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ICP — Institute for Childhood Preparedness

Site security & risk assessment

Fresh, expert eyes on the place your children spend their days.

ICP's team conducts a comprehensive, top-to-bottom security and risk analysis of your facility — your building, your procedures, your neighborhood — and hands you a written report with clear, prioritized recommendations.

Why it matters

Every location is different. Your assessment should be too.

Our team has trained hundreds of thousands of early childhood professionals and seen thousands of locations. No one knows better than we do that every site is unique — different buildings, different neighborhoods, different routines, different risks.

That is why the assessment is customized to your facility. Through direct observation and detailed conversations with the people who work there every day, we review your policies, procedures, and operations from top to bottom — and translate what we find into recommendations you can actually act on.

What's included

A top-to-bottom look at your facility.

Interior and exterior site review

A physical walkthrough of your facility, inside and out — classrooms, common spaces, playgrounds, parking, and the building envelope.

Every entrance and exit

A thorough examination of all access points: how people get in, how children could get out, and how both are controlled.

Neighborhood and surrounding area

A review of the area around your facility, including recent trends in crime and violence that should shape your planning.

Conversations with your people

Structured discussions with key staff members and stakeholders — the people who know where the real friction points are.

Current procedures

A review of daily operations with safety implications: pick-up and drop-off, transfer of care, transitions with children, visitor handling, and more.

A comprehensive written report

Everything is documented in a detailed report with prioritized, actionable recommendations — a roadmap you can share with leadership, licensors, and funders.

ICP assessor in discussion with childcare staff around a table

Part of something bigger

The assessment anchors the Bees to the Beehive™ engagement.

An assessment stands on its own — but it is also the first pillar of ICP's comprehensive preparedness engagement. The site-specific findings feed directly into staff training and the leadership tabletop exercise, so every recommendation connects to what your team practices.

Learn about the full Bees to the Beehive™ engagement →

“Wow! That was a great assessment. I appreciate the details and the breakdown. This will help us move forward in our continued implementation towards safety… I look forward to sharing this with upper management and our school district.”

Early Head Start Director — Urban Strategies, Phoenix

Let our experts take a look.

Tell us about your facility and we will provide additional information and a no-obligation quote.

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