Inform The Nest

Inform The Nest Series

Inform The Nest is an educational campaign provided by the Emergency Management Department at FGCU. Throughout the campaign there will be multiple events that aim to inform the FGCU community. Check out the calendar below to find the upcoming events:

name	day	month	year	time	duration	color	location	description
Rave About RAVE Tabling	13	02	2024	11:30 am - 1:00 pm	1	1	Library Lawn, Zone 3	Come learn about RAVE! Before you head off to class, pop by our table to learn everything you need to know about RAVE Guardian.
Virtual Workshop: RAVE Guardian	20	02	2024	11:00 am - 11:30 am		1	Zoom	Join the FGCU Emergency Management Team to learn about the RAVE Guardian app. RAVE Guardian is your safety lifeline on campus! This session will discuss the features of RAVE Guardian with practice scenarios and a Q & A session with the Emergency Management Team and UPD Dispatch. Fill out the form found at this link to sign up: https://forms.gle/xCMCmSfGVGm3tMmm8
Virtual Workshop: RAVE Guardian	20	02	2024	3:00 pm - 3:30 pm		1	Zoom	Join the FGCU Emergency Management Team to learn about the RAVE Guardian app. RAVE Guardian is your safety lifeline on campus! This session will discuss the features of RAVE Guardian with practice scenarios and a Q & A session with the Emergency Management Team and UPD Dispatch. Fill out the form found at this link to sign up: https://forms.gle/xCMCmSfGVGm3tMmm8
Rave About Rave Tabling	17	02	2024	9:00 am - 1:00 pm		1	Library Lawn	Come learn about the RAVE Guardian app and its features! The Rave Guardian app is a safety app that is designed to help students and families have access to important community safety features. In addition to learning about Rave, the Annual Security and Fire Safety Report will be provided to prospective students.

Inform The Nest Archive

Opioid abuse is a widespread issue that leads to addiction, overdose and many negative outcomes within our community. While there is not currently an opioid epidemic on FGCU campus, prevention and awareness are known as best practices to keep our faculty, staff and students safe. Throughout November and December, the University Police Department along with the Emergency Management Department created opioid awareness by offering several prevention activities for members of the community to attend. These activities helped faculty and staff to recognize the warning signs and symptoms of opioid abuse with a focus on Fentanyl and its potential impact to our campus and community. UPD also communicated how they will respond to a reported overdose situation on campus.

Resources:

Mental Health Resources

Employee Assistance Program

Student Care Services

CAPS Crisis Line: 239-745-EARS (3277)

Florida Health's Substance Abuse Information

Florida Health's Fentanyl Overdose Information

Florida's CORE Network (Recovery Program)

Drug Free Lee Resource Bank

Florida Health - Lee County

Kimmies Recovery Center

Treatment Locator

CDC's Understanding the Opioid Overdose Epidemic

CDC's Prescription Opioids

SAMHSA National Helpline: 1-800-662-HELP

Events Held: Real Talk Session- A Focus on Fentanyl, Just Say Boo to Drugs, Tabling events, etc.

Guardian Eagle is a state-of-the-art safety app that allows you to turn your cell phone into a safety device. FGCU Police can also utilize the Guardian Eagle App to communicate with users during an emergency and quickly provide important information.

Guardian Eagle allows you to select Guardians, such as friends and family members, to check-in on you when you are alone or in an unfamiliar place; set-up a Safety Timer with a location and expected arrival time. If you don’t arrive on time your Guardians are notified to check in on you. You can also send anonymous tips using text and images about suspicious activity to FGCU Police; use an Emergency Call Button to connect with FGCU Police. Your GPS location is provided so emergency personnel can reach you faster. Users can set up a Safety Profile and add important information emergency responders need to know – things like medical conditions, allergies, disabilities, and more.

To create awareness and promote the RAVE Guardian App the Emergency Management Department hosted several virtual info sessions that had over 25 professional staff members signed-up. Additionally, Emergency Management participated in FGCU's Eagle Expo in order to promote RAVE Guardian as well as the 2023 Security and Fire Safety Report. At this event, there were over 2,000 attendees mainly comprised of prospective students and their family members.

Over the month of March the Emergency Management team partnered with the FGCU University Police Department to share many crime prevention tips with our FGCU community through our Instagram account. to see the content posted click the following link or enter the Instagram app and search @FGCU_EmergencyManagement. Throughout campaign we were able to share content to over 750 followers and were able to reach over 1,300 accounts in the month of March alone.