Join Us: Become a PASS Partner!

As a nonprofit 501c3 organization PASS relies on a coalition of organizational partners to support use of its tools and resources and communicate our vision and mission. Solutions providers working daily to meet the needs of schools around the country are key partners in this effort.

Our Vision

- PASS supports efforts by communities throughout the United States to provide and sustain an effective level of safety appropriate to each district and K-12 facility, recognizing that making schools safer is both achievable and urgently needed.

Our Mission

- To provide school administrators, school boards and public safety and security professionals with information, tools and insight needed to implement a layered and tiered approach to securing and enhancing the safety of school environments based on local needs, nationwide best practices, and effective utilization of available resources.
To effectively work together in support these objectives, it’s important to establish mutual expectations to ensure our partnerships will support the vision and mission of PASS.

What you can expect from PASS:

PASS is committed to preparing and supporting PASS partners to work constructively in the K-12 environment by providing:

• Periodic updates to the Safety and Security Guidelines, Checklist and other resources to ensure they are current and as relevant as possible to K-12 needs.
• Eligibility for participation as partner subject matter experts on the PASS Advisory Council tasked with ensuring the above, as well other supporting activities, subject to approval by the PASS Board of Directors.
• A well-maintained, professional website, including a listing of PASS partners with their logos.
• PASS-related collateral in electronic form, and permission to use (unaltered) PASS materials as well as PASS images and logos by request.
• On-site and web-based training for your personnel regarding how to use PASS resources.
• Support for your events – (electronic) collateral and in-person presenters (depending on availability).

Partner Expectations:

• Partners should be able to articulate and present to school safety and security stakeholders:
  • What is PASS, its vision and mission.
  • The basic concepts in the PASS Guidelines including its:
    • Layered Security Model
    • Safety and Security Components
    • Tiered Best Practices
    • PASS Checklist
    • The various ways in which utilization of the Guidelines are recommended.
• Partners must subscribe annually and complete PASS partner training at the level of your choice to ensure that personnel working with schools understand the PASS Partner program and its materials.
• Maintain a designated point of contact (POC) for PASS partnership and related communications.
• For profit firms must be members of the National Systems Contractors Association (NSCA), the Security Industry Association (SIA), the Door and Hardware Institute (DH) or other PASS partner association or professional organizations, in order to be eligible to be PASS partners. This indicates a baseline of professionalism and capability to meet expectations for PASS Partners, by demonstrating compliance with terms and conditions of membership in such organizations, including any applicable code of ethics requirements (for NSCA and SIA for example).
• In working with end-users, PASS Partners will support the PASS “tiered approach” by
  • Encouraging schools to (generally, and to the extent practicable):
    • Implement the best practice recommendations presented in the PASS Guidelines across each of the safety and security components as local needs and resources allow.
    • Ensure that basic protective measures are being implemented if more advanced measures are sought.
  • Ensuring PASS tools and resources are presented “as is” without modification when used, and provided by partners at no cost to end-users.
  • Refraining from representing specific products as “PASS approved,” but explaining, where appropriate, how a product may fulfill a PASS recommendation.
  • Refraining from recommending use of practices, equipment or technology in contradiction of PASS recommendations.
• Partners are encouraged to use the PASS Partner logo and link to www.passk12.org on their websites.
• Partners will refrain from fielding media inquiries on behalf of or as spokespersons for PASS, unless granted permission by the PASS Board of Directors.

Process:

• A firm’s partnership proposal (signed MOU) is ultimately subject to approval by the PASS Board of Directors (within a reasonable time frame), before it can be represented as a PASS Partner.
• Partners must maintain a PASS Partner training subscription, chosen from the available options that best meet their needs.
• Maintaining partner status is conditioned upon meeting the terms of the MOU, subject to review by the committee on an ongoing basis.
• PASS may alter the terms of this MOU after it is signed, providing 30 days’ notice to partners to review and accept changes. For donation or tax purposes, the PASS EIN is 85-0960120.

Partner Application

If you support our core principles and agree to the expectations set forth above, you can become a PASS partner by signing below and emailing the signed form along with your organization’s logo in EPS format to Tom LeBlanc at tleblanc@nsca.org. By signing below, you grant permission to publicly list your organization as a PASS partner.