The Community on Patrol program staffing structure includes a coordinator, who reports to the assistant principal, and the volunteers who report to the coordinator. The coordinator also maintains program records, reports progress, recruits and schedules volunteers and coordinates trainings for volunteers.

The program is supported through a combination of grant and school funding. The planning committee will therefore need to consider what financial resources - fundraisers, grant opportunities, donations are available and determine who will be responsible. To replicate Community on Patrol, expenses include stipends for a coordinator and eligible Patrol members in addition to equipment and materials such as walkie-talkies, identifiable clothing and forms.

Program Planning and Implementation
The Everett Middle School Community on Patrol committee offers the following suggestions for consideration when starting your own Community on Patrol program. Establish a planning committee. Early in the planning process this committee will need to determine critical times of the school day when additional adult supervision is needed on campus, the length of time volunteers are needed to patrol and the number of parent volunteers needed on a daily basis.

To promote the program and recruit volunteers, planning committee members should make presentations at Back-to-School Nights, PTA meetings and parent clubs. Mailings, phone contacts and newsletters are also effective for recruitment of volunteers. This type of program requires an application and interview process, including screening potential volunteers through background checks and TB testing as required by law. Inform potential volunteers that this process takes time and may delay when they can participate in the program. Knowing this information beforehand may help to sustain volunteers' interest in the program during this wait-time.

Community on Patrol will need a program headquarters, preferably an office, classroom or other location on campus. At this point, a coordinator should be selected and work with the planning committee to design the training component of the program. The training should include general information, introduction to buildings and staff, relevant patrol duties, conflict management training, adolescent issues, shadowing staff, and should engage volunteers in program implementation.