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:
- Federal Emergency Management Agency website FEMA
- Maine Emergency Management Agency website MEMA
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA
Maine Requirements
Maine DOE Rules
- Visit the School Board approval of the Comprehensive Health and Safety Emergency Management Plan here, section 16
- Lockdown and Evacuation Drills: link coming soon
- 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.
MEMA requirements - visit the 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 Management 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
- Guide for developing high-quality Emergency Operations Plans
- FEMA Sample Emergency Operations Plan
- Ready kids
- Standard Response Protocol- I love u guys
- Recommendations for Safe Voting on School Campuses
RESOURCES
REMS TA
CISA
EXERCISES
HANDOUTS
- Safety Team Planning Principles
- Top 3 considerations and links to resources
- Identifying core planning teams
- 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/
Contact
Jack Peck
School Emergency Management Coordinator
Email: Jack.Peck @Maine gov