Services Offered

Pre-Departure Safety Abroad Orientations

Utilizing best practices developed from emergency preparedness, incident response, and study abroad guidelines this orientation prepares students for some of the issues they will face while away and provides students the opportunity to meet with others going abroad.

These pre-departure orientations may be custom tailored to location and always include the following:

• Developing situational awareness
• Understanding high risk behaviors
• Recognizing common overseas misconceptions
• Evaluating severity of the emergency
• Who to notify and how
• Best practices for prior planning and response

Staff and Trip Leader Trainings

Staff and trip leaders - directly associated with the institution or not - play a critical role in planning for, responding to, and recovering from incidents that occur abroad. Trip leaders must understand that they have a responsibility to understand and mitigate risk while abroad as well as assume a leadership role during an incident. 

Trainings provide attendees ability to:

• Develop and utilize situational awareness
• Identify and manage foreseeable risks 
• Be prepared to respond to emergencies
• Crisis communication strategies

Response Plan Development

Having a plans is the first step in a successful response to an incident abroad. Prepared Abroad is uniquely situated to assist institutions of higher learning in their development of clear and actionable incident action plans which include - at a minimum - the following:

• Incident Action Plan
  • Crisis Communication
  • Evacuation 
  • Recovery 
  • Third-Party Response Plans