Central Office: School Resource Officer
Being Prepared
....from the ERIP Website
By Jim Harvey
Staff members at Holden R-III are learning how to develop an Emergency Resource Information Plan (ERIP), a web-based school emergency planning toolkit that ensured "best practice" consistency across the State of Missouri and also real-time first responder connectivity to the plans - including floor plans of specific schools, photos, diagrams, etc. T
Homeland Security funds the web-based planning tool (ERIP) and
provides the tool to all public and non-public K-12, higher
education, and registered day care institutions in Missouri. This
tool allows law enforcement, fire, and other emergency responders
to access participating school floor plans and other critical
information via the web portal when responding to school
emergencies. Over 70% of all schools in Missouri participate in ERIP,
covering 75% of Missouri's K-12 school children.
ERIP is a secure, server-based system that improves preparedness and mitigates emergencies, provided at no cost to all schools throughout Missouri.
ERIP promotes collaborative efforts of emergency planners (school and public safety) in developing better, NIMS-compliant plans in less time within a consistent, very customizable format by utilizing industry "Best Practices."
First Responders can readily access ERIP via MERIS (Missouri
Emergency Resource Information System) to obtain tactical response
information such as floor plans, digital images, staff rosters,
etc. when necessary.
