About This Webinar

Every school community includes students, staff, and visitors with unique needs. Yet too often, safety planning does not fully account for the special considerations required to protect these individuals. 

Today, approximately 7.5 million students receive special education services, and over 40% of school-aged children live with at least one chronic health condition. These numbers underscore a critical gap in school safety: without inclusive, individualized emergency planning, our most vulnerable community members face greater risk. 

Safe and Sound Schools’ Especially Safe program addresses a wide range of needs — from developmental disabilities and communication challenges to medical needs, mobility issues, and more — and empowers school safety teams to appropriately plan for, teach, and train individuals to stay safe during emergencies. 

Don’t miss your opportunity to join the Safe and Sound team and learn: 

  • How the TEAMS framework helps multidisciplinary teams build personalized safety plans for students and staff with unique needs 

  • Strategies to assess and address sensory, medical, communication, and behavioral needs in emergency planning  

  • How to teach and train safety skills in a developmentally and ability-appropriate way 

  • The role of inclusive safety planning in empowering vulnerable individuals and building resilience before, during, and after emergencies  

Can't make it to the live session? Register anyway, and we'll send you the recording! 

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Who Should Attend:

This webinar is open to all who are interested in learning more about our Especially Safe program, including:  

  • Educators – PS-12 teachers, paraprofessionals, and special education teachers 

  • Administrators and School Community Stakeholders – principals, assistant principals, directors, assistant superintendents, superintendents, and school board members 

  • School and Other Mental Health Professionals – school counselors, school psychologists, school social workers, and substance abuse specialists 

  • First Responders – safety and security specialists/officers, SROs, law enforcement, and EMTs 

  • Families 

Meet the Presenters

MICHELE GAY

Founder and Executive Director,
Safe and Sound Schools 

DR. JOE MCKENNA

Senior Director of Projects, Programs & Training, Safe and Sound Schools

BEN FERNANDEZ

Director of Mental and Behavioral Health Programs, Safe and Sound Schools