By Jaclyn Schildkraut

Following the February 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, FL, the Syracuse City School District (SCSD) and SUNY Oswego’s Department of Criminal Justice joined together in an initiative to provide emergency response training to students, faculty, and staff alike. Through this grant-funded project, the research team implemented the Standard Response Protocol (SRP-X) from the I Love U Guys Foundation, which provides emergency preparedness training for five different situations: Lockout, Lockdown, Evacuate, Shelter, and Hold. These five scenarios also reflect the functional annexes that schools are required to train for by the State of New York.

Syracuse, NY: Department of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Oswego, 2019. 119p.

By Robert A. Fein; Bryan Vossekuil; William S. Pollack; Randy Borum; William Modzeleski; Marisa Reddy

This document, Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates, takes these findings one step further by setting forth a process for identifying, assessing, and managing students who may pose a threat of targeted violence in schools. This process–known as threat assessment–was first pioneered by the U.S. Secret Service as a mechanism for investigating threats against the president of the United States and other protected officials. The Secret Service threat assessment approach was developed based upon findings from an earlier Secret Service study on assassinations and attacks of public officials and public figures.

Washington, DC: United States Secret Service and United States Department of Education, 2004. 98p.