LEADERS IN SCHOOL SAFETY
Welcome to the Washington School Safety Organization website. We are an organization comprised of school resource officers, school security officers, DARE officers, school administrators, and GREAT officers dedicated to keeping our students, staff, and schools safe.
We combined both the Washington DARE Officer's Association and the Washington School Security and School Resource Officer's Association to create this new and exciting organization.
Throughout Washington, students, staff and the communities we serve receive the benefits of the WSSO members by promoting a safe and secure learning environment.
Each year at our annual conference, we bring together trainers and experts from around the state and nation to address current trends and topics in our schools. With this current knowledge and updated training, our vested members can provide our schools with the best skills and tools to keep our students, staff and communities safe.
COVID-19 WSSO UPDATE
Dear Members,
After closely monitoring the risk and impact of COVID-19 on a daily basis, the WSSO Board has determined it is not feasible to hold this year’s WSSO Training Conference. Even if we meet the goals of the Governor’s Office in re-opening, we will be impacted by the social distancing requirements. This would make it impossible for WSSO to provide level of training and networking that you have come to rely on.
We are working to reschedule the conference for July 18-22, 2021 at the 3 Rivers Convention Center. Please save the date. As we re-organize and begin to plan for the 2021 Conference, we will keep you up to date on the development of that conference.
For those of you who have registered/paid for the 2020 conference, we will be reaching out to you directly to get your conference fees reimbursed as quickly as possible.
We also realize that SROs still need to have their mandated 1216 training done by September. We will be working on providing resources and training opportunities for that throughout the spring and summer. We will send out updates as information becomes available.
We very much appreciate everyone’s patience during this time and we hope to see you in July 2021.
Respectfully,
The WSSO Board
After closely monitoring the risk and impact of COVID-19 on a daily basis, the WSSO Board has determined it is not feasible to hold this year’s WSSO Training Conference. Even if we meet the goals of the Governor’s Office in re-opening, we will be impacted by the social distancing requirements. This would make it impossible for WSSO to provide level of training and networking that you have come to rely on.
We are working to reschedule the conference for July 18-22, 2021 at the 3 Rivers Convention Center. Please save the date. As we re-organize and begin to plan for the 2021 Conference, we will keep you up to date on the development of that conference.
For those of you who have registered/paid for the 2020 conference, we will be reaching out to you directly to get your conference fees reimbursed as quickly as possible.
We also realize that SROs still need to have their mandated 1216 training done by September. We will be working on providing resources and training opportunities for that throughout the spring and summer. We will send out updates as information becomes available.
We very much appreciate everyone’s patience during this time and we hope to see you in July 2021.
Respectfully,
The WSSO Board