About
A Fairfax-based consultancy that writes the part of your plan most districts skip.
Reunification Ready works on one narrow problem: getting kids back to the right adult after a school is evacuated. We write the plan, train the people who’ll run it, and run the exercise that pressure-tests it. Nothing else.
What we actually do
A district hires us. Three to six months later they have a reunification annex that fits inside their existing EOP, a roster of staff who’ve been trained on it, and an after-action report from a tabletop or full-scale exercise that put it through its paces. The annex usually runs 20 to 30 pages. MOUs with transportation and the partner site are signed. The radio plan has been tested on the actual frequencies people will use that day. Anything beyond that is scope we negotiate up front.
Why reunification specifically
Most school emergency plans handle lockdown, evacuation, and shelter-in-place reasonably well. The piece that consistently breaks is what happens next: 800 students at a relocation site, parents arriving in the wrong parking lot, a sign-out process running off a paper roster that hasn’t been updated since August.
The Standard Reunification Method from the I Love U Guys Foundation has existed since 2012 and solves most of this. Federal exercise design standards (HSEEP) have existed longer. The work isn’t figuring out what to do; it’s sitting with one district at a time and adapting it to their bus contracts, custody paperwork, bilingual families, and state reporting rules. That takes time, and it’s most of what we do.
Where we work
We’re based at 3903 Fair Ridge Dr in Fairfax, Virginia, and most of our work is in Virginia and the DC metro because we know the DCJS and VCSCS reporting cycle well enough to write plans that will pass review on the first submission. We take engagements outside Virginia when the scope and travel make sense.
How we charge
Fixed fees by scope, quoted after a discovery call and a look at what already exists. We don’t do retainers, we don’t bill hourly for plan writing, and we don’t mark up software or printing. If a district already has a strong tabletop facilitator or a usable plan draft, we say so on the discovery call and quote a smaller piece of work.
SRM and HSEEP, not a proprietary framework
Your plan should be readable by any state reviewer or partner agency without a glossary. We write to the standards your reviewers already use.
Plans the front office can run
The people executing on the day are administrative assistants, custodians, bus drivers, and substitute teachers. If they can’t follow the plan in a hallway with the power out, the plan is wrong.
Every plan paired with an exercise
Tabletop minimum, full-scale where the district has the capacity. We don’t hand over a binder and walk away — the exercise is part of what you’re paying for.
Tell us where your plan currently stands.
A 30-minute call is usually enough to figure out whether we’re the right fit, or whether you’re closer to ready than you think.