Emergency Preparedness Training Guide for Higher Education Institutions

o 1. Prompt audience with scenario. o Hip Pocket Emergency Preparedness Training Guide (University & Colleges) Use appropriate sections to test individual preparedness/ readiness of specific group. (Students, classroom teachers, administrators & staff to include bus drivers, custodial and food services, and parent volunteers Each scenario should take no more than 3 minutes. 2. Listen to their response. 3. Evaluate their response together, taking in to account individual school/ district policies. 4. Suggest changes to response that may help audience in case of actual incident. o IHE Student Scenario #1 o Positive responses may include: Contact campus safety or Emergency Medical Services The school is shut down during a snowstorm. You have no way to get to the nearest pharmacy to refill your asthma medications. Who can you call? Contact resident advisor Call 911 o IHE Student Scenario #2 o Positive responses may include: Into the nearest building possible You are out on the quad when a campus security officer runs by with his gun drawn, yelling, Get inside right now. Where do you go and/or do? Alert occupants of building to situation and take emergency actions based on school policy at the direction of school staff Lock yourself into the nearest classroom

o IHE Student Scenario #3 o Positive responses may include: Tell a trusted adult/staff member A friend tells you she overheard a classmate talking on his phone about, Taking this place down. She swears you to secrecy, but you don t feel right. What can you do? Use anonymous reporting system, i.e. Text-a-Tip or Safe-2-Tell Notify campus security or police o IHE Student Scenario #4 o Positive responses may include: Tell a trusted adult/staff member At a party over the weekend you watch a freshman being initiated into his fraternity. It looked violent. What actions should you take? Use anonymous reporting system, i.e. Text-a-Tip or Safe2Tell Notify campus security or police o IHE Classroom Faculty Scenario #1 o Positive responses may include: At a minimum, lock and/or barricade doors, turn off lights, and hide if possible You receive a text alert from the school telling you to lockdown your lecture hall, which is filled with 56 students. What steps do you take to accomplish this? Responses based on current school policy

o IHE Classroom Faculty Scenario #2 Flood waters are rising around your lab room. Students report water coming in the back door. The school has given you no guidance as to proceed. What should you do? o Positive responses may include: Notify others in area of danger, evacuate if it is safe to do so Evacuate students to higher ground if possible, at a minimum move to higher floor Call 911 or campus security staff o IHE Classroom Faculty Scenario #3 You observe a student s computer screen, filled with images of a new faculty member in her lingerie. When confronted the student tells you, Everyone knows. What steps should you take? o Positive responses may include: Counsel student on appropriate computer usage Notify administrator or department head o IHE Classroom Faculty Scenario #4 o Positive responses may include: Counsel them on appropriate behavior in your school and how these threats have to be taken seriously One of the football players was just arrested for threats to the school. Your students can t understand why he was arrested and are getting angry. What do you tell them? Explain to the students the need to respect the player s privacy Arrange for students to speak with an administrator about this issue

o IHE Staff/Admin Scenario #1 Three upperclassmen were just arrested for dealing marijuana. The student council is angry about the arrests, blaming the school for not protecting the students rights. How do you handle this situation? o Positive responses may include: Arrange a meeting with the student council Talk about current state laws and school policy regarding marijuana use, as well as the damage done to the school community Involve the SRO or law enforcement if you feel it will be helpful o IHE Staff/Admin Scenario #2 The local police have just notified you about 2 men seen walking towards campus, possibly armed with rifles. The dean reported that they are ROTC students, training. What else needs to happen? o Positive responses may include: The school needs to go into lockdown until the two men can be identified by police and questioned If the men are students they should be talked to about appropriate behavior and the need to notify school staff of their activities o IHE Staff/Admin Scenario #3 o Positive responses may include: Consider evacuating to a secondary location before the storm arrives The building normally used to shelter in place during a storm is being renovated. Tornados are predicted for this afternoon. What steps should you take? Consider sending students home early as long as this can be accomplished safely Evaluate other shelter locations within the building

o IHE Staff/Admin Scenario #4 The physics professor reports, feeling scared, by a junior college transfer who has just been given a failing grade in physics. The student is relatively unknown on campus. What do you do? o Positive responses may include: Notify the Threat Assessment team for further evaluation and follow up Provide the professor with a police escort to his car Speak to the student about how he was impacted by the grade o IHE Parent/Visitor Scenario #1 o Positive responses may include: Notify the nearest police officer or security guard During a basketball game, opposing students begin yelling at each other. You witness one raise his shirt to show a handgun tucked in his waistband. What can you do? Notify the nearest school staff member Call 911 o IHE Parent/Visitor Scenario #2 o Positive responses may include: Notify school administration or campus security What actions can you take, if you hear about a sit-in, to be held later on, protesting the schools LGBTQ policy? Notify school staff

o IHE Parent/Visitor Scenario #3 o Positive responses may include: Don t keep this a secret for the student s safety, as well as the entire school Your student calls home, asking for your help with his/her friend who is in a bad place, but wants you to keep this secret. What actions can you take? Notify campus administration, campus security and/or mental health staff Call Safe2Tell or 911 o IHE Parent/Visitor Scenario #4 o Positive responses may include: Stay away from the area, you may cause confusion or become part of the incident Arriving on campus you hear multiple sirens and see police vehicles heading to the freshman dorms, where your child lives. What can you do? Text your student to find out what is going on Remain cautious, access the school s emergency notification system for updates