SchoolSAFE for REMS Grant

Awardees
School Safety Partners

SchoolSAFE Communications
technology supports Readiness and
Emergency Management for
Schools (REMS) as well as NIMS,
ICS, and SAFECOM.

DENVER, Colorado, August 16,

SchoolSAFE provides an invisible blanket of security.
2010 -- SchoolSAFE Communications,
the leader in public safety
communications for schools, is rolling out
a new line of services to dramatically
improve district-wide safety programs
while reducing costs.

The catalog of new services, called "School Safety 360," is designed to help school districts
leverage their school safety funding. The package is ideally suited for Readiness and Emergency
Management for Schools (REMS) grant awardees, and those receiving school safety funding
from the Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Health and
Human Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Education, and other Federal
sources.

SchoolSAFE Communications' core service provides seamless communications interoperability

between schools and first responders during a crisis. Public safety and school safety officials
have hailed the SchoolSAFE system as a boost to joint planning, training, drills, exercises, and
after-action evaluations.

The school safety technology supports broadly adopted standards for first responders, including
the National Incident Management System (NIMS), the Incident Command System (ICS), the
National Emergency Communications Plan, and SAFECOM -- the Federal platform for
interoperable communications for public safety.

SchoolSAFE's "School Safety 360" offerings include:

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 • Building and Campus Assessment -- From the point-of-view of ensuring clear
communications, this is a unique form of risk assessment that is offered to facilities
managers, school architects, construction planners, as well as security managers.

• Hands-On Training -- SchoolSAFE's radio training brings together community

partners and fits into all NIMS courses prescribed by the U.S. Department of Education
Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools.

• Exercise Design, Implementation, and Evaluation -- SchoolSAFE maintains a

growing library of scenarios for functional exercises that are high-impact yet less
expensive to conduct than full-scale exercises, and so they can be conducted more
frequently.

• MOU and SOP Workbooks -- Creating usable Memoranda of Understanding and

Standard Operating Procedures guides are often "blind spots" in REMS-related programs,
but here they are natural by-products of the SchoolSAFE installations that coordinate
multi-agency interoperable communications.

• SchoolSAFE Product Line -- The SchoolSAFE original catalog includes the right
radios for the school staff, the SchoolSAFE itself (including custom configuration) which
links schools with public safety, the district server, the software and licenses, system
maintenance, system monitoring district-wide, and accessories such as vests, props, and
other supplies that might be used in the recommended functional exercises as well as
during crisis response.

• Custom Development -- SchoolSAFE works with school districts to develop custom

solutions, building on a high level of hands-on interaction with school safety teams.

• Custom Learning Materials -- SchoolSAFE produces custom print and multimedia

materials that can be used in training at the school, district, or state level, or used at
school safety conferences, or in train-the-trainer programs.

In addition to improving coordination among agencies when responding to school incidents,

SchoolSAFE provides superior communications for day-to-day school and district operations.

For a copy of the "School Safety 360" catalog, call SchoolSAFE at 303-598-1555, or visit
www.schoolsafecom.org for a brief video tutorial.

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