School Emergency Management

School Emergency Management Partners

The Maine School Safety Center (MSSC) will provide school emergency management training for all our stakeholders and constituents. Our training will consist of a basic, intermediate, and advanced training. Here are links to our partners:

• Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools, Technical Assistance Center website REMS TA 
• Federal Emergency Management Agency website FEMA
• Maine Emergency Management Agency website MEMA
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA

Maine Requirements

Maine DOE Rules

• Visit School Board approval of Comprehensive Health and Safety Emergency Management Plan here section 16
• Lockdown and Evacuation Drills: visit the Maine.gov website and select Ch. 125 section 5.17

• Mandatory Online Bomb Threat Reporting. The Maine Department of Education's secure school bomb threat reporting database requires administrators to have a username and a case-sensitive password to report incidents. Your local Superintendent Office should have the username and password on file.
• Laws. Maine laws associated with school bomb threats are governed by Maine Education and School Statute Title 20-A.   
  • Response to school bomb threats, Section 263
  • School bomb threat response policies, Section 1001.17
  • Bomb threat information in student handbooks, Section 1001.18

MEMA requirements- visit website here, visit the document here. All School Administrators should have the following FEMA courses:

• ICS 100C Introduction to the Incident Command System 
• ICS 200C Basic Incident Command for Initial Response
• ICS 700B An Introduction to the National Incident Managment System
• ICS 800D National Response Framework, An Introduction 

Emergency Operations Planning (EOP)

The MSSC will provide training, guidance, and ongoing support to schools in order to assure every school in Maine possesses a comprehensive, high-quality school emergency operations plan. 

Organizations and resources included are for reference and information only, they are not an endorsement from the Maine Department of Education.

GUIDANCE

• CISA Security Planning Workbook - This will aid in the development of your Emergency Operations Plan
• REMS TA Guide for developing high quality Emergency Operations Plans 
• FEMA Sample Emergency Operations Plan  
• FEMA Climate Essentials for Emergency Managers
• Ready kids
• Standard Response Protocol- I love u guys
• Recommendations for Save Voting on School Campuses

RESOURCES

REMS TA

• Site Assessments descriptions.pdf
• Site Assessment App
• REMS TA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL TOOLKIT
• Emergency Exercises fact sheet

 CISA

• K-12 School Security Guide Suite
• Social Media Threat Guidance
• School Safety Resource

EXERCISES

• CISA Tabletop Exercises
• FEMA Tabletop Exercises
• Emergency Exercises fact sheet
• REMS TA Training package

HANDOUTS

• Safety Team Planning Principles
• Top 3 considerations and links to resources
• Safety teams.pdf
• Emergency Operations Considerations for Athletic Directors

Grant Opportunities

• SchoolSafety.gov https://www.schoolsafety.gov/grants-finder-tool
• Greenlights Grant Initiative
• DOJ COPS grants  https://cops.usdoj.gov/grants
• MEMA https://www.maine.gov/mema/grants
• BJA School Resource Officer https://bja.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/school-resource-officers-sro
• Grant finder  https://grantfinder.com/