School Emergency Management

School Emergency Management Partners

The Maine School Safety Center (MSSC) will provide school emergency management training for all our stakeholders and constituents. Our training will consist of a basic, intermediate and advanced training. Here are links to our partners:

• Readiness and Emergency Management for Schools, Technical Assistance Center website REMS TA 
• Federal Emergency Management Agency website FEMA
• Maine Emergency Management Agency website MEMA
• Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA

Maine Requirements

Maine DOE Rules

• Visit School Board approval of Comprehensive Health and Safety Emergency Managment Plan here section 16
• Lockdown and Evacuation Drills: visit the Maine Gov website and select Ch. 125 section 5.17

MEMA requirements- visit website here, visit the document here. All School Administrators should have the following FEMA courses:

• ICS 100C Introduction to the Incident Command System 
• ICS 200C Basic Incident Command for Initial Response
• ICS 700B An Introduction to the National Incident Managment System
• ICS 800D National Response Framework, An Introduction 

Emergency Operations Planning (EOP)

The MSSC will provide guidance, technical support, training, and facilitation to the school in order to assure every school in Maine possesses a comprehensive, high-quality school emergency operations plan. 

Organizations and resources included are for reference and information only, they are not an endorsement from the Maine Department of Education.

GUIDANCE

• CISA Security Planning Workbook - This will aid in the development of your Emergency Operations Plan
• REMS TA Guide for developing high quality Emergency Operations Plans 
• FEMA Sample Emergency Operations Plan  
• FEMA Climate Essentials for Emergency Managers
• Safe Voting in Schools Guidance
• Ready kids

RESOURCES

REMS TA

• Site Assessments descriptions.pdf
• Site Assessment App
• REMS TA EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VIRTUAL TOOLKIT
• Emergency Exercises fact sheet

 CISA

• K-12 School Security Guide Suite
• Social Media Threat Guidance
• School Safety Resource

EXERCISES

• CISA Tabletop Exercises
• FEMA Tabletop Exercises
• Emergency Exercises fact sheet
• REMS TA Training package

HANDOUTS

• Safety Team Planning Principles.pdf
• Top 3 considerations and links to resources.pdf
• Safety teams.pdf

Grant Opportunities

• SchoolSafety.gov https://www.schoolsafety.gov/grants-finder-tool
• Greenlights Grant Initiative
• DOJ COPS grants  https://cops.usdoj.gov/grants
• MEMA https://www.maine.gov/mema/grants
• Congressional Directed Spending FY 2024 Appropriations Requests and Congressionally Directed Spending | About the Committee | United States Senate Committee on Appropriations
• BJA School Resource Officer https://bja.ojp.gov/taxonomy/term/school-resource-officers-sro
• Grant finder  https://grantfinder.com/