Description

Having an Emergency Communications Guidebook helps communicators and administrators react and respond to an emergency quickly. When faced with an emergency, do you really want to spend the time forming a message from scratch to alert parents or even community members that they or their children are at risk? Or, that a situation is being handled? Preparing a guidebook before an emergency supports administrators and employees handling a situation at all levels with the proper messaging and takes the guesswork out of crafting a message, which helps cut down on critical response time. Attendees will walk through creating pocket statements based on the BCOE Emergency Communications Guidebook and their own experiences. Pocket statements will be drafted to fit multiple scenarios, and customized to come from school site, district office, or county office of education officials. Attendees will leave the session feeling prepared to handle the messaging aspect of various crisis events, and with a customized Emergency Communications Guidebook.