Campus Police and Safety

HCC to serve as WCPS reunification site

Officials from Washington County Public Schools, Hagerstown Community College, Washington County Department of Social Services, and the Maryland Center for School Safety recently met at HCC to discuss an upcoming training on family reunification. The group toured HCC’s ARCC, which will serve as a reunification site for WCPS students and parents, should the site ever be needed.

The two-day formal reunification training is scheduled for June 2023. Instructors from the “i love u guys” Foundation will present an overview of the reunification process, including tabletop exercises. The training is made possible through a grant from the Maryland Center for School Safety. Attendees will include WCPS school administrators, school resource officers, HCC staff, and Washington County Reunification Leadership members.

Pictured at the meeting are, seated, from left: Dr. David Sovine, superintendent of WCPS; Dr. James Klauber, president of HCC; and Kate Hession, executive director of the Maryland Center for School Safety. Standing, from left, are Jennifer Kane, assistant director of the Washington County Department of Social Services and chairperson for the County Reunification Committee; Jennifer Childs, HCC executive director of Human Resources; Joseph Dino Pignataro, deputy director of the Maryland Center for School Safety; James Hott, training/certification specialist and western Maryland representative for Maryland Center for School Safety; Steven Ganley, WCPS manager of safety and security; and Eric Byers, HCC director of Public Safety.

(September 23, 2022)