The Missouri Center for Safe Schools conducts an annual survey of school district safety coordinators in May.  The results of the survey for FY07-08 can be reviewed by clicking here.

The Missouri Office of Homeland Security is playing a leadership role in bringing together the emergency management resources for schools and communities.  Check out their website at http://www.dps.mo.gov/HomelandSecurity/index.htm.   Homeland Security dollars procured a 4-year contract for the use of the Emergency Response Information Plan (ERIP), a multi-hazard emergency planning tool and on-line training program, by all Missouri public and private schools, beginning August 1, 2007.  Go to http://erip.dps.mo.gov for more information and to get started.  The Missouri Center for Safe Schools is working with the Homeland Security Safe Schools Working Group to make the ERIP tool as effective as possible.  Click here for our current notes on recommended changes.  Provide us your recommendations for ways to improve ERIP.  The Missouri Center for Safe Schools provides more information on multi-hazard planning at the downloads sub-page of this website.

Latest changes to this website (as of September 2009) include:

1.  Addition of a handout on Earthquake Safety to the "emergency management" section of the "downloads" sub-page.  The handout was developed by the State Emergency Management Agency for distribution by school districts in accordance with RSMo 160.455.

2.  Addition of a section on bullying prevention to the "downloads" sub-page, including information and an application for Olweus bullying prevention training.

3.  Addition of the Science Lab Safety section to the "downloads" sub-page, including information about the 2008 instructional-use chemical cleanup project.

4.  Pandemic Preparedness for Schools, guidelines approved by the Missouri Homeland Security Safe Schools Working Group, posted May 2007 in the emergency management section of the "downloads" sub-page.

We provide training and certification for school district safety coordinators.  That training is in two parts.  First, the Basic Training, is available at any time using the instructions at the bottom of this page.  Second, the Advanced Training, is provided through the Regional Professional Development Centers each year.  The topics for the Advanced Training change year-to-year, so we would like to see every safety coordinator attend annually. 

BASIC SAFETY COORDINATOR TRAINING

Review the attached documents:

1. Role of the District Safety Coordinator

2. Overview of the Missouri Safe Schools Act [The statutes of the Safe Schools Act can be directly reviewed at www.moga.mo.gov/statutesearch.  You will need to have the statute number from our document.  To test your understanding, go ahead and look at the statute for Third Degree Assault, RSMo 565.070.  You should learn that there are six criteria.]

3. Missouri Violence Prevention Curriculum Framework  [Go straight to page 23 and read pages 23-26, then go back and review the entire document.]

When you have completed the review of the above documents, prepare the attached Registration Form and send it to the Missouri Center for Safe Schools as an e-mail attachment or a fax (instructions provided).

You will then receive one last document (Safety Review Checklist) for review, along with an assessment that you must complete and return to the Missouri Center for Safe Schools.  After satisfactorily completing the assessment, you will receive in the mail from the Missouri Center for Safe Schools a certificate of completion.