Our friend and well respected legal voice in the work reducing and responding to sexual misconduct, David Wolowitz, wrote an important and useful article in the July/August issue of Net Assets magazine in 2018.

The article gets to the heart of where incidents can become more problematic for schools than they need to be. Advance planning, training and alignment are the best ways to ensure that you are able to respond quickly, while keeping the care of those harmed at the forefront of your response.

Three of the takeaways from David's article include these (excerpted from the article):

1. Successful crisis communications hinge on collaborative,
   well-thought-out work between a school’s administration
   and board of trustees.
2. Prior to any crisis, administrators and trustees must agree
   on three key organizational dynamics: respective roles,
   guiding principles and information-sharing.
3. Board members must be trained in the importance of
   protecting privileged, private and sensitive information, and
   all relevant parties should train for a crisis.

To read the full article, click here.