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welcome to the Bethel Park School District I'm

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James Walsh superintendent we're

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here today to share with you the

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people programs

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the philosophies that comprise the

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overall School Safety and Security measures

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that we've come to Value each

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and every day to ensure our students

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and staff have a safe and orderly environment

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in which to learn work

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and grow go take his vital

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to the well-being of our school Community parents

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need to feel secure in knowing that when their children

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leave home to come to school they can have peace

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of mind knowing they will be safe by

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implementing the various strategies such as technology

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Solutions Community Partnerships active

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supervision and a positive School

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culture we can create a safer

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and more secure learning environment for everyone

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involved

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Bethel

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Park School District

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is committed to maintaining a safe environment to learn

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as well as work in Security in the district

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schools has and will continue to be a priority as

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is evidenced in the enhanced measure the district

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taken will continue to take those with

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physical security as well as policy we

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have to in order to ensure people

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entering the building go through a check-in process

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with our campus manager and Raptors screenings

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if going into classroom

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students are trained in our multi-hazard Emergency

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Operations plan in the beginning middle

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and end of the year we practiced

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various safety drills throughout the year and review presentations

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in order to keep the information fresh

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in our minds District

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stop David's multi out her plan which encompasses responses

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to emergencies it could rise in

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an educational setting officers are stationed

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throughout the district and also utilize the district's please

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please vehicle patrol District facilities we

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are very visible

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other key to safety so in the mornings

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myself my security guard my resource officer

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or we're always available in the mornings I stand right here

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at the door and watch the kids as they come in greet

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them many days with the counselors and I think

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that's really where where everything starts as far as

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because the kids csac that the resource

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officer and they have that opportunity to

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talk to us this relationship we

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have with those kids we can see them coming in and we

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know something's wrong and that's where we start the conversation as

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soon as they come through the doors the district is all

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continually receiving and sharing personal safety

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information with his law enforcement Partners the

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district also maintains a partnership with Bethel

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Park Police Department with District officers

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working and training together

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we

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pride ourselves in focusing on relationships

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the relationships are as

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important as making sure that the building

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is secure relationship speech

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staff members relationships between students

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and relationships between our

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parents and our community members because

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I think that's the number one thing you can do to

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really get in front of issues in addition

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to the safety procedures the social emotional

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well-being of our students is also a priority through

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the second step program our

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students are introduced to skills for learning empathy

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emotional management problem

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solving and bullying we look at our framework

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as a multi-tiered system of support we

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look at the things that we do for all students

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and all students do have access to their

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school counselors and to their epic social

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workers at the elementary level all

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play through the high school we've developed the teen's

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room at the high school as well to help support student

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needs physical

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and psychological safety

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by offering our services to every student

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in our school we hope to create

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a shift in school climate that promotes positive emotional

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well-being and a trusting supportive

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environment relationship-building

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that we do here is really far

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to ensure that students feel safe

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and secure with their peers in the building and

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feel safe and secure with their peers and

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with the adults in the building to relay any issues that they

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have it anytime as a part of our second

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tier of support we run the student assist

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program that looks at students with high

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risk factors their identifying

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a need for support within our schools and we

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triage those supports to the Epic staff

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to the school counselors and to the site base

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therapist for the appropriate level of support

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we have the Student Assistance Program which

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is a really nice program that we started here a few years ago

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this year we sent about 35

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students through the Student Assistance Program and we were

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able to get a lot of those students helping different ways

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weather just be in-house help

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with our counselors or some of them might have ended

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up. Working with a therapist and different things outside

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of school so we are able to really

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look at what's going on with our

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students and take the time to get to know them so

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that's where the relationships are key so if you hear

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open you see something you're worried about anything

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at all don't be afraid to come speak to anyone

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in the school to your families and also don't

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be afraid to utilize our safe to say program

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which is run through the state my experience

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when teachers are broadly supportive of one another

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resonates with everybody in the building other staff

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members and students can see how we look out for each other

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the byproduct of forming this van is a children

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feel safe in their classrooms knowing that we are all working

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together knowing that we can rely on any

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college offers a sense of reassurance

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text shannan supports

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our

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administrative team staff and students have

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done a remarkable job and making Bethel Park School

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as safe as possible and we well

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understand that clear and timely communication

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is an essential component in that

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process school safety is a collective effort

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that requires the involvement of all stakeholders

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including staff

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parents and the broader Community

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School Safety is more than the words

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simply written on a page school safety

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is about the invisible inside the building is

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being accessible to students and everyone being accountable

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to the expectations of those safety plan

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when it comes to school safety I think the most important

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thing for everyone to recognize is that it's a

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partnership that the partnership with Administration

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teachers families we are

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all open to hearing any concerns

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with important that we act on those concerns

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like we have things that are going on and it's

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like you would just need to make sure that the kids are safe they

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say depends on us there

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are four big ideas that I

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hope you draw from this look into the Safety

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and Security of the Bethel Park School District

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number one that

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Safety and Security are Paramount to

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our everyday operation it's

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on our minds on second

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that there's some really talented caring

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and attentive individual

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who focused each and every day on

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the student staff safety

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third that we have those tools

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and Technology to ensure the

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buildings are the most safe and

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campuses are the most secure that we

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an app and forth finally

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most importantly that Safety

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and Security is more than just these locks

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and tools and armed security guards

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it's also about the relationships

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that we establish with our students and staff

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to know each other so well that

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when someone's having a bad day we can swoop

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in and support them and make sure everybody feels

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safe secure and Thrive

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here in the Bethel Park school so

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it's a community effort

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all of us together with our arms locked to

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ensure that the everyday experience

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in Bethel Park is the safe and

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secure one thank you for doing your part