District School Board Ontario North East is committed to ensuring the well-being of our students and staff. Therefore, all schools will have plans and supports in place to deal with tragic events.
Tragedies occur which affect the students and staff of a school. The task of coping with such tragedies is shared by the school and related professionals. An appropriate response will be determined by the facts of the events. A tragic event can trigger unresolved grief from previous losses, and we must be prepared to deal with both.
It is the responsibility of the school principal to develop a crisis management plan and to form a TRAGIC EVENTS RESPONSE TEAM (TERT) to carry out that plan. This ensures that schools are able to respond quickly and effectively to a tragedy. The attached procedure, the “Tragic Events Response Manual”, governs the response of the school or Board Office in the event of a tragedy.
