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Do You Have a Transition Process for the Aftermath of a Traumatic Event?

Your District has experienced, and will continue to experience, traumatic events of all types, from bus accidents to the natural deaths of students and staff. One of the measures of your administration's effectiveness will be the transition back to normal operations.

Most Districts hold a Faculty/Staff meeting prior to the re-opening of the school to brief everyone regarding the incident. This is an important event; however, it is a time when individuals are supporting each other and gathering information about the event. This means they will possibly miss or misinterpret critical information. It is very important to hand them a written plan that covers all aspects of the event and the transition.

You may find yourself needing two written plans, one for the highly-impacted site and another for District-wide distribution. This is a critical last activity for your Incident Management Team who will need to support the activities of your school counselors and others who will respond to assist.

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Features/Benefits

• Provides a complete after-incident response, covering the first day back and beyond.
• Comes with plans for 15 different types of events.
• Includes three versions of each plan: one for primary, middle and secondary schools.
• Lets you build a customized response by editing an existing plan or creating a new plan.
• Provides expert advice that guides you through every part of every plan.
• Archives past responses for future reference and documentation.

List of Plans
The list of plans built into Aftermath is shown below. They serve as templates for your responses. As you review the list, keep a couple of things in mind:

Age makes a difference. Each plan has a primary, middle and a secondary school version.

You're in control. You can edit any plan to suit your needs. You can also create new plans or delete plans as you see fit.

1. Accident with Serious Injury
2. Bus Accident
3. Death by Natural Causes (Expected)
4. Death by Natural Causes (Unexpected)
5. Death by Violence
6. Earthquake
7. Fire/Hazardous Materials
8. Flood
9. Gang Activity
10. Severe Weather/Natural Disasters
11. Student Terrorism
12. Suicide (Student)
13. Suicide (Faculty/Staff Member)
14. Tornado
    

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Building a Response
A response begins with a high degree of management activity and then tapers off as you move towards resuming normal operations. You build a response by using one of the planning templates. Each template starts with 3 pages. You then customize each page to meet your needs for a particular incident.

Page 1 has General Information such as:

• Details of the event
• Key resources (names, numbers and locations)
• Activating safe rooms
• Planning a Parent/Community Meeting

Page 2, shown below, is a schedule for the first day after the event. It enables you to plan and coordinate detailed management activity.

Page 3 is a schedule for the rest of the week, concentrating on broad objectives and reducing management intervention. You can insert additional pages as necessary. So if you need detailed schedules for Day 2, Day 3, Day 4, etc., you can add them simply by pushing a button!

Consulting With an Expert
Aftermath has a built-in consult feature that gives you expert advice and tips for each component of each plan. You can access this information at any time with the simple click of a button. It's like having an emergency management consultant sitting next to you, helping you make the critical decisions.

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