Preparing for the Worst: information and resources in the event of a violent incident on campus

1. Preparing for the Worst:information and resources in the event of a violent incident on campus

2. Who is in the Room Today? • Academic Advisor • Faculty or Teaching Specialist • Student Services Coordinator or Director • Mental Health Provider • Other

3. Presentation Team: Katie Russell Academic Advisor, CBS Kai Takatsuka Academic Advisor, CSE Julie Goepferd Academic Advisor, CSE

4. Panelists: Lieutenant Troy Buhta Division Commander University of Minnesota Police Department Sharon Dzik Director, Student Conduct & Academic Integrity Behavioral Consultation Team Dave Fuecker Associate Director, Disability Services Employee Threat Assessment Team Dr. Steven Hermann Director, Boynton Mental Health Clinic

5. Learning Outcomes At the end of the presentation, we hope you will be able to: • Recognize some realities and myths associated with school shootings • Recall two campus safety resources • Analyze and discuss the role of student affairs in preparing for and responding to violent incidents on campus • Describe one element of the “OUT” acronym • Initiate conversations about developing an emergency action plan with your staff and colleagues

7. What is your first response in this situation?

8. What did you do? • Flee or Try to Escape • Hide or Barricade in a “Safe” Place • Call Police or Alert Others • Physically Confront Shooter

9. What thoughts or feelings were guiding your response?

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11. Definition of “Active Shooter” “An active shooter is an individual actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a confined and populated area…” http://www.alerts.si.edu/docs/DHS_ActiveShooterBook.pdf

12. Why Talk About It? “Advisors have been trained in student development and human potential, not in lockdowns, campus safety, and self defense. We often rely on the campus police force or campus security personnel to protect us while at work.” Stolar, S. (2009). Campus security issues: Consider your safety while advising. Retrieved from NACADA Clearinghouse of Academic Advising Resources Web site [http://www.nacada.ksu.edu/Resources/Clearinghouse/View-Articles/Safety-Issues-in-the-Workplace.aspx]

13. Why Talk About It? Active shooter situations are over within a matter of minutes—usually before police arrive to the scene. It is crucial for us to be aware of strategies to survive active shooter situations. There is a new expectation of safety within educational communities. Parents and students anticipate college officials and staff have plans in place to offer heightened security and effective responses to violence. Mastrodicasa, J. (2008), Technology use in campus crisis. New Directions for Student Services, 2008: 37–53. doi: 10.1002/ss.294 http://www.alters.si.edu/docs/DHS_ActiveShooterBook.pdf

14. Consider the facts: • Active shooters usually target particular individuals FALSE Kellner, D. (2008). Guys and guns amok. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers; http://www.alerts.si.edu/docs/DHS_ActiveShooterBook.pdf

15. Consider the facts: • We can accurately predict who may have “active shooter” tendencies FALSE Fox, J.A. (2008). The contagion of campus bloodshed. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 54.25, 92-98.; Greenberg, Sheldon (2007). Active shooters on college campuses: conflicting advice, roles of the individual and first responder, and the need to maintain perspective. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1, S57-S61. doi: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e318149f492

16. Consider the facts: • Of all school shootings, college campuses have the highest number of shooting incidents FALSE http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/12/sandy_hook http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2011hb.pdf

17. Consider the facts: • Mass shootings happen spontaneously when something “snaps” inside the active shooter’s mind FALSE DePue, RL. & DePue, JM, 1999, To Dream, Perchance to Kill, Security Management, American Society for Industrial Security, June p. 66.

18. Panel Q & A Lieutenant Troy Buhta Division Commander University of Minnesota Police Department Sharon Dzik Director, Student Conduct & Academic Integrity Behavioral Consultation Team Dave Fuecker Associate Director, Disability Services Employee Threat Assessment Team Dr. Steven Hermann Director, Boynton Mental Health Clinic

19. How we can prepare • Recognize symptoms related to mental health distress and utilize excellent documentation skills, screening expertise and counseling techniques • Share pertinent information with our colleagues, our supervisors and with threat assessment teams (Behavioral Consultation Team and Employee Threat Assessment Team) • Understand flexibility with FERPA & HIPAA during situations of imminent danger that are clearly defined by law. • Initiate an Emergency Action Plan for your office (2008), In search of safer communities: Emerging practices for student affairs in addressing campus violence. New Directions for Student Services, 2008: 1–38. doi: 10.1002/ss.300; Hollingsworth, K.R., Dunkle, J.H. & Douce, L. (2009). The high risk (disturbed and disturbing) college student. New Directions for Student Services, 128, 37-54. doi: 10.1002/ss.340

20. Emergency Action Plan • Agree on safety words or safety items • Identify at least two emergency exits and discuss emergency exit plan with your staff • Create a checklist of all employees • and students who work in your • office. Keep this checklist in a • place that is easy to access in the • event of an emergency evacuation. • Develop safety protocol for staff who • work outside normal business hours

21. Emergency Action Plan • Learn about and educate staff on lockdown capabilities for all doors • Keep at least two first aid kits in • various areas of the office • Agree that whoever can call 911 first • must do so, even if they assume • someone has already called • Attend (and encourage staff to attend) • “Active Shooter Response Plan” • Training through UMPD

22. Emergency Action Plan Things to consider: If you were unable to escape, where could you hide? If you were unable to hide, what could you do to defend yourself or to use force against the active shooter?

23. References (2008), In search of safer communities: Emerging practices for student affairs in addressing campus violence. New Directions for Student Services, 2008: 1–38. doi: 10.1002/ss.300 DePue, RL. & DePue, JM, 1999, To Dream, Perchance to Kill, Security Management, American Society for Industrial Security, June p. 66 Fox, J.A. (2008). The contagion of campus bloodshed. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 54.25, 92-98.; Greenberg, Sheldon (2007). Active shooters on college campuses: conflicting advice, roles of the individual and first responder, and the need to maintain perspective. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1, S57-S61. doi: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e318149f492 Greenberg, Sheldon (2007). Active shooters on college campuses: conflicting advice, roles of the individual and first responder, and the need to maintain perspective. Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, 1, S57-S61. doi: 10.1097/DMP.0b013e318149f492 Hollingsworth, K.R., Dunkle, J.H. & Douce, L. (2009). The high risk (disturbed and disturbing) college student. New Directions for Student Services, 128, 37-54. doi: 10.1002/ss.340 Kirk, C. (2012). Since 1980, 297 people have been killed in school shootings. Retrieved from http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/map_of_the_week/2012/12/sandy_hook_a_chart_of_all_196_fatal_school_shootings_since_1980_map.htm Kellner, D. (2008). Guys and guns amok. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers; Mastrodicasa, J. (2008), Technology use in campus crisis. New Directions for Student Services, 2008: 37–53. doi: 10.1002/ss.294 U.S. Department of Homeland Security (2008). Active shooter: How to respond. Retrieved from http://www.alerts.si/edu/docs/DHS_ActiveShooterBook.pdf U.S. Department of Labor (2012). Census of fatal occupational injuries. Retrieved from http://www.bls.gove/iif/osliwc/cfoi/cfoi_rates_2011hb.pdf l