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Educational Organizations Leverage Intrado to Return Back to School Safely During the Pandemic

OMAHA, Neb., Sept. 15, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Schools across North America are leveraging the Intrado Safety Shield™ solution to help them navigate the challenges associated with the COVID-19 pandemic as students return to school.
Intrado Safety Shield is an end-to-end safety management platform designed to provide prevention, preparation, and active response for threats faced by educational organizations of all kinds. The platform leverages Intrado’s comprehensive and secure notifications capabilities along with connectivity to the entire public safety ecosystem and access to expanding sources of threat-relevant data. This unique and powerful combination provides information and insights to 911 dispatchers, first responders, and educational leaders, allowing them to make more informed decisions and ultimately protect their communities more effectively.Intrado Safety Shield’s diverse collection of tools is uniquely suited to help educators address the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic and has a variety of use cases for both on-campus and remote learning situations, including:Communicating academic plans, virus outbreaks, and other issues with multi-channel mass notificationsSending daily task checklists to staff mobile devices to ensure that health and safety protocols are being followedLaunching wellness check notifications when students are absent from either on-campus or remote learning sessionsCollaborating with first responders in real-time to ensure fast emergency response when medical emergencies, school violence, vandalism, and other problematic situations happen on campusProviding staff with a mobile panic button solution so school leaders will be instantly alerted about classroom or campus emergenciesA media snippet accompanying this announcement is available by clicking the image or link below:
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