SEM-7600 - Capstone: Developing Strategies and Policies to Further Safety, Security, and Emergency Management Practices

Semester Credits: 3 Weeks: 8

This course is the capstone of your specialization or certificate in school safety, security, and emergency management. You will use the foundational principles and approaches you have learned to create a capstone project. In that project, you will review crisis response policies and critique crisis recovery policies for K-12 schools across diverse settings. You will also justify the use of threat and hazard identification and risk assessment (THIRA) prior to developing K-12 school emergency operations plans and create crisis communication and collaboration strategies for K-12 schools across diverse settings. Finally, you will advocate for safety and security prevention strategies and recommend strategies for considering diversity, equity, inclusion, and social justice in K-12 schools when facilitating the preparation of emergency operations plans.