- Plan for evacuating children who are in child care
- Plan for reuniting families after a disaster
- Plan for children with disabilities and those with access and functional needs
- Multi-hazard plan for all K – 12 schools
- Plan for evacuating children who are in child care
- Plan for children with disabilities and those with access and functional needs
- Plan for reuniting families after a disaster
- Multi-hazard plan for all K – 12 schools
Our Get Ready Get Safe initiative is dedicated to helping communities prepare for worst-case scenarios, generating emergency plans for our most vulnerable victims, making sure supplies are in place before disasters happens, and training those who are most responsible for children’s safety.
Disasters and Worst-Case Scenarios
All too often, disasters facing kids are not natural disasters like tornadoes or fires, but man-made disasters, such as the December 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newton, Connecticut; the 2007 Virginia Tech shooting; or the 1999 Columbine High School shooting.
Seventeen lawsuits were filed after the 1999 Columbine shootings; most of these were settled for confidential amounts, with lawsuits against not only the school authorities, but also law enforcement and the killers’ parents. Among these settlements, a settlement for the wrongful death case filed by the family of Columbine teacher Dave Sanders for $1,500,000.00.
In these situations, surviving parents and loved ones are grieving the wrongful death of their child or spouse and considering whether or not the school or school district or school authorities could have done more to stop and prevent the wrongful death from happening. No one is suggesting that these lawsuits are the optimal solution to these man-made disasters – the better course would be for there to be sufficient safeguards and security in place to protect kids before something happens.
Which means that the September 2013 Report by Save the Children is so very important. Indiana and Illinois both have “unsatisfactory” results here and this is not good news for our communities.
