Our Services
Review and Consultation
Does your educational institution have questions about developing effective school safety solutions, or the effectiveness of current practices already in place? Do you need an expert’s advice on identifying best practices in a specific area? Let us work with your leadership teams, school boards, and committees to review school safety strategies in place and provide recommendations based on research, experience, and proven results. We can review a specific area of safety or provide a comprehensive review of your entire safety and emergency management program.
Development and Implementation
We understand that whether we assist in identifying areas for improvement through review and consultation or not, the hard part is always development and implementation of the specific safety solution. In other words, knowing what you need to do and having the resources and knowledge to actually do it may differ. We know that every educational environment is unique, so we carefully develop strategies, including policy, procedures, programs, and environmental changes, that will work for you. We then implement these strategies alongside you to ensure you are getting the intended outcome. Our goal is to develop a cost-effective and practical solution that can be sustained over time in your environment.
Research and Grant Writing
Sometimes, understanding your specific safety and security needs can require gathering of additional information from a variety of sources. It can also require additional resources, especially funding. Our research and grant writing services can assist in both of these areas. We can work alongside staff to gather the data needed to make informed decisions about safety and security strategies. This includes developing a research plan that outlines what data is needed and how/where we will get it, designing the most effective data collection instruments (surveys, interview, etc.), collecting data from various stakeholder groups, and analyzing those results so they mean something in relation to the problem you are trying to solve. Our research efforts can also extend into working with you to develop and submit a grant proposal to local, state, federal, and non-profit opportunities. We can work with you to conceptualize a project idea, develop the proposal, and/or implement and manage the grant when awarded.
Training and Presentations
A major component of any school safety strategy must be training. Without training, most strategies will not be successful because your staff will not feel confident in implementing their role in the strategy. Let’s us help you design a training program that supports a specific safety strategy, or your entire safety and emergency management program. We will work with you to determine what level of training each level of your institution needs, the best way to deliver the training, and the content to support that training. We can also deliver that training for you as well. Additionally, sometimes you just need a speaker to come and present on a topic to the school board, PTA, during staff development, or a conference/summit. Let one of our subject matter experts deliver a powerful and engaging presentation that is customized to your audience.
We provide these services and others in a number of content specific areas related to school safety and security. Click below to learn more about the content areas we focus and specialize in.
About Us
School Safety Solutions is a consulting firm that is truly based on research, experience, and results. With over a decade of experience working in academia, state government, and with local school districts in the areas of school safety, we have a unique understanding of how to take proven safety concepts and strategies and implement them in an educational environment. We pride ourselves on using research and data-driven solutions and approaches that have shown to work in the real world. To cover the broad spectrum of what school safety and security is today, we leverage partnerships with a network of subject matter experts in different areas, to bring you one firm that can comprehensively assess and provide solutions to school safety.