DEVELOPING INNOVATIVE STRATEGIES
PROMOTING SCHOOL SAFETY AWARENESS
SERVICES
Prevention
Risk Analysis
At PARATUS SECURITY GROUP, we work with School Administrators, Planners, Architects, Engineers and other building science professionals to identify and quantify the security risks to which a school may be exposed. Our main objective of the risk assessment process is to identify vulnerabilities and find the most effective mitigation measures to achieve a desired level of protection. We then define and evaluate threats, consequences and vulnerabilities for the purpose of integrating the security risks into an effective design strategy. Risk reduction takes place by evaluating then implementing protective measures, and by preparing your school's Safety Emergency/Response Plans.
PARATUS SECURITY GROUP recently conducted a Risk Analysis at Jackson Walnut Park Schools, Newton, MA.
Preparedness Exercises
At PARATUS SECURITY GROUP, our FEMA-certified Master Exercise Practitioners will custom-design exercises to meet your specific needs. These range from discussion-based table top exercises all the way up to full scale exercises. We regularly utilize six types of exercises which are either discussion-based or operations-based.
Discussions-based Exercises familiarize participants with current plans, policies, agreements and procedures, or may be used to develop new plans, policies, agreements, and procedures.
Operations-based Exercises validate plans, policies, agreements and procedures, clarify roles and responsibilities, and identify resource gaps in an operational environment.
In addition to FEMA-certified Master Exercise Practitioners, our consulting team also includes experts in public health preparedness who understand and the growing intersection between emergency management agencies and public health preparedness agencies.
Crisis Response Plans
At Paratus Security Group, our team of professionals have decades of experience establishing and maintaining crisis management plans. School officials or someone tasked with such responsibilities often may seem overwhelmed or unsure of where to start. At PARATUS SECURITY GROUP we will take your obsolete or vague plan and make it compliant with the newest security standards.
The staff at PARATUS will design your plan around the four phases of crisis management: Mitigation/Prevention, Preparedness, Response and Recovery. Each step is designed to stimulate critical thinking about crisis preparedness.
Getting school and business response plans right is absolutely critical. It can be the difference between a calm, orderly response and chaos; between decisive, courageous action and inaction. It can also assist with continuity in your day to day operations.
Violence Prevention/Response
and Bystander Intervention
At PARATUS SECURITY GROUP, our consulting team of violence prevention and bystander intervention professionals provides clients with expert consultation and training support to address some of the most challenge issues facing campus leaders. This support can be provided proactively to help institutions ensure that their policies, programs and educational materials regarding student safety are consistent with best practices. Assistance can also be provided following incidents to support institutions in the handling of complex cases and assess whether gaps in existing protocol need to be closed with updated policies and procedures.
Specific challenges facing campus leaders for which our consulting team
has expertise include:
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Title IX compliant sexual assault, intimate partner violence & stalking prevention
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Bystander intervention education and programing
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Behavioral intervention with disruptive and distressed students
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Civility education and bias incident response
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Hazing, bullying and harassment
Crisis Communications
Schools that find themselves managing a crisis need to be concerned not only with operational and security responses to a situation but the communications used to address incidents with key audiences. Paratus Security Groups’s Crisis Communications consulting team provides clients with comprehensive support to manage the crisis communications needs arising from security incidents, allegations of misconduct on the part of faculty or other matters that present reputational risk to an institution.
Crisis communications services include working with clients to develop messaging for internal and external audiences for various stages of a crisis communications response, development of media engagement strategies, preparation of media statements, serving
as a media spokesperson and providing media training and coaching to prepare clients
for media engagement. Support is also available to help organizations develop and exercise crisis communications plans.
Legal
Paratus Security Group understands the unique and often sensitive issues faced by schools. Our attorneys pay particular attention to how such issues affect a school’s relationship with its students, parents, faculty, staff and the wider community. We stand ready to counsel school officials on these matters and others, ranging from crisis management, to essential policies and procedures for prevention and management
of critical events and emergencies.
Social/Emotional Counseling & Support
Paratus offers emotional support services if a school is faced with the aftermath of a tragic event. Intended outcomes of crisis assistance ensures immediate assistance when emergencies arise. Follow-up care is provided when necessary and appropriate so that students feel prepared to resume learning. Outcomes are reflected in the creation of a safe and productive environment and the development of student and family attitudes about- and capacities for-dealing with violence and other threats to safety.
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