- Spokane Public Schools
- Campus Safety Model
Campus Safety Model
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Campus Safety Specialists put the care, welfare, and safety of our SPS community first, while building trust and legitimacy by embracing diversity and inclusivity.
Campus Safety Specialists
- Focus on social-emotional wellness of students
- Build positive working relationships with students, staff, families and community members
- Serve as mentor & positive role model
- Assist with de-escalating and diffusing conflicts between students
- Assist with Restorative Practices as needed
- Assist with facility supervision and physical security of property
- Supervise campus and surrounding areas to ensure that students and staff are provided a safe and secure learning environment
- Patrol school buildings and grounds
- Monitor parking area and inform school administration of illegally parked cars, careless driving on school premises, or other concerns related to vehicles on campus
- Check and report any hazardous conditions, disturbances, or suspicious circumstances
- Conduct site (physical) safety assessments to determine facility security concerns
- Assist with camera system use
- Train staff members on the use of SPS security system
- Assist with access control & single point of entry
- Assist with the supervision of students at all areas of the campus needing direct supervision, including bus loading areas or other areas under the control of the district
- Assist with supervision of afterschool activities and event coverage
- Provide documentation for input into a central reporting system for property damage resulting from burglary, vandalism, and arson whereby documented cost factors are available covering each incident
- Respond to intrusion alarms on site during work hours
- Advise and train staff personnel in security/safety procedures and laws involving SPS
- Support critical incident management
- Assist building administrators in emergency response and planning
- Assist with required school drills and exercises
- Ensure site maintains a current plan and support training staff members with appropriate actions to be taken in given situations
- Assist building administration with action to be taken at scene of incidents and emergency situations
- Assist in directing proper personnel to location of incidents
- Assist with school safety meetings
Campus Response Specialist
These CSS staff maintain safety in the after-school hours and evening.
Serve with Honor • Operate with Integrity • Strive for Excellence
- Focus on social-emotional wellness of students
Keeping SPS Safe
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Serving all students with equity and professionalism to ensure excellence is provided to everyone.
SPS Campus Safety Department
Responsibilities include:
- building relationships, mentoring and community outreach,
- reviewing incidents determined to be on school district property and/or buses,
- providing emergency communication and coordination, management of crisis plans, and training of Campus Safety Specialists in coordination with fire departments and local law enforcement agencies,
- monitoring the security of district facilities.
Safety Improvements
The members of the Campus Safety department are always looking for ways to improve. Take a look at some of the things we are doing now.
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​Crisis Prevention Institute
In August 2021, the Campus Safety team took part in the Crisis Prevention Institute for training on non-violent crisis intervention, which featured:
- various verbal & non-verbal de-escalation techniques that can be used during a crisis
- multiple preventive strategies to use to prevent a crisis
- how to increase empathy awareness
- self-reflection on what you can control in a crisis
- how to keep yourself & others safe after encountering someone engaging in risky behavior
- Principles of Disengagement
- Holding skills as they apply to lower, medium, and higher-level risk behaviors that may compromise safety.
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Campus Safety Leadership Development Academy
All CSS receive training on:
- Understanding others
- de-escalation strategies
- communication skills
- customer service
- cultural competence and racial bias
- conflict management
- sensitivity awareness
- Helping others
- Americans with Disabilities Act
- Discrimination Awareness in the Workplace
- FERPA: Confidentiality of Records
- Workplace Bullying: Awareness and Prevention
- Leadership Foundations
- Defending, perceiving and communicating with others
- Restorative practices
- Being culturally responsive
- CPI (Crisis Prevention Intervention)
- Understanding others
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Additional Safety Measures
- Each school has a Single Secure Point of Entry, allowing office staff to make sure everyone entering the building has a good reason for being there
- New video and surveillance equipment
- Our Visitor Badge Pass system checks visitors' names against the Washington state sex offender database, in addition to a "restricted individual" database. Restricted individuals include those who are not allowed on school property, or who have a court order prohibiting their contact with an employee or student.
- ZPass and Bus Tracker are available to families of students who ride the bus so they can know when their child gets on and off the bus, and also where their bus is at any given moment
- School windows have been affixed with shatter resistant film.