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District installs Stop the Bleed kits, adds cameras and mass-notification upgrades as part of safety work
Summary
District nurses completed 'train the trainer' Stop the Bleed training; a Story County partnership grant will place three kits in each building and one on each bus. Staff also reported technology upgrades including nearly 100 interior/exterior cameras, audio improvements and mass-notification upgrades tied to a school-safety grant.
District staff described a series of safety-related upgrades covering emergency response supplies and campus technology.
Dr. Hawkins recounted a "train-the-trainer" session attended by district nurses led by Ames Fire Department, Story County Emergency Management and Mary Greeley Medical Center. As a result of a collaborative grant, each school building will receive three Stop the Bleed kits and each bus will receive a kit; the grant also provides two training kits from Ames Fire Department. "They left that with a stop the bleed kit in hand," Dr. Hawkins said.
Earlier in the associate-superintendent report, staff summarized technology and safety upgrades shared with SIAC: interactive flat-panel displays at preschool, audio enhancements in elementary buildings, updates to projection and Chromebooks access, implementation of the GoGuardian geo-filtering system at the middle school, and "the installation of nearly 100 interior and exterior cameras" tied to the district's school-safety grant and vulnerability assessment recommendations.
Nut graf: The purchases and training are a combination of grant-funded emergency-response supplies and district technology investments intended to strengthen communication, monitoring and response capacity.
Ending: Staff said training will continue locally and some school nurses plan to train additional staff; the district noted replacement costs for kit consumables would be borne by the district but Story County Emergency Management offered support for implementation and replenishment.
