FREE School Crisis Management Training - DHS approved

 

The Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium (RDPC), has developed a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) federally approved one-day training course titled, “Crisis Management for School-Based Incidents – Partnering Rural Law Enforcement and the Local School Systems.”

This course is FREE to rural communities (population less than 50,000) throughout Michigan. The course is designed specifically for rural K-12 school systems and local emergency responders.

The course (AWR 148) is an 8-hour awareness level course designed to educate school administrators and staff as well as rural law enforcement personnel and other emergency responders on the critical elements that would allow for an effective response to school-based incidents. Rural schools, law enforcement and other emergency responders are often limited in resources, so it is imperative that all potentially affected parties collaborate on planning, preparing, communicating, responding, and recovering from a school-based incident. As a result of this training, rural law enforcement, school superintendents, principals, school resource officers and others within the school system and community will be better prepared to work collaboratively when a crisis occurs.

The University of Findlay (Findlay, Ohio) is one of the charter members of the Rural Domestic Preparedness Consortium and is the developer and presenter of the AWR 148 training course. Additional information on all RDPC course offerings can be found at www.ruraltraining.org. To request a course to be delivered in your area, contact Liz Goodman, RDPC Project Administrator, at 419-434-4353 or email goodman@findlay.edu.