Schools Revise Lockdown Plans with Help from Sunset Hills Company

SchoolReach, a provider of automated notification and emergency messaging solutions for K-12 schools, is working to help school administrators reevaluate their lockdown plans in the wake of recent troubling events.

“In light of the horrific school shooting that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as other planned incidents of school violence around the country that were stopped before they occurred, we wanted to make sure that school administrators were aware of our lockdown planning and communications resources,” said Joe Palacios, CEO of SchoolReach parent company GroupCast, LLC.

Over the past few years, SchoolReach has worked to produce best practice guides on lockdown-related topics with both safety experts and school officials who have experienced lockdown situations.

The company’s expertise in mass communications and its consultation with safety professionals helped SchoolReach produce its “Lockdown Notification Best Practices” guide.  The guide provides recommendations on how to communicate with students, staff, parents, and community members during and after a lockdown.

The company’s “Lockdown Scenarios and Procedures” guide provides recommendations from safety industry experts on how to handle “intruder inside” lockdowns and non-intruder lockdowns.

SchoolReach, a provider of automated notification and emergency messaging solutions for K-12 schools, is working to help school administrators reevaluate their lockdown plans in the wake of recent troubling events.

“In light of the horrific school shooting that took place in Newtown, Connecticut, as well as other planned incidents of school violence around the country that were stopped before they occurred, we wanted to make sure that school administrators were aware of our lockdown planning and communications resources,” said Joe Palacios, CEO of SchoolReach parent company GroupCast, LLC.

Over the past few years, SchoolReach has worked to produce best practice guides on lockdown-related topics with both safety experts and school officials who have experienced lockdown situations.

The company’s expertise in mass communications and its consultation with safety professionals helped SchoolReach produce its “Lockdown Notification Best Practices” guide.  The guide provides recommendations on how to communicate with students, staff, parents, and community members during and after a lockdown.

The company’s “Lockdown Scenarios and Procedures” guide provides recommendations from safety industry experts on how to handle “intruder inside” lockdowns and non-intruder lockdowns.

“We’ve always provided these resources to school administrators for free, because we want children to be safe in their schools,” said Palacios.  “Over 1,000 school leaders around the country have downloaded our school lockdown resources in recent days, and we are happy that the information is providing value to them.”

St. Louis educators who are interested in downloading the free lockdown best practice guides can do so here:

 http://www.schoolreach.com/school-lockdown-guides.html

SchoolReach is used by more than 60 percent of the public and private schools in St. Louis.