Thirty-four percent (34%) of students say they are aware of an individual who poses a risk to their school, according to Awareity’s 2014 Student Safety Report.
The 2014 Student Safety Report unfortunately validates that many of the same overall risks and liabilities identified in last year’s report still exist. The results reveal students observe and know about things most school administrators don’t. Students are talking about concerning behaviors (hurting others, self-harm/cutting themselves, suicidal ideations, bringing weapons to school, drugs/alcohol and other risks) among themselves, but unfortunately these valuable pre-incident indicators are not being shared with the right people – school threat assessment and prevention teams.
Awareity’s online student survey is designed to gather current data on school climate, and responses from nearly 6500 K-12 students (from across 14 states and Canada) revealed numerous gaps in schools and painful challenges facing youth today. The 2014 report highlights the most critical findings and outlines the top 6 stepsevery school administrator should be taking to proactively prevent mounting liabilities related to student safety concerns, bullying, online behaviors, incident reporting failures and school response efforts.
The report can be downloaded in full at http://awareity.com/2014-student-safety-report/.
A Prevention Gapidemic: Part One
May 2, 2014Twenty-eight innocent students and staff members were killed in 44 U.S.A. school shootings in the 14 months following the tragedy at Sandy Hook.
