This presentation is from the National Center for Campus Public Safety’s webinar, Planning for the Safety of Minors: Routine and Emergency Situations. Anne H. Franke, president of Wise Results, LLC, brings attention to an issue that often goes unnoticed. Look around campus and you’ll notice lots of kids. They come without parents, particularly during the summer, to attend camps and academic enrichment programs. Many colleges and universities run year-round tutoring, both on- and off-campus, K-12 school partnerships, and other programs. Most institutions develop their safety and emergency protocols to meet the needs of college students and adult visitors. This webinar explores key questions surrounding the safety of minors on campus and provides practical options for resolving them.

1. The National Center for Campus Public Safety
Planning for the Safety of
Minors: Routine and
Emergency Situations
May 17, 2016
Ann H. Franke, Esq.
Wise Results LLC
Washington DC
annfranke@Verizon.net

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Who Are All These Kids Running Around?
Who’s Responsible For Them?
Not Me, I Hope!
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Today’s Program
1. Institutional Approaches to Child Safety
2. Challenges in Emergency Planning
& Response
3. Abuse & Neglect Reporting
4. Children Separated from Parent
or Program
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1. INSTITUTIONAL
APPROACHES TO CHILD
SAFETY
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Your institution may have a centralized,
decentralized, or “wild west” approach
to child safety.
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What youth programs are occurring
on your campus today?
Off campus?
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More Questions to Ask
• Who’s got contact info for parent or
guardian of each child? Who should have
it?
• What do we expect of outside groups that
rent our facilities for youth programs?
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Some Compliance Issues
Federal Law
• Clery Act
• FERPA for enrolled
minors
• Civil rights, e.g.,
– Disability
– Harassment, assault
– Age discrimination
• OSHA
State Law
• Camp licensing
• Health & safety
• Staffing ratios
• Transportation
• Emergency planning
• Abuse & neglect reporting
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2.
EMERGENCY PLANNING &
RESPONSE
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Within hours of Hurricane Ike’s landfall in Texas,
San Antonio officials had compiled precise
staGsGcs about their evacuee situaGon. They knew
the city would need to care for 5,303 people (561
of whom had special medical needs) and 642 pets.
… But there was one key group for which they had
no figures: children.
Newsweek, “Overlooked: The LiXlest Evacuees” (October
6, 2008)
hXps://conferences.wsu.edu/forms/emergencyprep/presentaGons11/d1.pdf

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Have a comprehensive emergency plan
blending higher ed with principles for
camps and K-12 schools.
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Kids’ Needs in Emergencies
• Supervision
• Emotional support
• Communication
• Nourishment
• Shelter – cribs, playpens
• Diapers!
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Sample State Requirements
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Emergency Communica/on System Required
Each camp shall have a means of emergency
communicaGon so that all campers and staff
recognize it as such and will elicit a pre-
determined response.
Such system may include but not necessarily
be limited to a public address system, triangle,
bell or voice.
Emergency Procedures
On an annual basis, the site operator
shall submit to the local health officer…
emergency procedures specific to the
locaGon.

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Check your state laws on camps.
www.acacamps.org/resource-
library/state-laws-regulations
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3. ABUSE & NEGLECT
REPORTING
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Are you a mandatory reporter of child
abuse & neglect in your state?
At your institution?
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Suspicions to be reported
• Child abuse
• Child neglect
• Of person under the state’s age of
majority
Reports of abuse & neglect in the home
are more likely than in college program.
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Find your state law on abuse
& neglect reporting at the
Child Welfare Information Gateway.
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www.childwelfare.gov

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Let’s Get Operational.
Reporting Suspicions
of Child Abuse
Within institution
To state government
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Decide in advance who would conduct
a forensic interview of a child.
Interview should be:
Child-centered
Developmentally sensitive
Unbiased
Legally defensible
TRAINED interviewer!
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Integrate children into campus public
safety SOP’s.
• Temporary custody of kids
• Domestic abuse investigation
• Transport of kids
• Care for kids who are under custody of
victim or suspect
• Child abuse reporting
• Protecting suspected child abuse victims
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4. CHILDREN SEPARATED
FROM PARENT OR PROGRAM
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Releasing a child to an unauthorized
adult is dangerous.
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Plan for lost kids at graduation
and other public events.
• Develop procedures
• Train ushers
• No adult alone with kid in private
– Two adults
– Open-sided tent
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25. The National Center for Campus Public Safety
Develop a protocol for searching
for a missing child.
• Coordinated
– Code Adam
– Team Adam
• Time critical
• Staff training
• Aquatics search
– Swimming pool
– Open water
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Unaccompanied minors on campus
pose special challenges.
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Check out the Resource Materials.
You’ll find, among other items:
• Forensic child interview training
• Lost camper protocols
• Public safety procedures
• Unaccompanied minors policies
• Suggested rental contract terms
• Federal and state law compliance analysis
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28. The National Center for Campus Public Safety
Youth Protection Network
for Higher Education
• Began in 2013
• 180+ members
• Monthly conference calls
• List serve
• Resource sharing
• Benchmarking
• FREE
To join, contact annfranke@Verizon.net
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29. The National Center for Campus Public Safety
Thank You!
Ann H. Franke
Wise Results LLC
2555 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Suite 218
Washington DC 20037
annfranke@Verizon.net
202-725-5044
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30. www.margolishealy.com
www.nccpsafety.org
info@nccpsafety.org
1.866.817.5817
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