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Direct linkPaige L. Moore; Ratna Okhai – Journal of Public Affairs Education, 2024
This simulation provides public administration, public policy, and management students and practitioners with an immersive disaster scenario. The table-top exercise provides an example of how municipal leaders can prepare for disaster scenarios and the importance of embedding social equity into disaster response. Additionally, it provides an…
Descriptors: Crisis Management, Natural Disasters, Emergency Programs, American Indians
Peek, Lori; Morrissey, Bridget; Marlatt, Holly – Journal of Family Issues, 2011
The authors explored individual and family adjustment processes among parents (n = 30) and children (n = 55) who were displaced to Colorado after Hurricane Katrina. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 23 families, this article offers an inductive model of displaced family adjustment. Four stages of family adjustment are presented in the model: (a)…
Descriptors: Emotional Adjustment, Natural Disasters, Interviews, Safety
Hancock, Kathy; Malvey, Michelle; Rastatter, Dennis – Communique, 2010
The Thompson School District recognized after the Columbine incident in the spring of 1999 that it was lacking an adequate plan for crisis response. Colorado legislation led to a mandate for having a crisis response plan so the district purchased a "canned" crisis response plan that served the needs of response in a very immediate but…
Descriptors: Crisis Intervention, Crisis Management, Workshops, State Legislation
Trump, Kenneth S. – School Administrator, 2012
Student and parent use of cell phones, text messaging and social networking through Facebook and Twitter can quickly become the enemies of a superintendent and principal. Rumors and misinformation about threats and other student safety issues that used to take hours and days to spread now goes viral in seconds. This rapid dissemination of…
Descriptors: Social Networks, Handheld Devices, Information Dissemination, Parents
Ashford, Ellie – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2006
School districts in locations across the country are now in the process of considering what their role will be in the event that the United States happens to be hit by a bird influenza pandemic. There are some school districts which have already been drafting plans covering such issues to be examined as communicating with the parents of their…
Descriptors: Communicable Diseases, School Districts, Emergency Programs, Distance Education
Jacobson, Linda; Bowman, Darcia Harris – Education Week, 2004
A flu outbreak at Madison Junior High School in Ohio prompted school officials to close the building for two days. At Webber Junior High School in Fort Collins, Colorado, where absenteeism recently hit 20 percent for two bad weeks, educators were forced to slow the pace of schoolwork so sick students did not fall behind. This article reports on…
Descriptors: Junior High Schools, Attendance, Crisis Management, Child Health
