Understanding and Planning for School Bomb Incidents (UPSBI) Course Description

		“The structure of the class allows the student to fully comprehend the course. Hear it, See it, Experience it, Review it, Test. Excellent!”

• Department of Homeland Security certified and sponsored — no cost to participants
• Designed for first responders and school personnel who may respond to school-based incidents
• Four-hour online course consisting of five modules — participants may start and stop the course at their convenience
• Course methodology includes study text, multimedia participant activities, and end-of-module assessments
• Participants who successfully complete four assessments may immediately print a certificate of completion (.4 CEUs)
• Multiple resources on threat assessment, school security, and critical response actions
• To enter the Respond! Web Campus, select the following link: http://respond.emrtc.nmt.edu/campus/

1. Module 1: Course Overview, introduces the course.
2. Module 2: Understanding the Threat, discusses components of a school response plan including a bomb incident response plan. The section on threat and threat assessment includes warning signs of aggressive student behavior.
3. Module 3: Responding to the Threat, describes the types of threats and defines critical actions for documenting and responding. In addition, types of incident scenarios, critical response actions for each type of scenario, and the factors to consider in determining the most appropriate evacuation action are defined and described. The concepts of time, distance, and shielding discussed in the module are applicable to a wide variety of school incidents.
4. Module 4: Recognizing Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), explains the major components of an IED and safety measures to consider with a suspicious device.
5. Module 5: Developing Preventive Measures, discusses the importance of prevention and mitigation. Prevention includes school security assessments and security measures that serve to increase security and safety. Mitigation is what schools do to reduce or eliminate risk and includes implementing critical components of a bomb response plan such as training and exercising the plan.

1. Early Warning, Timely Response, US Department of Education
2. Practical Information on Crisis Planning: A Guide for Schools and Communities, Office of Safe and Drug Free Schools of the US Department of Education
3. Guide for Preventing and Responding to School Violence, International Association of Chiefs of Police
4. Threat Assessment in Schools: A Guide to Managing Threatening Situations and to Creating Safe School Climates, US Secret Service and US Department of Education
5. Multiple reporting forms for customization by individual districts or schools

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Interested in teaching this class to your local first responder or educational community?

To qualify as a trainer, you must satisfactorily complete this course and one of New Mexico Tech's operations level courses — either Incident Response to Terrorist Bombing or Prevention and Response to Suicide Bombings in Socorro, NM.

• Email: respond@emrtc.nmt.edu
• USPS mail: 801 Leroy Place, Socorro, NM 87801

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• To enter the Respond! Web Campus select the following link: http://respond.emrtc.nmt.edu/campus/