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• National Incident Management System (NIMS) training for each school building’s crisis team.
   
• Tabletop exercises for each school building’s crisis team.
   
• A full-scale disaster exercise (conducted at Meads Mill Middle School in September 2008).
   
• Detailed virtual tactical maps of every middle and high school in the consortium accessible to local law enforcement officials.
   
• Emergency alerting systems in place for all school districts to contact parents and first responders in an emergency.
   
• Safe schools workshops for school families to help parents identify and report safety issues.
   
• Critical Incident Stress Management training for all school counselors.
   
• A training DVD that outlines safety and security procedures for all new hires and substitute staff.
   
• A pandemic flu plan that addresses all phases of crisis team planning.