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Story submitted by CrisisGo.

Take a second to think about all your safety resources and protocols you’ve implemented for school safety. What keeps your students and staff safe every day? Is it enough? School districts can build a protective environment, and CrisisGo can help create a framework for quickly responding to and resolving emergencies as they arise. However, there will always be threats looming in the distance; which is why it’s so important to be proactive about school safety and leverage the most advanced resources possible to eliminate threats before they can become emergencies. Here’s how CrisisGo can help in these situations. Prevent EmergenciesBeforeTheyOccur Reporting safety risks is key for preventing future incidents and learning more about threats to schools. The use of student threat assessments (also known as behavioral assessments) allows your district to utilize a flexible, problem- solving approach that treats risks seriously and methodically while treating students with dignity and respect.

Student threat assessments are designed to keep schools safer and help complex students overcome the underlying sources of their feelings leading to threats like gun violence, suicide, drug use, physical abuse, criminal activity and dropping out of school. Conducting thorough student threat assessments can be a complex process, but they can greatly bolster the safety of any school district. While many districts will need some help to pull it all together, technology can play a huge role in assisting with the process and procedures surrounding student threat assessments. StreamlineWorkflowswithTechnology As safety risks continue to grow, technology and safety strategies have likewise been developed to help deal with the growing number of threats to our safety. There are several different approaches, but a commonality of successful threat assessments is being able to keep all parties united through clear communication and a functional flow of information and steps that need to be taken.

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10 LM March 2020