Cheri Lovre

Safe Passage: Leading Your School Through Crisis and Recovery Cheri Lovre

Safe Passage: Leading Your School Through Crisis and Recovery guides educators as they think about the unthinkable: preparing for a disaster on school grounds that leads to injuries or deaths. From planning through immediate response through long-term recovery, it offers experience-based advice that can serve as the foundation for individual schools and districts crisis planning. With a strong emphasis on teamwork and preparedness, the author provides a thorough description of the people involved in school crisis response, the skills they need to have, steps to take during an emergency, and ways to help children and adults recover after an extreme experience. It also offers in-depth discussion of key crisis-related issues: working with the media, setting up temporary drop-in centers called Safe Rooms, and understanding grief and trauma.