Content note: This story addresses topics that include gun violence and suicide prevention. For many MSU health sciences researchers, addressing underrecognized issues and including undertreated communities in their work is essential to building a healthier Michigan where no one is left behind. Their efforts are part of a long arc of change in medical research. […]
Prevent 2 Protect, a gun violence prevention project, launched at MSU following the Oxford High School shooting. Prevent 2 Protect, which has previously served three different regions across the state including Ingham County, has expanded to Wayne County. Video shows perspectives from two workers with the program, including former Okemos School Board President Mary Gebara. […]
Prevent 2 Protect, or P2P, is a first-of-its-kind project focused on preventing targeted adolescent violence in schools. P2P takes a multidisciplinary approach, combining expertise from mental health, education and law enforcement to assess and support high-risk K-12 students. Housed in Michigan State University’s Department of Psychiatry, the project serves four regions — West Shore ESD, […]
Highlights: Prevent 2 Protect is an unprecedented project taking a multi-disciplinary approach to preventing adolescent-targeted school violence and supporting high-risk K-12 students Bill 5549 was signed into law by Gov. Whitmer, requiring school boards and governing bodies to put together behavior threat assessment and management (BTAM) teams The Prevent 2 Protect team supports schools in […]
EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) -By helping one, we can save many; that’s the motto at the heart of a violence intervention program out of Michigan State University. Prevent 2 Protect is the only violence intervention program of its kind, making its start in 2022, just a few short years after a tragic mass shooting at […]
The goal of preventive medicine is to find and treat problems before they become major health issues. Prevent 2 Protect — an MSU initiative that recently began supporting the community through schools in Ingham County and will soon expand to Wayne County — uses a similar approach with high-risk students to prevent acts of targeted violence. Prevent […]
February 13 marked the one-year anniversary of the 2023 shooting at MSU. No classes were held that day to allow students to reflect and grieve. At spaces around campus and in the East Lansing community, Spartans joined together to reflect, grieve and honor those who were lost and all who were impacted by the tragic event. […]
With a focus on changing the lives of kids and their communities, Alyse Folino Ley, D.O., director of Prevent 2 Protect, says the efforts of this program are already being felt in school districts and communities in Michigan just two years after it kicked off. The Prevent 2 Protect program launched in October 2022 funded […]
The Franklin College Pulliam School of Journalism and the Trust for Trauma Journalism hosted the first day of their annual National Trauma Journalism Symposium on the campus of Franklin College Thursday. The event’s opening speaker was Dr. Alyse Ley, director of Prevent 2 Protect, an adolescent-targeted violence prevention program. Ley’s organization, P2P, operates out of Michigan and […]
In 2018, Aaron Stark stood on stage in Boulder, Colorado, and began his Ted Talk by uttering the words, “I was almost a school shooter.” Stark, a high school student in 1996, admitted through tear-streaked eyes and a quivering voice that in a moment of pain and anger, he almost committed a terrible atrocity. The […]
