Park Hill takes steps every day to protect students and staff. Our crisis response plan includes strategies to prevent, prepare for, respond to and recover from a crisis in our schools.
 
Prevention:
The best way to address a crisis is to prevent it ever happening at all. The Park Hill School District has several programs designed to address issues before they become crisis situations.

• Peer mediation programs to help students learn to resolve conflicts
• Bullying prevention programs
• Counselors, social workers and recovery room specialists
• Uniformed police officers serving in our high schools and middle schools as school resource officers
• Secure buildings with locked exterior doors, photo ID badges for employees and check-in procedures for visitors 

Preparation:
Park Hill's crisis planning process includes preparing students and staff for possible dangers.

• Regular drills at the schools for hazards like fires, severe weather, earthquakes, evacations, intruders, bomb threats and environmental hazards
• Regular updating of the crisis response plan
• Regular training of the crisis response teams 

Response:
In order to make our crisis response plans as effective as possible, Park Hill worked with our first responders from every police, fire, ambulance, health and mental health department with a district school in its jurisdiction.

• Extensive plans for evacuations, relocations, lock-downs and many other safety measures
• Secure online access for crisis responders to plans, maps, site hazards and necessary information about students and staff 

Recovery:
After a crisis, the district will work to help students and staff recover from the experience and get back to a sense of normalcy.