Reunification Ready — Plan, Practice, Reunite

For K-12 schools & districts

Are you ready? Is your district ready for when the time comes to conduct a reunification?

When school is interrupted and students have to be released to families somewhere other than the front door, that’s a reunification. Reunification Ready helps your district get ready for it.

In their own words

“Nobody was prepared for this. Not only law enforcement, but the school district as well.”

Sheriff Bob Gualtieri
Chair, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission

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From the public record

What the after-action reports actually say

These four findings come straight from the DOJ Critical Incident Review, the Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission, and the independent Oxford review.

“Delayed and chaotic.” How the U.S. Department of Justice described the establishment of the Uvalde reunification center after the Robb Elementary shooting. DOJ COPS Critical Incident Review, 2024
12 hours How long some Parkland families waited to learn whether their loved one had survived. MSD Public Safety Commission
“No training” Independent review found Oxford responders helped reunify families “despite lacking formal training in best practices.” Oxford independent review, 2025
“No plan” Neither Broward County Public Schools nor the Sheriff’s Office had a reunification plan in place before the Parkland shooting. Stoneman Douglas Public Safety Commission

What we do

Five services that cover the work of K-12 reunification.

Pick what your district needs. Most start with an audit or a tabletop and add from there.

01 · Plan

Plan development

02 · Practice

Tabletop exercises & drills

03 · Train

Staff training

04 · Audit

Plan audits & gap assessments

05 · Respond

Post-incident support

You probably won’t reunify for a shooting. You will reunify for a bus accident, a gas leak, or a sustained power outage.

For most districts, the first real reunification is a non-violent event. That’s the one to plan for now, while the stakes are still hypothetical.

Are You Ready?