House of Worship Ready Kit

Houses of worship face the same emergency medical challenges as schools, stadiums, and large public venues. Large gatherings, volunteer staff with no formal training, complex buildings that responding crews have never entered, and no warning before a crisis begins. Most have no practical plan for the moment something goes wrong.

The House of Worship Ready Kit was developed by Penn Tactical Solutions to close that gap. It is written for the people who are actually present: volunteer ushers, greeters, nursery staff, security teams, and ministry leaders. It assumes no prior emergency medical training. It gives faith communities the protocols, tools, and documentation they need to act effectively in the critical minutes before professional responders arrive.

The kit covers cardiac arrest and AED deployment, bleeding control and tourniquet use, overdose response with naloxone, mass injury readiness, children's ministry medical information and reunification, building access and EMS navigation, outdoor event and parking lot ambulance access, and the legal and liability considerations that fall on faith leaders and their organizations.

Included documents span a 5-minute leadership self-assessment, emergency role assignment templates, equipment location logs, a building access and EMS navigation guide, an ICS framework adapted for a worship setting, post-incident recovery documentation, laminated quick reference cards, and a justification template for the FEMA Nonprofit Security Grant Program. The NSGP is the primary federal funding source available to nonprofit faith communities for safety infrastructure.

The House of Worship Ready Kit is available at no cost to any congregation, regardless of size, tradition, or affiliation.