Documenti di Didattica
Documenti di Professioni
Documenti di Cultura
The grants will support partnerships among school districts, local response agencies,
and other community resources to make schools safer, and will cover the costs of joint
school safety planning, training, drills, exercises, and evaluations. The grants are also
designed to help schools access major school safety funding from Federal sources and
through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).
The School Safety Fund promotes broad adoption of the National Incident
Management System (NIMS), the Incident Command System (ICS), and the
National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) for schools.
According to Denver-based School Safety Partners, these 3 Federal programs offer the
best platform for schools to address all hazards, including active shooter, animal threat,
blast, bomb threat, bus accident, chemical spill, earthquake, fire, flood, food
contamination, gas odor, intruder, lightning, non-custodial parent, pandemic outbreak,
power outage, tornado, violent student, and winter storm.
School Safety Partners expects to announce 20 grants in February, 2010, and will match
the SchoolSafe grants with contributions from other public, private, and academic
sponsors. In addition, awardees will receive independent consulting services throughout
2010 and 2011 to pursue additional funding from Federal agencies.
Guidelines for applying for the grants will be published Tuesday, December 1, 2009, on
the School Safety Partners web site at www.SchoolSafetyPartners.org.
Applications must be received, or filed online, no later than Friday, January 15,
2010.
1
Department of Education, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services.
All qualified applicants are entitled to a minimum in-kind contribution from the School
Safety Fund of administrative assistance and a web-enabled task management system to
help carry out the NIMS implementation activities.
The U.S. Department of Education's overview of the NIMS implementation activities for
schools and higher education institutions can be viewed at
www.SchoolSafetyPartners.org/nims. In addition, the School Safety Fund will release a
guide to managing the 15 activities through a series of accelerated workshops at the
school or district level.
2
15. Apply standardized and consistent terminology for school and campus incidents,
including the establishment of plain English communication standards across the
public safety sector.