/Counselor/Conflict_
Prevention_and_Mediation/Bullying.html

http://members.aol.com/jpc57/bw.html

http://www.colorado.edu/cspv
/safeschools/bullying/overview.html

http://www.bullyonline.org/
workbully/bully.htm

http://www.4j.lane.edu/ess/ebs/
harassment/index.html

For Administrators

http://www.principals.org/schoolimprove
/safeorderlysch.cfm#harr

General Violence Prevention Resources

http://www.colorado.edu/
cspv/blueprints/

http://www.education.ucsb.edu/
school-psychology/School-Violence/

 

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