Case Study: Santa Barbara Unified School District achieves faster health screening and teacher peace of mind with CrisisGo Safety iPass

Helping Teachers Shape Future Generations Using Safety iPass

Santa Barbara Unified School District, the primary public district serving Santa Barbara and Goleta with nearly 15,000 students across 20 buildings, struggled to coordinate hybrid cohorts, social distancing and contact tracing during and after the COVID-19 shutdown—initially relying on a cumbersome Google Doc. To streamline daily health screening and campus access they turned to CrisisGo’s Safety iPass.

CrisisGo implemented Safety iPass district-wide, using daily staff questionnaires, parent email reminders and a CrisisGo app that lets students show printed or digital access badges (integrated with Safe2SpeakUP on school devices). The result: faster, more accurate screening and immediate case alerts, administrators can scan dashboards instead of parsing forms, and teachers report greater security and more time to focus on social-emotional and academic needs—supporting safety for 15,000 students and 1,500 staff.

Santa Barbara Unified School District

Roxanna Stern

Teacher Induction Program Coordinator, Federal Program Monitoring Lead