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Keeping Michigan communities safe while helping children and families

August 20, 2025 - News

When schools are impacted by violence, communities are left wondering if, and how, it could have been prevented. Members of the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine are working together to implement a solution. Prevent 2 Protect is a first-of-its-kind...

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This first-of-its-kind program could stop Michigan’s next school shooter. It’s now in Metro Detroit

May 4, 2025 - News

Lincoln Park — An intervention program designed to find and thwart the next school shooter in Michigan has moved into its first Metro Detroit school district to train employees in a first-of-its-kind model in the nation. Prevent 2 Protect is a $15 million...

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The Spartans championing better health for all in Michigan

March 26, 2025 - News

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...

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MSU-based school gun violence prevention project expanding to Wayne County

February 18, 2025 - News

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...

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Ask the expert: How MSU violence prevention project supports new school safety bill

February 17, 2025 - News

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...

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New bill strengthens school safety– how MSU violence prevention project fits in

February 12, 2025 - News

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...

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Violence intervention program seeing success in Ingham County schools

February 12, 2025 - News

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...

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Ingham County students benefit from MSU violence prevention program. Lincoln Park students are next.

February 11, 2025 - News

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 —...

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The year in review: MSU experts, top headlines of 2024

December 19, 2024 - News

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...

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Prevent 2 Protect team works to improve lives for students in Michigan

November 19, 2024 - News

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...

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Trauma Journalism Symposium examines efforts to identify future school shooters

September 20, 2024 - News

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...

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Prevent 2 Protect: Preventing Adolescent Acts of Violence Through Community Collaboration

April 4, 2024 - News

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...

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