The crisis recovery team should identify responsibilities for coordinating various aspects of recovery. Examples of key functions requiring coordination include:

Team Oversight

Crisis team chair—Convenes scheduled and emergency team meetings, oversees both broad and specific team functions, ensures that the required resources are available to each team member for assigned duties, and communicates with the district-level team. Is often an administrator or designee.

Assistant chair—Assists the crisis team chair with all functions and substitutes for the chair in the chair’s absence.

Incident crowd management

In collaboration with law enforcement and first responders, develops and implements plans for crowd management and movement during crises, including any required evacuation plans and security measures. Crowd management plans must anticipate many scenarios, including the need to cordon off areas to preserve physical evidence or to manage increased vehicular and pedestrian traffic. Because of the possibility of actual threats to physical safety, crowd management plans must provide for safe and organized movement in a way that minimizes the risk of harm under various threats, such as sniper fire.

Establishes, coordinates, and initiates the telephone tree to contact the crisis team and general staff, including itinerant, part-time, and paraprofessional staff. Also establishes a plan to rapidly disseminate relevant information to all staff during regular hours.