Testimonials

FEMA’s Strategic Foresight Initiative - 2050 Final Report. “Theme 1: Whole of Society Approach to Building Resilient Communities; Theme 2: Flexible Emergency Management Built on Persistent Partnerships; Theme 3: Use Technology to Solve the Right Problems; Theme 4: Creative Transformation of the Workforce; and Theme 5: Cultivating Community, Trust, and Self-Sufficiency.”

Protecting Our Students, Inc. "U.S. spends billions annually on K-12 school safety. Yet no standardized measurement framework exists. Every school approaches safety differently — measured inconsistently, managed reactively, and understood subjectively. What can't be measured can't be improved." - ©2026

American Society of Civil Engineers. School Infrastructure Report Card “D+” across Public Safety/Resilience, Capacity/Condition, and Operations/Maintenance. The same grade was awarded in 2025, 2021 and 2017.

U.S. Secret Service. “The rapid expansion of Behavioral Threat Assessment & Management (BTAM) has (…) introduced significant variability in terms of the models schools are using, operational practices, and training, which may undermine the consistency and effectiveness of these efforts across schools. To fully realize the potential of BTAM as a cornerstone of school safety, schools and supporting agencies should prioritize the development and dissemination of evidence-based frameworks, standardized procedures, and robust training opportunities.” -©2025

NIH National Library of Medicine. “Existing research frameworks tend to focus on formal structures and doctrine (e.g., ICS and NIMS); however organizational processes that underlie Incident Management have not been systematically assessed and synthesized into a coherent conceptual framework.” - ©2022, Clark-Ginsberg, A., et al., Conceptual Framework for Understanding Incident Management Systems During Public Health Emergencies

Partner Alliance for Safer Schools. “(…) you’re as keenly aware as we are that there are no national codes, regulations, rules or even guidelines for significant school incidents such as active shooters. - ©2023

SchoolSafety.gov [ED, DOJ, HHS and DHS]. “While there isn't a universal school safety plan, you can use the Safety Readiness Tool to get common actions that you should consider to create a safe school environment.” – ©2023
‍ ‍*Just a 10-question, multiple choice survey was provided with this quote.

“A holistic and community-based approach to school safety can empower everyone to take action and play a role in creating safer schools and communities.” – ©2023
‍ ‍*Only an infographic and 1-pager flyers accompanied this quote.

Campus Security & Life Safety. “There is not yet a standardized code for building security (…).” - ©2023, Bowman, D., Designing Safer Schools: Considerations for Increasing School Security, Campus Security Today

Campus Safety Magazine. “NIMS and the ICS are not filled with common terminology. In fact, there are classes upon classes that individuals take to be able to speak the language.” Problems mentioned: difficult to teach, forced to rely on just-in-time training, plans that collect dust, unworkable forms, too many acronyms. - ©2023, Sears, J., Dir. of EM & Public Safety, ISU, How Universities Can Make ICS Work for Them

The Honorable Deanne Criswell, Former FEMA Administrator. “Our mission has not changed, but our operating environment has. Emergency Managers – at every level of government – are being asked to do more, respond more, and solve more complex problems.” Between 2015 and 2021, FEMA experienced… “an unprecedented 346% increase in the number of days FEMA personnel were deployed to disaster operations annually”. - ©2023

MSDHS Public Safety Commission. “Florida schools lack an effective, consistent, highly functioning and sustainable threat management system in all 67 school districts. Today, we have 67 districts doing their own thing.” - ©2022 [So called gaps in the CSTAG program gave rise to Florida’s statewide threat management portal.]

Former Executive Director of Security & Safety, Texas City Independent School District, Matranga, M. “…same tactics, techniques & procedures used over 30 years… frankly, they are not working. Those methods were developed for a different problem, in a different time period in history ”. - ©2020

U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation. "The public and private sector are inextricably linked and must have shared situational awareness and the ability to synchronize their respective efforts to be successful.” The article notes, “prior response and recovery efforts were often too stove-piped to share timely information, too slow to consult, and as a result, often too late to synchronize stabilization efforts”. - ©2019, Griffin, S.M., Disaster Tech Innovations: GPU-Accelerated Analytics for Decision-Making & Situational Awareness

Report to Congress – Gov’t Accountability Office. "There is currently no systematic way for federal agencies to share information about resources for college emergency preparedness." - ©2018, Emergency Mgt.; Federal Gov’t Could Improve Dissemination of Resources to Colleges

U.S. Department of Commerce. “No objective, standard, science-based method exists that can assess resilience on a community scale. (…) a community-centric science-based methodology, model, or decision-support tool to enhance community resilience is not available.” - ©2016 (updated ©2021), National Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST)

Report Commissioned by NIJ. “State government (…) has not established uniform preventative school security design standards”. “All-in-one” applications were determined to be of highest priority by urban, suburban, and rural schools. Findings highlight that “fragmented”, outdated, school safety initiatives should be replaced. - ©2016, RAND Corp., The Role of Technology in Improving K–12 School Safety

National Planning System “does not present a true system”. “There is no attempt to integrate the various planning frameworks or various national plans into a cohesive framework. There is no mention of the relationship of response planning to continuity of operations planning. There is no theoretical basis for planning or planning methodology that builds on the vast amount of research done on planning. - ©2016, Holdeman, E., FEMA Releases the National Planning System. So What?, Government Technology

Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). The Emergency Services Sector is charge with assuring continuity of operations for itself, and in large part, protecting the remaining 15 U.S. Critical Infrastructure Sectors. Yet, there is no organized, private sector program which proactively coordinates a unified effort to assist in critical infrastructure resilience and continuity of operations for the nation’s first responders. The lack of such a program “directly affects preparedness, planning, response, efficiency and effectiveness, and recovery”. - ©2015, ©2016

Sandy Hook Advisory Commission Final Report. Recommends changes to infrastructure in areas of: “design, operations, law enforcement, mental and behavioral health services, response and recovery tactics, and resiliency programs”. - ©2015

Homeland Security Affairs Journal. “Growing strong working relationships between emergency managers and the private sector is a good business decision for everyone – it helps us (the Government) better serve survivors, rebuild our communities, and boost local economies.” - ©2012, Busch, N., Givens, A., Public-Private Partnerships in Homeland Security; Opportunities & Challenges [excerpt from Fugate, C., Former FEMA Administrator & FL DEM Director]

Military Resources in Emergency Management. “Emergency Managers should have a basic understanding of military resources, capabilities and limitations. The role of the military should be considered in campus emergency and disaster plans, trainings and joint exercise programs.” - ©2011, FEMA IS-75

National Center on Safe Supportive Learning Environments. “Research shows that when schools, parents, families, and communities work together, students earn higher grades, attend school more regularly, stay in school, and are more motivated.” - ©2011, Family-School Partnerships

Report to the President on Issues Raised by the Virginia Tech Tragedy. “Integrate comprehensive all-hazards emergency management planning for schools into overall local and state emergency planning.” “Communicate emergency management plans to all school officials, school service workers, parents, students, and first responders. Regularly practice and revise plans.” - ©2007, HHS, DOJ, and ED

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