Best Practice Considerations for Schools in Active Shooter and Other Armed Assailant Drills
The National Association of School Psychologists and the National Association of School Resource Officers have partnered to provide this guidance on Best Practice Considerations for Schools in Active Shooter and Other Armed Assailant Drills (pdf). Safe and Sound Schools: A Sandy Hook Initiative and the ALiCE Training Institute contributed. This document provides guidance on the important factors schools must take into account when considering and conducting armed assailant drills.
Neither this document nor the author organizations, NASP and NASRO, endorse a specific approach to armed assailant training or any particular training program. As stated in the document, we believe that lockdown is an essential component, if not the foundation, of any such training and that the hierarchy of training and education offers effective options for how to provide training.
NASP Contacts
- Kathy Cowan, Director of Communications, kcowan@naspweb.org
- Kelly Vaillancourt Strobach, Director of Government Relations, kvaillancourt@naspweb.org
Author Organizations
- National Association of School Psychologists (NASP): www.nasponline.org
- National Association of School Resource Officers (NASRO): www.nasro.org
Contributing Organizations
- Safe and Sound Schools: A Sandy Hook Initiative: www.safeandsoundschools.org
- ALiCE Training Institute: www.alicetraining.com
Endorsing Organizations
National
- American School Counselor Association: www.schoolcounselor.org
- National Association of Elementary School Principals: www.naesp.org
- National Association of Secondary School Principals: www.principals.org
- National PTA: www.pta.org
- School Social Work Association of America: www.sswaa.org
State
- Arizona School Resource Officers Association: www.asroa.org
- Association of School Psychologists of Pennsylvania: www.aspponline.org
- Kentucky Association of Psychology in the Schools: www.kapsonline.org
- North Dakota Association of School Psychologists: www.ndasp.org
- Ohio School Psychologists Association: www.ospaonline.org
- The Alabama Association of School Resource Officers: www.taasro.org