The district will have and implement as needed a comprehensive emergency response/crisis management plan that focuses on time-limited, problem-focused interventions to identify, confront and resolve crises, restore equilibrium, and support appropriate adaptive responses.

Each school will have an individual emergency response/crisis management plan aligned with the district plan and designed to address the uniqueness of that school.

Each school and facility will have a crisis response team to implement appropriate action from the crisis management plan.

Each school and facility shall provide access to an Automated External Defibrillator (AED). AED devices purchased for use in Shelby County Schools by emergency response team responders and SCS personnel must be pre-approved. Donated equipment must also meet the specifications provided by the system.

Each placement of an AED shall be supervised and endorsed by a physician with an unrestricted license to practice medicine or osteopathy in the State of Tennessee. When a school receives its first AED, it shall place the AED in a location that may be accessed readily from any area of the school, which may include those areas of the school that are used for physical education or activity. Subsequently, additional AEDs shall be placed in locations that are accessible during emergency situations. AEDs shall not be placed in an office that is not accessible to any person who might need to use the AED or in any location that is locked during times that students, parents or school employees are present at school or school events.