Some of the key features that make StaySafe both unique and invaluable to every American College and University are:
- On-Site Assessment - StaySafe provides you with a thorough on-site assessment of campus leadership, behavioral health issues, current policies, procedures, assets, vulnerabilities, and key people who will play a role preparing for, and responding to, a crisis.
- Quantitative Level of Preparedness (QLP) - StaySafe's proprietary Quantitative Level of Preparedness (QLP) report rates your institution's level of crisis readiness, including:
Preparing for outside support - how does the University respond to outside volunteers and what are its protocols for working with the local Red Cross, Salvation Army, etc?
Briefing emergency resources - has the University familiarized fire, police and state emergency personnel with its behavioral crisis response protocols?
Briefing its publics - how does the University brief staff, faculty and the public when there has been a crisis or tragic loss and is there a President's command post for family debriefings, services and media conferences?
Behavioral Health Resources - what are the institution's behavioral health resources and how are they deployed?
These are but a few of the factors considered in developing your QLP. Together, we will evaluate current levels of preparedness, as well as needed improvements, and your StaySafe representative will meet annually with your leadership to review progress.
- Behavioral Health Crisis Preparedness Manual – A highly customized and detailed manual functions as a tool to define actions, responsibilities and protocols for advance preparedness and organized response to a behavioral health crisis on campus. Just a few of the subjects covered in your Manual will include:
Policies and Procedures – guidance in forming a Behavioral Crisis Management Team, in determining specific actions and procedures during a crisis and providing behavioral health services.
Fitness for Study/Duty – recommended protocols and procedures for the evaluation of students or staff posing a danger to themselves or others.
Behavioral Crisis Management Team – recommended University crisis team members, including the roles, responsibility and actions each will assume during an event.
Physical Site Overview – identifies location requirements needed to address behavioral health issues during an active campus crisis.
Community involvement – guidance in working with local emergency responders, law enforcement, hospitals and other community resources.
A full-day, on-site review and training session is provided to familiarize faculty and staff with the specific details, procedures and responsibilities outlined in the Behavioral Health Crisis Preparedness Manual.
- Fitness for Study/Duty Evaluation – Colleges and Universities may find it difficult to identify students, campus staff, or even faculty who may pose a threat to themselves or to others. StaySafe offers a process to help you determine a student’s fitness for study or a faculty member’s fitness for duty. If necessary, experts can be recommended and retained to conduct an independent, third party psychological evaluation.
- Crisis Web Sites – StaySafe will prepare – in advance – a crisis-ready Web site for your institution that can be activated should your site go down. The site provides parents, family and students with vital links to information, phone numbers and more.
Event-specific site – Should an actual tragic incident or crisis occur on your campus, StaySafe will also add a crisis-specific Web site to go online with the vital information you need to disperse.
- Crisis Intervention Management Services – StaySafe guarantees access of up to 20 hours of crisis management support when a major crisis or disaster occurs. These services cover:
Putting your Behavioral Health Crisis Preparedness Plan into action – One phone call immediately summons your StaySafe team of behavioral health experts on-site within hours to assess the level of support needed and manage integration with any existing Employee Assistance Program (EAP).
Critical incident debriefings – Organized debriefings, usually conducted within 24 to 72 hours of the incident, are critical in reducing trauma-related symptoms.
On-site defusing – Immediate counseling and support for individuals who were directly exposed to the campus incident – usually within eight hours of the event.
Teledefusing – When face-to-face individual defusing is not warranted or practical, counseling, support and debriefing is provided by telephone within eight hours of the event.
On-site grief and loss counseling – Counseling for groups or individuals by bereavement specialists following a sudden, unexpected death.
- Prevention Initiatives – Expert sources for comprehensive behavioral wellness services. These resources, along with our behavioral health expertise, help you foster the overall mental health of students, faculty and staff.
- Achieve Solutions from ValueOptions – Additionally, ValueOptions lets you provide students, faculty and staff with access to a wealth of behavioral wellness resources and services online through Achieve Solutions, which can be branded under the College’s or University’s name.
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