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Colorado Department of Education

Parental Notification - HB18-1269

• HB18-1269 (now C.R.S. § 22-1-130), requires local education providers to notify parents if an employee or former employee is charged with certain felony offenses. The time, place and manner of those notifications are spelled out in the new law, and may require policy changes in your school or district. The CSSRC convened a multidisciplinary workgroup last winter to address similar issues, and created a toolkit with sample letters to provide guidance. The legislation passed after the workgroup had disbanded, but the toolkit was updated to reflect the changes.

• Toolkit: Parental Notification Recommendations for School Districts Pertaining to the Arrest of a Staff Member for the Sexual Exploitation of a Child (PDF)

• CDE has posted instructions for schools to follow when employees have been charged with crimes.

• Full Requirements & Frequently Asked Questions(FAQ)

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Emergency Preparedness and Response

  • The CDC Emergency Preparedness and Response website is CDC's primary source of information and resources for preparing for and responding to public health emergencies. This site continues to keep the public informed about public health emergencies and provides the information needed to protect and save lives.

  • Caring for Children in a Disaster

  • Crisis & Emergency Risk Communication (CERC)

    • Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication (Manual): Second Edition 2014

    • Crisis and Emergency Risk Communication is an approach to communicating effectively during emergencies. These principles are used by public health professionals and public information officers to provide information that helps individuals, stakeholders, and entire communities make the best possible decisions for themselves and their loved ones. CERC recognizes that during emergencies, we work under impossible time constraints and must accept the imperfect nature of our choices. CERC draws from lessons learned during public health emergencies and research in the fields of public health and emergency risk communication.

    • The CERC program consists of: training, resources and shared learning.

  • Learn How to Shelter in Place at School

  • Planning and Preparing for Emergencies

• Guidelines for the Field Triage of Injured Patients

  • Part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Injury Prevention and Control

  • Contains links for online courses, fact sheets, posters, and other tools to help decide how to handle injured people.

Colorado Department of Public Safety

• 2015 - Reference Guide for School Personnel Concerning Juveniles Who Have Committed Sexually Abusive and Offending Behavior 

  • Created by the Department of Public Safety and the Colorado Department of Education in collaboration with school districts and law enforcement and human services agencies, the Guide is designed to provide information to school administrators, teachers, and other staff regarding the supervision of juveniles who have committed sexual offenses. The document provides best practice guidelines related to the responsibilities of the school administration in developing a safe and inclusive environment and school community.

• PREPaRE School Crisis Prevention and Intervention Training

• Template for a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for School Crisis Response Mutual Aid

National Child Traumatic Stress Network (NCTSN)

• NCTSN Resources

  • The NCTSN offers both online and in-person training on a range of topics. All the resources on child trauma were developed by the NCTSN. Raising public awareness about the scope and serious impact of child traumatic stress is central to raising the standard of care and increasing access to quality services for traumatized children and their families.

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC)

• The National Center for Missing &, Exploited Children opened in 1984 to serve as the nation's clearinghouse on issues related to missing and sexually exploited children. Today NCMEC is authorized by Congress to perform 19 programs and services to assist law enforcement, families and the professionals who serve them.

• National Emergency Child Locator Center (NECLC)

  • The National Emergency Child Locator Center is operated by NCMEC and activated during Presidentially-declared disasters. Its mission is to assist in reunifying children separated from their parents or legal guardians in the aftermath of a disaster.

• Unaccompanied Minors Registry (UMR)

  • The UMR serves as a centralized and protected database where information pertaining to unaccompanied minors can be stored. It supports the ability to collect, store, report, and act on information related to children missing or lost as a result of a disaster.

• Captured on Film: Survivors of Child Sex Abuse Material Are Stuck in a Unique Cycle of Trauma

  • Survivors of child sexual abuse material live with the debilitating fear the photos and videos memorializing their sexual abuse as a child and shared on the internet will forever remain online for anyone to see.

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