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The 2023 School Safety Summit will bring together national and local school safety experts, leaders, and practitioners from across the school safety field. Join us for a one-day event where your school safety team will receive best practices, training, and resources with other school and community leaders from across the state. Conference presentations and training opportunities will include experts in physical security, mental health, school climate, critical incident response, cyber, threat assessment, and more.

This event is open to central office leaders, school resource officers, school board members, principals, community liaisons, and other members of your school safety team.

When: May 2, 2023, 8:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.
Where: Lansing Crowne Plaza West

Featuring Keynote Speaker Samantha Fuentes
Survivor of the Parkland Florida Shooting

On February 14, 2018 a gunman wielding an AR-15 entered Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and fired on students, faculty, and staff. Seventeen people lost their lives and many others were wounded. Samantha Fuentes was amongst the injured in the Parkland tragedy, and while fortunate to be alive, her body and life changed forever. She has bullet shrapnel permanently embedded in her legs and behind her right eye, and currently manages symptoms of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). She lost revered friends and faculty members. Despite these tragic events, today, Samantha is resolved and committed to a poignant mission: to make sure that no child or adult is devastated by senseless and preventable gun violence ever again.

Agenda

Tuesday, May 2

• School Crisis Response – Be Prepared
• Get Your Staff Trained for Active Shooter Response
• Threat Assessment: Training, Implementation and Case Management
• The Threat in Threat Assessments
• Run, Hide, Fight…Now What? An All Hazards Approach to Managing Active Threat Event in K-12
• Implementing a Threat Assessment Protocol
• Creating Safe and Supportive Schools by Building Adult SEL
• Operationalizing District Threat Assessments: What We Have Learned and Lessons We Wish We Learned Earlier
• Planning a Meaningful Safety Simulation Training with Engaged Community Partners

2:30 PM – 2:45 PM           Break

2:45 PM – 4:00 PM           Learning Sessions & Closing
Note: Several sessions from the first set of breakouts will be repeated.

• Is Your District Prepared for Moments that Matter? A Guide to Closing Gaps and Securing Your Campus
• Get Your Staff Trained for Active Shooter Response
• A Model Going Forward from Safety and Security Assessments
• Cybersecurity Risk Management
• Run, Hide, Fight…Now What? An All Hazards Approach to Managing Active Threat Event in K-12
• Implementing a Threat Assessment Protocol
• Equipping School Safety Teams with the Power & Resource to Impact Student Mental Health
• Operationalizing District Threat Assessments: What We Have Learned and Lessons We Wish We Learned Earlier
• Planning a Meaningful Safety Simulation Training with Engaged Community Partners

Featured Presenters

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Striking A Balance: The Essential Components of Safe Schools
Kim Root, Manager, Office of School Safety, Michigan State Police; and Beth Beattie, Department Analyst, Office of School Safety, Michigan State Police

In this session, representatives from Michigan’s Office of School Safety will discuss the foundations of a safe school and address best practices around swatting, threat assessment, and emergency operations procedures.

Thank You Partners