• Identify staff members who will follow the deceased student's class schedule.
• Identify a "floater" who will be available throughout the building, to roam the halls and facilitate communication between the care center, counseling office, administrative offices, communication center.
• Identify a "logger" to record activities, school/community contacts, parent/teacher contacts and others.
• Seek additional community services and helping professional support.
  

The Lead Counselor should plan the logistics of crisis counseling:

• Who will meet with individual students?
• Who will meet with groups of students?
• Who will meet with the faculty and staff?
• Who will meet with parents?
• Who will meet with school/community support services (i.e. school psychologists, community mental health counselors)?
  (Note: It is important to delegate for personnel well-being, and shared responsibility).

Designate a care center away from the office for students who need additional time to cope with the situation or meet with peers.

Provide sign in sheets to help monitor students who are in need of attention.

Debrief counseling staff at the beginning and the end of each day.

Contact feeder or receiver schools so that they can provide support for students affected in their schools.

Call parents of students counseled to provide continued support for the students who are very distressed.

Focus on the needs of survivors. Initiate groups for the victim's friends and conduct post-traumatic loss debriefings.

Provide support personnel to be available for emergency counseling with students or faculty after hours.

Communicate with faculty and enlist the help of teacher advisors, sponsors, and coaches to nurture and support their particular population of students.

Identify students who attended funeral who may need additional support for dealing with their grief and loss experience.

Provide information to parents; setting up a hotline number is very helpful.

Provide information and seek assistance from students who are peer helpers. They are frequently the first finders of students in distress.

Plan for the transition and return of a student who attempted suicide or who was hospitalized due to illness or violence.

Stop notifications on student activities (e.g. scholarship information, testing, placement, failure and attendance notices) from being sent to the home of a family whose child has died.

Remove personal items from desks and lockers and save for parents.

Prepare students who are chosen to participate in the memorial service.

Plan some debriefing time toward the end of the day or week to take care of one another and to share experiences.