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Our team would like to thank the staff and students of Gateway Community Charters for having our team review your CSSP and conduct physical walkthroughs across your numerous sites. We have included a general template for the Comprehensive School Site Safety Plan (CSSP) as well as a general updated version of your Workplace Violence Prevention Plan (WVPP).
Below these are site reports for each of the 11 sites. You can click any of those + links and it will expand the section. Those marked "DRAFT" are awaiting final edits. We would ask each of the site principals review the physical walk-through site review for accuracy and questions. Given the massive number of sites and numerous sites with similar sounding names (and secondary nicknames), it is important to have the staff who know the sites best to read these reports.
From here, we can either schedule a zoom meeting with each site and clarify any changes or updates or communicate via track changes and emails to finalize these reports. As for the CSSPs, it is our hope to clarify which sites exactly need a stand-alone CSSP and how we can customize this for those sites and be in compliance with the March Deadline.
Below these reports there are several papers, summary training documents and checklists you may find helpful. We have also included a product list to demonstrate some of the products we suggested.
As to the requirements for Workplace Violence Prevention Plans (WVPP), we acknowledge you have an existing WVPP but wanted to share our template from the Workplace Violence Prevention Association, Feel free to add sections of our template to your existing plan or use our plan as a starting place. We have also included checklists and templates for SB 553 compliance at the bottom of this page.
5112 Arnold Avenue, Suite A, McClellan Park
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The main building contains the Central Office staff and the Virtual Academy. The Community Engagement Office is across the road from the main building. The district has approximately 30 staff, with the Virtual Academy having around 33 staff (many remote and on alternating days) and the Community Engagement program having five staff. These three locations were grouped due to their shared location and the relatively small physical space size of the Community Engagement Office and Virtual Academy.
5640 Dudley Boulevard, McClellan Park
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The Community Outreach Academy TK-5 has approximately XX staff and XXX students in attendance. It enrolls students from transitional kindergarten through 5th grade in the McClellan Park area and utilizes re-purposed buildings on a former Air Force base.
3800 Bolivar Avenue, North Highlands
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The Community Outreach Academy Middle School has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls 7-8th grade students in the North Highlands area. The school is co-located with another Gateway Charter School, Community Collaborative School.
TK-8, 3701 Stephen Drive, North Highlands
Sacramento Youth Center, 1901 Del Paso Boulevard, Sacramento
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​This report includes the Community Collaborative Charter School TK-8 (CCCS-TK8) and the Sacramento Youth Center (CCCS-SYC). There are additional references to the COA Middle School, which is essentially co-located with CCCS and shares some space but will have an independent report. CCCS-TK8 is in the North Highlands area of Sacramento and serves students from transitional kindergarten through 8th grade. The Sacramento Youth Center is in the Old North Sacramento neighborhood, serves grades 9-12 in a hybrid in-person/online setting, and offers career and technical classes.
5715 Skvarla Avenue, McClellan Park
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The Main High School has approximately 21 staff and 150 students in attendance in varying levels throughout the days of the week. Through their online core curriculum, small group electives, and Career and Technical Education, they provide their scholars a comprehensive high school experience in an intimate, small school, independent study setting.
900 Morse Ave, Sacramento
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Gateway International School has approximately XX staff and XXX students in attendance and enrolls students from kindergarten through 8th grade in the Arden-Arcade area of Sacramento and is an international baccalaureate school.
900 Grace Avenue, Sacramento
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Futures High School and The Higher Learning Academy are co-located in a facility built by the district in 2016. Futures has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls 9-12th grade students, and HLA has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls K-8th grade students. Futures High School and The Higher Learning Academy, which are co-located in a facility built by the district in 2016. Futures has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls 9-12th grade students, and HLA has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls K-8th grade students.
2945 Sacramento Ramco Street, West Sacramento
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Empowering Possibilities International Charter (EPIC) has approximately XX staff and XX students in attendance and enrolls K-8th grade students in West Sacramento.
1214 North Market Boulevard, Sacramento
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​SAVA Twin Rivers is located in the Natomas area of Sacramento and enrolls students in grades 7-12 in two buildings that are part of a mixed-use industrial/business park. Just over 20 staff members work at the facility, serving nearly 200 students in online learning, in-person classroom learning, and career/technical education.
SAVA Power Inn, 5330 Power Inn Road
SAVA Sim Center, 6207 Logan Street
SAVA La Familia, 5523 34th Street
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SAVA Sacramento City offers both virtual and in-person education. SAVA Power Inn enrolls approximately 200 7th to 12th-grade students and has 20 staff members. SAVA Sim Center enrolls 135 9th to 12th-grade students and has 30 staff members. SAVA La Familia enrolls approximately 10 9th to 12th-grade students and has 2 staff members. Each shares space with outside entities: SAVA Power Inn is in a mixed-use business/light industry park. SAVA Sim Center is in a few large rooms at a community center, and SAVA La Familia is one small room in a shared annex building of a counseling center.
3141 Dwight Road, Elk Grove
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SAVA Elk Grove offers in-person and online education to students in grades 7-12 and career/technical education, enrolls nearly 400 students. It has approximately 35 staff members. It occupies two buildings and part of a third in a mixed-use area that includes businesses and light industry.
Resources
The following checklists, articles, and handouts provide information on emergency preparedness, threat assessment, school safety and more. Feel free to download and share these with any of your school sites.
BIT/CARE Team Development Checklist
A brief checklist for the key elements of a behavioral intervention team.
Behavioral Threat Assessment Units
The National Threat Assessment
Center's guide for law enforcement forming behavioral intervention teams to prevent violence.
Compliance Tool for a Comprehensive School Safety Plan
This tool is designed to assist schools in developing and updating Comprehensive School Safety Plans (CSSPs).
Mindset: Alerts
A clear understanding of emergency language during an active assailant (shooter) event is critical to survival. Knowing the difference between rally, refuge and reunification points and understanding the fatal funnel and safer corners are essential training elements for any staff.
Mindset: Situational Awareness
Situational awareness is the concept of paying attention to your environment at varied levels of intensity based on the current level of risk. This document offers some important concepts related to situational awareness as it applies to an active assailant response.
Student Reunification Quick Reference Guide
Student reunification is a critical element of any comprehensive school site safety plan. This summary document outlines central tenets of a quality reunification plan that all staff should be trained on.
Back to School Safety Preparation
This paper summarizes the importance of key physical security measures, including schematics of the building, using clear communication practices, locking doors, and teaching the survival arc for critical incident response.
Beyond the Red Flags
This paper identifies several important concepts used to identify and prevent active assailant (shooter) attacks. From addressing threats to understanding mental health concerns, we outline the importance of a collaborative team approach to training and preparedness.
Creating a Logistics Resource Binder
This paper outlines some advice useful for school emergency preparedness staff to review prior to any critical incident, including identifying vendors, creating purchasing agreements, and ensuring medical and emergency response kits are well stocked,
Mindset: Run, Hide, Fight
This document summarizes concepts related to the FBI's Run, Hide, Fight program, as described in our Mindset active assailant program. Community members need to understand that run, hide, fight is not a progressive process and have a clear idea of how to interact with law enforcement.
Model Door and Window Classroom Numbering
Center for Safe Schools (CSS) guide to exterior and interior signage.
Two-Way Radio Use in the Educational Environment
Our partners at CTC have developed a useful guide on two-way radio communication. It offers information about these devices, guidance on how they should be used, and language that is commonly agreed upon.
Supply Examples
The following products may be helpful as school emergency preparedness staff review their site needs. Any recommendations of materials are solely for reference and do not constitute an endorsement of a product by WVPA or DPrep Safety.
"Boo-boo Kits"
Add boo-boo kits in strategic locations and include them in lockdown supply kits.
Tourniquet and Wound Packing
Most deaths in mass casualty events are due to blood loss. Staff should be trained in Stop-the-Bleed.
Security Seals
These easy-to-break seals can help secure equipment like AEDs and overdose treatment kits.
Overdose Kits
Staff should be trained in the use and application of overdose treatments.
Anti-Choking Tools
These devices can prevent choking. Staff needs to be trained on their proper use.
Fire Blankets
While not a substitute, these low-cost devices can supplement your existing fire extinguishers.
Window Pulls
In a lockdown/barricade, windows need to be covered quickly and easily.
Door Locking Devices
Work with your local fire marshal to install devices to aid in securing rooms during a lockdown.
Mobile Duress Apps
In a lockdown/barricade, windows need to be covered quickly and easily. Learn more about Duress Alarms.
Workplace Violence Prevention and Plans
The following checklists and templates are provided by WVPA and can be used for developing and implementing your workplace violence prevention plan.
California SB 553
We've formatted the full text of California SB 533 to make it easy to read. Take some time to familiarize yourself with the law.
Compliance Summary
This document provides a summary of the elements required to keep your workplace violence prevention plan in compliance with California SB 553.
Violent Incident Log - DOCX
This Word document can serve as a template for your violent incident log.
Compliance Checklist
This downloadable and fillable PDF checklist will help you track your compliance with California SB 553.
Concern Form
This downloadable and fillable PDF provides a template for your reporting form.
Violent Incident Log - PDF
This downloadable and fillable PDF provides a template for your violent incident log.
Upcoming Webinars
Our Team
Brian Van Brunt, EdD
Director of Behavior & Threat Management
Lisa Pescara-Kovach, PhD
University of Toledo
Bethany Smith
Director of Safety
Chris Taylor, PhD
InterACTT
Brian Heider
Charlie Taylor
Affiliated Consultant
Amy Murphy, PhD
Angelo State University
Chris Usher
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