Faith-Based Daily Awareness Post 11 August 2023

These updates are shared to help raise the situational awareness of Faith-Based organizations to best defend against, and mitigate the impacts from all-hazards threats including physical security, cybersecurity, and natural disasters.

Lessons Learned From the Memphis Hebrew School Shooting

COLlive  provides lessons learned from the Margolin Hebrew Academy school shooting.

Security expert Zalman Myer-Smith provides details to the following “fundamentals that will help secure your facility and occupants from terror or extremist attacks.”

1) Assessments

2) Evaluate your site

3) Active Shooter Response

4) Breach response/mitigation

5) Grants

6) Security Fee

7) Law enforcement and Medical Emergency communications and contacts

8) Culture of Security/Safety

9) Internal emergency communications

Also, Campus Safety provides Rethinking School Safety: Taking Action with Common Sense and Improved Standards.

And, CISA provides Back to School Month: Let’s Step Towards a Stronger and More Secure future for Our Nation’s Schools.

Analyst Comment:

While security at Faith-Based schools is a year-round effort, the above resources can assist schools in preparing for the safety of returning students.

As always, Faith-Based ISAO’s website provides resources in the Resource Library.

Update to Earlier Faith-Based Security Headlines

Faith-based global security ministry helped free kidnapped American nurse, daughter in Haiti

From the article:

Concilium Inc., a faith-based global security company headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, worked with the U.S. State Department and other American law enforcement officials to secure the release of New Hampshire nurse Alix Dorsainvil and her daughter, both of whom were kidnapped from the campus of Christian education ministry, El Roi Haiti, on July 27 near Port-au-Prince, Haiti, the ministry said.

On the day she was abducted, witnesses told The Associated Press that Alix Dorsainvil was busy caring for patients in a small brick clinic when armed men ambushed the site where she was working and took her captive. Members of the community said the gunmen demanded a $1 million ransom. It was still unclear Thursday if any ransom was paid.