Active Shooter Parent Presentation

Presenters

Scot HooperFollow
Scot Hooper, Odyssey Charter SchoolFollow

First Presenter's Institution

Odyssey Charter School

First Presenter's Brief Biography

Educational Professional Licensed Superintendent -Georgia Professional Standards Commission Turn-Around School Administrator Former President Abloy Security Corporation - America Honorary Member Georgia Sheriffs Association

Document Type

Event

Primary Strand

School Safety

Relevance to Primary Strand

Review Department of Homeland Security Lock-Down Procedures

Review National Threat assessment case studies of school shootings

Responsibility of School, parents, law enforcement during an Active Shooter Incident

Prevention of school violence and recommendations from The Department of Homeland Security

Alignment with School Improvement Plan Topics

Family and Community Engagement

Brief Program Description

There is an active shooter on a school campus: What does the School do ? What does Law Enforcement do? But I am a Parent What do I do ?? Here is what the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI recommend.

Summary

Executive Summary

The number one concern of Odyssey Charter School is the safety and welfare of the scholars, employees and families in our school community. During the past 10 years school violence has escalated and so has the need for emergency planning. These safety plans include the training of scholars, teachers and parents to make sure we safely return your scholar to the family during a time of crisis on campus. No scholars is considered “Safe” until they are in the control of the family and headed home. The goal of the security planning for our campus is to accomplish this goal “safely return the scholar to their family and get them moving toward their home”. This program is designed to inform parents of their responsibility during a Shooter on Campus or similar situation. Please follow along and ask any questions you would like to the school administrator.

Additional Information

Additional Text is available on the school website Odysseycharterschool.net. Please find the index titled School Life / Parents / Security. Here you will find two text books published by the Department of Homeland Security;

Protecting America’s Schools – U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Targeted School Violence

Averting Targeted School Violence - U.S. Secret Service Analysis of Plots Against Schools

These textbooks review case studies, which have assisted us in developing our current safety protocols, and procedures. Research and directives from the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) direct our lockdown procedures and campus safety plan.

Evidence

All materials supplied by U.S. Secret Service:

1. Analysis of Targeted School Violence

2. Averting Targeted School Violence

1 National Threat Assessment Center. (2018). Enhancing school safety using a threat assessment model: An operational guide for preventing targeted school violence. U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security.

2 It should be noted that homicides rarely occur at schools in the United States. During the 2015–2016 school year, the most recent year for which data is available, about 1% of school-aged youth homicides in the United States occurred in a school setting; found in Musu, L., Zhang, A., Wang, K., Zhang, J., & Oudekerk, B.A. (2019). Indicators of School Crime and Safety: 2018. U.S. Department of Justice. Washington, DC. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2019/2019047.pdf.

3 Vossekuil, B., Fein, R., Reddy, M., Borum, R., & Modzeleski, W. (2002). The Final Report and Findings of the Safe School Initiative: Implications for the Prevention of School Attacks in the United States. U.S. Secret Service and U.S. Department of Education: Washington D.C.

4 A former student was defined as a student who left the targeted school within the previous year and no longer attended a K-12 school, or a student who was currently enrolled in any K-12 school and targeted a school he or she had previously attended. For example, while the perpetrator of the 2012 attack at an elementary school in Newtown, CT was a former student, that attack was not included in the data for this report as the perpetrator had not attended a K-12 school in over three years prior to his attack.

5 U.S. Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/. 6 Public School Review. (n.d.). Average public school student:teacher ratio. Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://www.publicschoolreview.com/average-student-teacher-ratio-stats/national-data. 7 U.S. Department of Education. Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://nces.ed.gov/ccd/. 8 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2018). 1992–2016 School-Associated Violent Death Surveillance System (SAVD-SS) (partially funded by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Safe and Healthy Students). Unpublished tabulation. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from: https://nces.ed.gov/programs/crimeindicators/ind_01.asp. 9 One attack did not have clear information available on the incident duration and was categorized as “unknown.” 10One school-aged victim was not enrolled as a student at the school where the attack occurred. She was enrolled in a different high school, and was attending prom at the targeted school at the time of the attack. 11The status of one of the attackers is unknown. 12National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, CDC. (2017). 10 Leading Causes of Death by Age Group, United States-2017. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from www.cdc.gov: https://www.cdc.gov/injury/images/lc-charts/leading_causes_of_death_by_age_group_2017_1100w850h.jpg. 13For one incident that involved planning behaviors, the time span of the planning behavior(s) was not available. 14Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence. (2018). Minimum Age to Purchase and Possess. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-laws/ policy-areas/who-can-have-a-gun/minimum-age/#federal. 15Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. (n.d.). Many children lack access to mental health care. CDC.gov. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://www.cdc.gov/childrensmentalhealth/documents/access-infographic.html. 16One of the attackers with suicidal ideations was not coded in the psychological symptoms category due to a lack of additional symptoms indicative of a psychological or emotional health disorder. However, the attacker did experience a number of behavioral symptoms and he was appropriately coded in that category. 17Kjelsberg,E. (2006). Exploring the Link between Conduct Disorder in Adolescence and Personality Disorders in Adulthood. Psychiatric Times, 24 (8). 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Retrieved October 18, 2019, from https://www.unicef-irc.org/article/984-stress-as-a-factor-in-family-violence.html. 25Sontag, L.M., Graber, J.A., Brooks-Gunn, J., & Warren, M.P. (2008). Coping with social stress: Implications for psychopathology in young adolescent girls. Journal of abnormal child psychology, 36(8), 1159–1174. 26This definition was adapted from the definitions found in: What is Bullying? (2019). U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://www.stopbullying.gov/what-is-bullying/index.html; and, Gladden, R.M., Vivolo-Kantor, A.M., Hamburger, M.E., & Lumpkin, C.D. (2014). Bullying surveillance among youths: Uniform definitions for public health and recommended data elements (Version 1.0). National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and US Department of Education. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://www.cdc.gov. 27U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2019). Facts about bullying. Retrieved October 19, 2019, from https://www.stopbullying.gov/media/facts/index.html. 28These terms were adapted from the definitions found in: Gladden, R.M., Vivolo-Kantor, A.M., Hamburger, M.E., & Lumpkin, C.D. (2014). Bullying surveillance among youths: Uniform definitions for public health and recommended data elements (Version 1.0). National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, Centers for Disease Control, and Prevention and US Department of Education. 29For one attacker, there was insufficient information to assess their social life. 30National Threat Assessment Center. (2018). Enhancing school safety using a threat assessment model: An operational guide for preventing targeted school violence. U.S. Secret Service, Department of Homeland Security. 31Kanan, L., Nicoletti, J., Garrido, S., & Dvoskina, M. (2016). A Review of Psychological Safety and Threat Assessment Issues Related to the Shooting at [High School Name] on December 13, 2013. 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Learning Objective 1

Participants will be able to Identify responsibility of the School and Parents during an Active Shooter Situation

Learning Objective 2

Participants will be able to Safely Reunite students and families following an active shooter incident

Learning Objective 3

Participants will be able to safely cooperate with local law enforcement during an active shooter incident

Learning Objective 4

School will be able to identify potentially dangerous activity by students and intervene

Recommended Citation

Hooper, Scot and Hooper, Scot, "Active Shooter Parent Presentation" (2023). Southeast Conference on School Climate. 95.
https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/secsc/2023/2023/95

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