Breathe and maintain your composure
Get help or send a runner
Take cues from the adults; they will share as much as is appropriate
Call
Is it safe? Call for help.
Faculty, coach, chaperone, event official
Dial 911 or instruct another to do so (severity dependent; use your judgement or defer to an adult/official if one is close by)
Assess
Assess the situation. How can you be most effective?
Provide
Provide/facilitate basic first aid or whatever service is most beneficial to the given situation.
Stay
Remain present until you are released by an official or professional that can take over care or situation management.
When released from situation management
Direct peers away
Maintain engagement with normal event operation (if appropriate) or lead a quiet activity to keep others calm
Do not post or share information unnecessarily; dissuade peers from posting/texting to avoid misinformation/panic
Occasionally, identified organization adults are pulled to deal with a sensitive or emergent situations. They trust that student leadership will step up to guide the membership as needed.
Default to the organization's student leadership structure
Maintain engagement with normal event operation or lead an organized activity
Keep track of personnel
Send a runner to seek assistance from an identified adult for non-emergent situations
Be proactive
Trust that membership will do what is expected of them
Make inferences about how to handle similar situations in your own discipline
To be updated
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