Best Practices in Emergency Notification

Lockdown On Campus: Lessons Learned from Ferrum College

In February of 2008, a worker at Ferrum College spotted a man with a gun who then disappeared. The school immediately issued a lockdown using their emergency notification system. As police searched for the individual, the school sent multiple alerts throughout the day to ease the tensions of students, faculty and staff. In this free 45-minute webinar, learn:
What happened and how it unfolded
How they handled the situation
What students had to say about the day-long ordeal
What they would do differently
Question & Answer session with attendees to follow


SPEAKERS
Lee King
Vice President of Institutional Advancement
Ferrum College, Virginia

Chip Phillips
Director of Emergency Services and Safety
Ferrum College, Virginia

Mary Alice Whisenant
Director of Human Resources & Campus Safety
Ferrum College, Virginia

Suzie Kelly
Lead Designer, Public Relations
Ferrum College, Virginia

HOST
Steve Hardiman
Webinar Moderator

Emergency Notification Systems 101: Presented by Penn State

Penn State adopted an Emergency Notification System (ENS) during the summer of 2006 and has used it many times. This webinar will take a multifaceted view of the ENS paradigm and review all the aspects of implementing one. In this free 60-minute webinar, you will learn:
Considerations when selecting a notification vendor
Identifying who is authorized to send emergency alerts
Training your system users to send alerts
Developing your communications plan to roll out the system
The importance of testing
Type of alerts to send and when to send them
How to manage your dispatch center after an alert is sent
The importance of a joining a relevant user group
Question & Answer session with attendees to follow


SPEAKER
Annemarie Mountz
Assistant Director of Public Information
Penn State University, Pennsylvania

HOST
Steve Hardiman, Webinar Moderator

Issuing an APB from an Emergency Notification System: Lessons Learned from Millersville University

In March of 2008, Millersville University police issued an All Points Bulletin (APB) for a wanted individual. They used their Emergency Notification System (ENS) to send the APB to the entire campus community. Within 15 minutes, the individual was found and apprehended. In this free 45-minute podcast, learn:
How Millersville University handled the situation
Why they decided to use their ENS
The content of the alerts and who received them
Discover what they would do differently
Question & Answer session with attendees to follow


SPEAKERS
Janet Kacskos
Director of Communications
Millersville University, Pennsylvania

Dr. Aminta Breaux
Vice President of Student Affairs
Millersville University, Pennsylvania

Pat Weidinger
Director of Safety
Millersville University, Pennsylvania

HOST
Steve Hardiman,  Moderator

Managing Back-to-Back Hurricanes: Lessons Learned from Delgado Community College

New Orlean's largest college tries to anticipate and mitigate the effects of Hurricane Gustav & Hurricane Ike. Learn how they prepared, what happened, and how they used emergency notifications to enhance their public safety efforts. In this exciting free 45-minute podcast, you will see and learn:
The challenges in communicating emergency information with a mobile student population across seven disparate campuses
The importance of pre-implementation planning and system testing
Selling the solution to college staff and students
Campus hurricane emergency procedures put to the test with Hurricane's Gustav & Ike
A layered approach to campus emergency procedures
Question & Answer session with attendees to follow


SPEAKER Thomas Lovince Chief Information Officer Delgado Community College, New Orleans, Louisiana

HOST Steve Hardiman,  Moderator