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Agencies are using S&T-funded Mappedin to find their way quickly during critical incidents in schools and public buildings.
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Agencies are using S&T-funded Mappedin to find their way quickly during critical incidents in schools and public buildings.
Disasters from all-hazards and climate change will continue to affect our homeland and challenge DHS across a range of missions and frontline operations, exacerbating known and unknown risks to public safety and national security. Physical impacts of extreme weather and changing climatic conditions, such as environmental degradation, will increasingly intersect with human impacts of population growth, economic development, and technological innovation.
March 2024 CP3 Prevention Connection Newsletter: Feature story about the Louisiana Youth Advisory Council (LYAC), which provides high school students with an avenue to propose recommendations on youth-related issues directly to lawmakers.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in partnership with the U.S. Departments of Education (ED), Health and Human Services (HHS), and Justice (DOJ), launched a public awareness campaign to highlight federal school safety resources and evidence-based practices available through SchoolSafety.gov. The initiative is one of several new actions the Biden-Harris Administration is taking to support safer schools and communities.
U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas announced new members to the Homeland Security Academic Partnership Council (HSAPC), which he reconstituted in 2022.
Co-hosted with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) School Safety Task Force and the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Educational Technology (OET), the goal of this Digital Forum was to engage with the education sector, school safety stakeholders, civil society, and technology companies to amplify programs and platforms that help reduce risk factors to the radicalization to violence, ensure broad awareness of the threat of targeted violence and terrorism, and share innovative solutions for prevention.
Campus Resilience Program Releases New Exercise Starter Kits for Improvised Explosive Device, Hazardous Material Release, Tornado, and Earthquake Scenarios.
The 2019 Florida RTTX Summary Report.
The Situation Manual from the 2019 Florida RTTX.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Campus Resilience (CR) Program, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), convened the fourth Regional Tabletop Exercise for Institutions of Higher Education (RTTX) on February 25, 2019, at Florida SouthWestern State College. The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Campus Resilience (CR) Program, in partnership with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), convened the fourth Regional Tabletop Exercise for Institutions of Higher Education (RTTX) on February 25, 2019, at Florida SouthWestern State College.