Emergency Management Interactive Workshop

Sign up now for new HEPNet programming: Interactive Workshops are designed to help you dive deeper into crucial topics or resources alongside like-minded individuals, where you'll leave with actionable steps tailored specifically to your institution. 

Join us for our Interactive Workshop as we utilize the NEW essential resource, Emergency Management: Considerations When Reviewing Your Plans & Protocols.

Here's what you can expect:

  • Take a Snapshot of Emergency Readiness: Get an overview of how to assess your institution’s current emergency management plans and protocols as they relate to youth programs. 

  • Use the Emergency Management Review Resource: You’ll identify where plans exist, where gaps may remain, and how prepared your campus is to respond to emergencies involving minors. We will examine hazards, vulnerabilities, and youth-specific needs across programs, locations, and partners.

  • Identify and Engage Key Emergency Partners: Leverage the review process to connect with critical campus partners—such as public safety, risk management, health services, facilities, and youth program leaders—who play a role in emergency planning and response. 

  • Learn from Peers & Network: Hear what’s working, what’s challenging, and how others are adapting emergency planning to better protect minors.

Experienced Instructors:

Melanie Bennett,  JD, ARM-E
Sr. Risk Management Counsel, United Educators

In her role as Senior Risk Management Counsel at United Educators Insurance, Melanie dives into timely topics affecting education. Her areas of expertise include protecting minors, enterprise risk management (ERM), technology accessibility, and athletics. Prior to joining UE, she interned at the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights. Melanie serves on the Higher Education Protection Network’s (HEPNet’s) Board of Directors.

Stacy Fair,  M.Ed.
Director of Youth Programs and Compliance, Department of Risk Assessment, North Carolina State University

Stacy Fair has worked in Higher Education for over 25 years.  Stacy is NC State University’s first Director of Youth Programs and Compliance under the Department of Risk Assessment within the Division of Environmental Health and Public Safety after having spent 13 years in Enrollment Management and Services serving as the Director of the Joyner Visitor Center and the Office of Parents & Families Services.  In these roles, Stacy monitored the Protection of Minors Policy and Procedures and initiated the Emerging Scholars Academy.  Stacy has worked closely with the Recruiters Roundtable and the University Open House committee, which she has chaired from 2009-2019.

Prior to arriving at NC State, Stacy served as an Academic Advisor, Assistant Registrar and Commencement Coordinator at UNCG and has coordinated or assisted with dozens of commencement ceremonies and large scale events.

Who is this workshop for?


Higher Education individuals or institutions who are:

  • Developing and revamping emergency management procedures 

  • Preparing to assess existing youth-related programs, activities, or environments
  • Looking to enhance or expand their youth protection efforts