By Sam Caleb Y Dupage
"Bullycide" is is an unfortunate new term coined to describe teen suicides prompted by extreme intimidation by other students. Its victims are teens like Miranda Larnerd or the teenager whose case gained national attention as her parents claimed her to be a victim of "cyber-bullying". Megan was the victim of a cruel MySpace hoax perpetrated by peers and a neighboring parent. She commited suicide after reading a particularly cruel entry.
Social networking sites are not the province of school systems. And yet high school, college and, surprisingly, middle school is where bullying can be incubated or halted before it spawns tragedy. It is simply too often the case that teachers and school administrators are not prepared to recognize the signs of violence or harassment before it occurs.
The All Hazards Training Center at The University of Findlay, or Findlay All Hazards for short, offers solutions for prevention of student harassment, and other school security concerns such as disgruntled parents, weapons on school grounds, and assaults. A truly comprehensive approach is always taken, which includes contingent safety issues including severe weather, fires, and hazardous materials transportation accidents.|Where can they go for help? School Safety and Security Training from the University of Findlay provides thorough training and simulation exercises for administrators and safety professionals to recognize, prevent and handle issues like harassment and intimidation. But Findlay's approach goes beyond the issue of bullying, treating such threats as contraband at schools, bomb threats, security screening and transportation safety.
Findlay's training programs meet the needs of all primary and secondary schools, as well as colleges and universities, with the goals of improving the overall safety of the campus, and readying everyone, from the superintendant's office to teachers to maintenance staff, to deal with emergencies or potential crisis. At the primary school level, one of the things that sets Findlay apart is the involvement of parents in the programswith two main phases: assessment and ongoing training.
Findlay's School Safety and Security subject matter experts teach the essential steps in hazard awareness, with emphasis on situation management and emergency response, in single six to eight hour classes selected from a suite of courses for school teachers and administrators. Complementing the staff training, students and, on occasion, parents receive a few hours of instruction from the All Hazards Training Center. Such sessions also profile a school's safety and security vulnerabilities for Findlay's experts, including the manner in which students treat one another and the measures that have been taken in prior harassment situations, whether mental or physical.
These School Safety and Security training courses stress "threat assessment management" as the most sure-fire means of preventing bullying and harrasment. After the essentials of school security and safety training have been covered, instructors can go deeper with specialized training for particular parts of the school staff, such as a more in-depth threat management course.
The classroom training can move into "hands-on" training, where exercises are performed that address certain potential crisis scenarios. Ultimately, in concert with fire, police, and other local emergency services, Findlay's school safety training personnel conduct full-scale emergency exercises across the entire school system.
Now more than ever, though, Findlay school security trainers work to prepare the entire school building staff to detect problems before they escalate. By understanding the venues of harassment and bullying, whether those are websites or out of the way, unseen areas of schools where violence can take place away from the notice of school staff, these important school safety training classes demonstrate how to prevent bullying and worse. All Hazards instruction also helps schools create safe means for students to report harassment.
Many students today never feel truly safe at school, especially when cyber-bullying carries threats and intimidation beyond the school environment. School safety and security training from the All Hazards Training Center equips educators to restore the environment of safety and learning that kids deserve.
Social networking sites are not the province of school systems. And yet high school, college and, surprisingly, middle school is where bullying can be incubated or halted before it spawns tragedy. It is simply too often the case that teachers and school administrators are not prepared to recognize the signs of violence or harassment before it occurs.
The All Hazards Training Center at The University of Findlay, or Findlay All Hazards for short, offers solutions for prevention of student harassment, and other school security concerns such as disgruntled parents, weapons on school grounds, and assaults. A truly comprehensive approach is always taken, which includes contingent safety issues including severe weather, fires, and hazardous materials transportation accidents.|Where can they go for help? School Safety and Security Training from the University of Findlay provides thorough training and simulation exercises for administrators and safety professionals to recognize, prevent and handle issues like harassment and intimidation. But Findlay's approach goes beyond the issue of bullying, treating such threats as contraband at schools, bomb threats, security screening and transportation safety.
Findlay's training programs meet the needs of all primary and secondary schools, as well as colleges and universities, with the goals of improving the overall safety of the campus, and readying everyone, from the superintendant's office to teachers to maintenance staff, to deal with emergencies or potential crisis. At the primary school level, one of the things that sets Findlay apart is the involvement of parents in the programswith two main phases: assessment and ongoing training.
Findlay's School Safety and Security subject matter experts teach the essential steps in hazard awareness, with emphasis on situation management and emergency response, in single six to eight hour classes selected from a suite of courses for school teachers and administrators. Complementing the staff training, students and, on occasion, parents receive a few hours of instruction from the All Hazards Training Center. Such sessions also profile a school's safety and security vulnerabilities for Findlay's experts, including the manner in which students treat one another and the measures that have been taken in prior harassment situations, whether mental or physical.
These School Safety and Security training courses stress "threat assessment management" as the most sure-fire means of preventing bullying and harrasment. After the essentials of school security and safety training have been covered, instructors can go deeper with specialized training for particular parts of the school staff, such as a more in-depth threat management course.
The classroom training can move into "hands-on" training, where exercises are performed that address certain potential crisis scenarios. Ultimately, in concert with fire, police, and other local emergency services, Findlay's school safety training personnel conduct full-scale emergency exercises across the entire school system.
Now more than ever, though, Findlay school security trainers work to prepare the entire school building staff to detect problems before they escalate. By understanding the venues of harassment and bullying, whether those are websites or out of the way, unseen areas of schools where violence can take place away from the notice of school staff, these important school safety training classes demonstrate how to prevent bullying and worse. All Hazards instruction also helps schools create safe means for students to report harassment.
Many students today never feel truly safe at school, especially when cyber-bullying carries threats and intimidation beyond the school environment. School safety and security training from the All Hazards Training Center equips educators to restore the environment of safety and learning that kids deserve.
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