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Part 1: Introduction
1. Do you understand this language?
2. We are here to help you.
3. I do not understand your language.
4. There is no one available who speaks this language.
5. Try to answer my questions with "yes" or "no."
6. Move your head like this for "yes."
7. Move your head like this for "no."
8. Do you know where you are?
9. We are in contact with someone from your school.
10. We will try to contact someone from your family.
11. We cannot give you anything to eat or drink.
12. If you need surgery, your stomach must be empty.
13. We will give you food and drink as soon as it is safe to do so.
14. Are you thirsty?
15. Are you hungry?
16. Do you need to urinate?
17. Do you need to defecate?
18. I understand.
19. I do not understand.
20. Please.
21. Thank you.
22. You are welcome.
23. Thank you for talking with me.
24. I will talk with you again.
25. Good-bye.
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Part 2: Guidance
1. Be quiet.
2. Come with me.
3. Describe it with gestures.
4. Do not get excited.
5. Do what I ask.
6. Do you mean "no?"
7. Do you mean "yes?"
8. Hold up the number of fingers.
9. I will get an interpreter.
10. Is this it?
11. No.
12. Point to it.
13. Relax.
14. Show me.
15. Squeeze my hand once for "yes."
16. Squeeze my hand twice for "no."
17. Write your answer here.
18. Yes.
Part 3: Registration
1. What is your given name?
2. What is your family name?
3. What is your nationality?
4. What country were you born in?
5. What is the name of your school?
6. What is the name of your teacher?
7. Do you have any brothers or sisters at school?
8. Where are your parents?
9. What are your parents’ names?
10. Do you have phone numbers for any of your family members?
11. How old are you?
12. Do you have an identity card?
13. Show me your identification.
14. Do you have any bad reactions to medications?
15. What is the name of the medication that causes bad reactions?
16. Do you have any allergies to medicines?
17. What is your religion?
18. Do you smoke tobacco?
19. How many packs per day do you smoke?
20. Are you married?
21. Do you have any children?
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Part 4: Assessment
1. You have been injured.
2. You are ill.
3. Lie still.
4. We will take care of you.
5. Let us help you.
6. We must examine you carefully.
7. We will try to not hurt you further.
8. Do exactly what we ask.
9. Keep your head very still.
10. Keep very still.
11. This will help protect you.
12. Can you breathe?
13. Say your name out loud.
14. Do you hurt anywhere?
15. Show me where.
16. Show me where it hurts worst?
17. Does this hurt?
18. Move all off your fingers.
19. Move all of your toes.
20. Open your eyes.
21. Push against me.
22. You will feel better soon.
23. You must stay here.
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Part 6: Trauma
1. You have been hurt.
2. We are all working to help you.
3. Help us take care of you.
4. We have to remove your clothes.
5. Do you have any bad reactions to any medicine?
6. Have you eaten food in the past six hours?
7. Is this injury from an explosion?
8. Were you shot?
9. Is this from a knife?
10. Is this from a rock?
11. Is this from a vehicle crash?
12. Did a person do this to you?
13. Did you lose consciousness after this happened?
14. Did you lose more than this much blood?
15. Point to all the parts of your body that hurt.
16. Does it hurt when I do this?
17. Move this like this.
18. Turn over this way.
19. Did you inhale any smoke or very hot air?
20. Do your lungs hurt?
21. Are you having trouble breathing?
22. This will help avoid infection.
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Part 7: Procedures
1. This will help you.
2. I have to put a small needle in you here.
3. We need to give you fluid.
4. We need to give you blood.
5. I need to put a tube into your throat.
6. This tube will help you breathe better.
7. This tube may feel uncomfortable.
8. I need to put a tube through your nose to your stomach.
9. You need to swallow while I put this tube in your nose.
10. Drink this while I gently place the tube into your nose.
11. This tube will drain your stomach.
12. I have to put a small tube into your neck to give you fluid.
13. I need to put a tube in your chest.
14. This needle will release the air from your chest.
15. This will help your burns.
16. I need to cut your skin.
17. We have to restrain you for your safety.
18. You have been burned by a chemical.
19. We need to wash the chemicals from your skin.
20. You will need to be completely washed.
Part 8: Foley
1. Have you urinated today?
2. Does you bladder feel full?
3. Do you have problems starting to urinate?
4. Do you have an urge to urinate but are unable to pass urine?
5. Do you have any pain with urination?
6. Urinate into this container.
7. You need a tube in your bladder.
8. I am going to insert a tube into your bladder to drain urine.
9. This tube will empty the urine from your bladder.
10. This tube will feel uncomfortable in you.
11. Do not touch this tube.
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About School Safety Partners
This document is presented by School Safety Partners as part of a free online course on school safety. School
Safety Partners (www.SchoolSafetyPartners.org) is dedicated to creating long‐term funding partnerships to
support school safety best practices. We are a facilitator of joint research projects, reaching out to the general
public as well as stakeholders in the public, private, non‐profit, and academic sectors. Since our start in January,
2008, our projects have addressed the legislative, training, compliance, funding, and public awareness sides of
school safety. Here are some highlights:
1. We created a reference library documenting all aspects of Colorado Senate Bill 08‐181, a first‐of‐its‐kind
measure introduced by Senator Tom Wiens to modernize emergency planning in schools, so students,
teachers, and first responders can act fast in an emergency.
2. For the 10th anniversary of the Columbine High School tragedy, we produced the national media event,
"Colorado Rising," focusing on the future of school safety in America, and our guests and speakers were
covered by NBC‐TV, CNN, NPR, FOX, Oprah Radio, Channel One News, Associated Press, Reuters, the
Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Los Angeles Times, German Public Radio, the Guardian, and dozens of
other news sources.
3. We assisted in the 2008 Symposium and the 2009 Symposium on the Prevention of School Violence at
Johnson & Wales University, and in the tabletop exercises on interoperable communications conducted
for these events by one of our partners, SchoolSAFE Communications (www.SchoolSAFEcom.org).
4. We produced over 4 hours of video footage, with 2 video crews, covering a full‐scale active shooter and
multi‐hazard school exercise that involved 18 agencies and over 1,200 persons, and tested interoperable
communications in several school‐related settings.
5. We co‐created the School Response Framework Fund in support of the National Incident Managment
System (NIMS) and to help Colorado schools become NIMS‐compliant as quickly as possible.
6. We also developed a virtual campus that schools can use as an online training site for their safety
teams, and as an action center where schools can build strong relationships with community partners,
or local responders.
7. We have developed with ABC‐TV a nationwide community awareness campaign, giving recognition to
educators as first responders, and calling for the creation of public‐private partnerships to make school
safety sustainable in communities across America.
8. We have also developed with the creators of the feature motion picture, "April Showers," the
educational and school safety materials to accompany the film as it is released to the worldwide
educational market.
9. Other states have shown an interest in what we have done in Colorado about school crisis response, and
for them we have designed webinars and information kits about improving school safety legislation and
finding long‐term funding solutions.
We hope that you find our information useful and our contacts productive. We invite you to explore all parts of
our website, and also share with us your views, experiences, lessons learned, best practices, and innovations.
Please visit us at www.SchoolSafetyPartners.org and register online in order to access all of our sections.
Registration is free.