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:

• 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.   
  • 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 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
• Developing and Maintaining Emergency Operations Plans
• FEMA sample plan
• Threat and Hazard Identification and Risk Assessment (THIRA)
• Ready kids
• Standard Response Protocol- I love u guys
• Recommendations for Safe Voting on School Campuses

RESOURCES

Former REMS TA

• Developing Emergency Operation Plans Checklists
• Site Assessments Protocol
• Emergency Exercises Fact Sheet
• Cybersecurity Tabletop
• *K-12 Cybersecurity 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

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/