Share Your Feedback
The REMS TA Center seeks your feedback to ensure that the Website is continually enhanced to meet your needs.
CONDUCTING ASSESSMENTS TO HELP YOUR EDUCATION AGENCY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION AND ENHANCE EMERGENCY PLANNING
Emergency management planning is a cyclical process that requires education agencies to continually identify and assess the risk posed by potential threats and hazards; create new collaborative relationships to enhance preparedness, response, and recovery; and assess various aspects of the school and institution of higher education (IHE) that may impact prevention, protection, mitigation, response, and recovery. The types of assessments that education agencies may conduct when working to create or revise emergency operations plans (EOPs) include site assessments, climate assessments, behavioral threat assessments, and capacity assessments. It is recommended, and often required based on the need for specific types of information, that emergency management planning teams at schools, school districts, and IHEs work with key community partners to conduct assessments. For example, local law enforcement may provide statistics that inform a college’s behavioral threat assessment activities, while state emergency management agencies may support schools with site assessments. When forming collaborative planning teams as a part of Step 1 of the EOP development process, school and higher ed emergency management teams should consider which partners will serve as key assessment stakeholders.
