How prepared is your community to respond to a major disaster?  Whether a crisis is man-made, natural, or technological, we must understand that crisis planning is an essential part of preparedness.  How your community responds, or fails to do so, can have long term implications.   

The School Violence Resource Center (SVRC) understands that effective crisis management requires a multi-disciplinary approach utilizing a viable crisis management system.  The “All Crisis” approach is most appropriate in this time of shrinking manpower and budgets. 

As a service to our stakeholders, the SVRC assist schools in developing safe school plans.  Analysis of a majority of these plans revealed that much of the crisis planning was done in a vacuum; that is without consultation with law enforcement, fire, medical, victim services, and other significant community agencies or organizations.  Responding to the need to provide crisis management training for rural communities at the county level, the SVRC developed the Community Crisis Preparedness Workshop (CCPW).

Photographs from previous CCPW workshops