Our Services at Margolis, Healy & Associates
Campus Security Assessments
Margolis, Healy & Associates will survey your residential, academy and administrative facilities; security and safety related policies; and existing or envisioned security technology infrastructure (closed circuit television systems; access control; and mass notification and warning systems) in order to provide recommendations in alignment with promising or best practices. For security technology needs, we can provide system cost projections that can be included in overall fiscal projections as well as specifications that can be included in installation bids.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Emergency Preparedness & Crisis Response For Campuses
Margolis, Healy & Associates assists our clients with developing emergency response and recovery plans tailored to your institution’s needs. Our work includes the formulation of an emergency management system and the associated development of coordination capabilities, policy and strategic roles, and effective implementation of recovery efforts specific to educational settings. We explore the roles and responsibilities of the executive decision makers and operational “first responders” while building an Emergency Operations Center and moving through the phases of a critical incident. Our services include developing policies, creating effective teams, developing crisis communication messages and conducting comprehensive “hands-on” training.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Mass Notification System Implementation
Margolis, Healy & Associates will assist you with the purchase, implementation and use of a mass notification system that includes multi-modal communications and public address systems. We help develop the request for proposals; coordinate the bid process; and facilitate the review and selection. We have on-going, objective relationships with a number of industry leaders and only bring the best forward for institutional review.
We Provide Solutions for Safe Campuses.
Public Safety Management Studies For Campuses
Margolis, Healy & Associates has considerable academic and real world experience with organizational development and transformation. Our extensive experience in policing and higher education administration allows us to conduct management reviews and organizational studies for public safety associations, specializing in university and college settings. We will conduct a review of the institution's safety and security function and make recommendations and suggestions, if required, in light of best practices and institutional needs. Depending on the scope of the review, the goals of the management study may range from a review of the department's operations to human resource practices; staffing (recruitment and retention); policies and protocols; and facilities and equipment depending on application, time constraints, and availability of information.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Behavioral Threat Assessment Systems
Margolis, Healy & Associates recognizes that college and university personnel are increasingly asked to assist in the assessment and management of persons who engage in threatening and volatile behaviors. These individuals can be highly disruptive both in campus settings and in the community at large. Their behaviors may range from tactics of bullying and intimidation, to stalking and harassment, to acts of violence that devastate a workplace, family, campus, or community. Recent events across the country have illustrated the effectiveness of collaborative approaches by well-trained professionals and highlighted the ongoing need for quality, effective, threat management. For these approaches to be most effective, all members of the campus community must have a better understanding of the nature and process of violence, how to identify persons at risk, reporting and assessing concerns, and resolving situations through compassionate and effective approaches. We help our client institutions build awareness and skills through an overview of violence on campus; identifying persons at risk; reporting concerns; threat assessment v. profiling; developing threat assessment systems and teams; and de-escalating volatile situations.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Critical Incident Management & Behavioral Threat Consultation
Margolis, Healy & Associates is available to consult with institutional leadership and public safety officials on an “as needed” basis during the executive management and recovery phase of a critical incident or on a case-by-case basis for behavioral threat concerns.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Implementation of Lethal & Less-than-Lethal Force Options
Margolis, Healy & Associates understands the unique challenges that arise when an institution of higher education explores arming their campus public safety officers, or implementing less-than-lethal use of force options. Our extensive experience in public safety and higher education administration allows us to facilitate reviews and studies that support institutions and their public safety functions with these decisions and processes. We are well equipped to assist in this area. As part of our service, we will conduct a review of the institution's safety and security function and make recommendations and suggestions, if required, around arming in light of best practices and institutional needs. Our recommendations may include, but are not limited to, personnel policy modifications; choice of use of force weapons (lethal and non-lethal); policy guidelines; and training requirement suggestions.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Clery Compliance Assessment & Training
Margolis, Healy & Associates offers compliance assessments and several Clery Act training programs. Compliance with the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act can appear to be a daunting and overwhelming responsibility. Compliance is complex and institutions must approach the Act with a spirit of cooperation and collaboration. MH&A provides orientation sessions on all aspects of the Clery Act; complete annual security report assessment; and hands-on assistance in establishing model programs in compliance with the Act.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Violence Against Women Crimes Prevention For Campuses
We offer the opportunity to explore innovative approaches for addressing policy development and training on crimes of violence against women on educational campuses, specifically domestic violence, sexual assault, and stalking. Our client institutions examine and assess their current response to these challenges and the impact they have on the educational environment. We emphasize developing and communicating priorities, networking with colleagues to share challenges and solutions, and designing practical action plans to maximize organization and community efforts to end violence against women, assist victims and hold perpetrators accountable.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Expert Witness & Litigation Consultation
Margolis, Healy & Associates, LLC is available to consult on litigation issues surrounding security and public safety events and concerns at universities and colleges.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
Workplace Violence Prevention
Traditional crime prevention strategies deal with attacks from outside the organization but the manner in which workplace violence is often carried out today shows that the perpetrator comes from inside, either the organization’s own staff or clientele. Random violence is less and less the cause of these problems. With regards to awareness and prevention, the most effective defense is to combine preventive human resource practices with the identification of warning signs of violent behavior. We define violence in this regard as behavior and actions that would lead a reasonable and prudent person to interpret a potential for violence. Our solutions for educational institutions is to include policy development and training that explores the leading motives for workplace violence and sources in the organization. We work with higher education and K-12 clients to enhance environmental and support structures including behavioral threat assessment teams (for students, faculty, staff and guests) and grievance procedures. We assist in response and recovery planning as a post-incident response to a violent act in the workplace.
We Provide Solutions For Safe Campuses.
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Solutions For Safe Campuses - Campus Safety Assessments, Emergency Preparedness, Crisis Response Training, Management Studies
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Solutions for Safe Campuses
SERVICES
• Campus Security Assessments
• Emergency Preparedness
• Mass Notification Implementation
• Management Studies
• Crisis Response Training
• Behavioral Threat Assessment
• Critical Incident Consultation
• Arming Studies
• Clery Assessments
• VAW Crime Training
• Litigation Consultation
• Workplace Violence Prevention
• Security Technology Audits