CSC’s Safe Schools Program provides school leaders with process and tools to help them implement a comprehensive safe school planning strategy. This enables schools to take active measures to both reduce the likelihood of a serious incident occurring and to prepare to respond to a crisis — should one occur.

The CSC Safe Schools Program provides a wide-range of training, materials and support services. The nature of our multi-disciplinary, community-wide planning approach makes our Program the ideal choice for standardizing safe school planning across school districts, regions, and states.

Products and Services Available

The Safe Schools Handbook - Safe Schools: A Handbook for Practitioners (Second Edition, 2003) is your one-stop reference book for safe schools planning. Use the Handbook to:

• Identify safety concerns
• Establish security objectives
• Conduct security audits
• Write comprehensive safe school plans

The Handbook includes:

• A comprehensive approach to the safe school planning process
• A how-to guide for responding to critical incidents
• Risk reduction and incident response tools
• Reproducible surveys
• Sample safe school plans
• Answers to terrorist and hostage situations
• Policy, prevention, and physical security guidance

Price discounts for larger quantities are available.

To order your copy of Safe Schools: A Handbook for Practitioners, download the order form at the bottom of this page.

Safe Schools Training - Subject matter experts provide customized safe schools training for:

• District Superintendents
• Principals
• Administrators
• Counselors
• Staff
• School Board Members
• School Resource Officers
• School Security Officers

Our training package is presented through one or two-day workshops that teach participants fundamental risk reduction and incident response planning. Participants learn how to apply sixteen sequential tools that serve as the framework for a safe school plan.

Safe Schools Newsletters - Electronic Safe Schools Newsletters reinforce training, sustain your Safe Schools Program and provide updates on:

• Security Policies
• Prevention Programs
• Physical Security Measures
• Safe School Planning Issues
• School Safety and Security Research
• Antiterrorism Techniques

The safe schools newsletters allow readers to explore current issues schools face. The newsletter offers school administrators practical solutions to concerns including: substance abuse, cyber bullying, girl-on-girl bullying, gangs, security, violence, antiterrorism, and more.

Download an example of the newsletter at the bottom of the page to learn more.

Safe Schools Best Practices Guides - These guides summarize experts’ recommendations and provide examples of solutions and programs on topics such as:

• Terrorism
• Bullying
• Behavior Issues
• Character Education
• Conflict Resolution
• Gangs
• Hate Prevention
• Life Skills
• Parental Involvement
• Sexual Harassment and Assault
• Substance Abuse
• Suicide

Tailored Best Practices Guides support your program by helping you find the solutions to school safety and security issues.

Train-the-Trainer Curriculum

• Customized course development
• Tailored scenarios, e.g. crisis response simulations; practical exercises

Our education and security experts teach participants how to lead attendees through specific crisis scenarios. Participants will leave this training with the skills needed to lead drills in order to help school staff digest the reality of a real crisis.

Other Services

• On-site Security Assistance Visits - Some clients who use our training find it beneficial to have on-site follow-up support from our experts to work with key staff to complete a portion of their plans. Support in this area includes on-site school security reviews.
• Technical Assistance - Support with school policy, prevention programs, crisis situations, emergency preparedness, building and grounds security.
• Help Line - We also offer a Help Line with assistance available via phone or E-mail. The Help Line allows administrators direct access to our team of education and security experts to support your on-going safe school policy, program and physical security planning efforts.
• Crisis Exercises for Emergency Protective Action Drills, Path Games, Tabletop Exercises, Full Scale Exercises - The crisis exercises are based on actual scenarios and are practiced in real time as the crisis unfolds. During the tabletop exercises participants work in teams and are prompted through a series of events, which force them to work together to make important response decisions.

Contact Us

CSC's Safe Schools Program
6101 Stevenson Avenue
Alexandria, VA 22304

703.461.2422
safeschools@csc.com