The Southern Ute Risk Management Division hosted a reunification training facilitated by the I Love U Guys (ILUG) Foundation, May 29-30. Tribal entities, departments, surrounding schools and first responders in the area attended the two-day event. The ILUG foundation model is geared toward crisis response and post-crisis reunification for schools, organizations, and communities.  The model is created based on real-world applications and developed and exercised with hands-on practitioners/users.  Real-life experiences are shared by members of the foundations along with encouraging practitioners to share their real-life experiences.   

This session was geared toward the history and introduction of the Standard Reunification Model for educators, administrators, law enforcement and emergency agencies, front-facing staff, and victim advocates.  This provides consistency for everyone with reunification plan design, approaches, and terminology.   

Participants attended in person and were able to serve in student, teacher/manager, and parent roles.  Teams were developed to plan out their reunification plan for their students/staff/community by acknowledging local resources and identifying those in the community who have been exposed and/or carried out responses relative to the Incident Command System model when responding to emergent safety situations.  At the conclusion of the training those in attendance were able to take home reunification plan information and guidance materials.   

Risk Management had 120 attendees throughout the two-day event with lunch provided by the Southern Ute Multi-Purpose Facility staff.