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Prevent 2 Protect project launches, aims to prevent mass violence by addressing mental health

May 18, 2023 - News

Can providing mental health and community resources to high-risk adolescents prevent mass violence? Can this holistic model be replicated in other communities? A team of school safety experts from Michigan State University's Department of Psychiatry and Safe and Sound Schools, a national nonprofit school...

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Prevent 2 Protect project underway at Michigan State

May 11, 2023 - News

(CBS DETROIT) - Prevent to protect. That's the idea behind the adolescent targeted violence prevention program at Michigan State University. CBS Detroit exclusively previewed the project Wednesday. It's a Michigan-based initiative at MSU's Department of Psychiatry that will pair both a mental health mentor and an...

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CBS Detroit previews Michigan State University study on mental health crisis among youth

May 10, 2023 - News

(CBS DETROIT) - Three mothers -- Laura Marshall, Michelle Massey-Barnes, and Rachel Cuschieri-Murray -- have all experienced mental health crises with their children. They teamed up, formed a Facebook group, and now are helping hundreds of other families across the state find information...

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Advocates push for mental health care to combat gun violence in Michigan

April 13, 2023 - News

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - Mental health advocates are calling attention to the need for improved mental health treatment availability in light of newly signed gun legislation. One of their main concerns is mental health treatment availability. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation,...

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‘Michigan Model’ national pilot program to help curb acts of mass violence

March 22, 2023 - News

$15 million state grant will support Center for Targeted Violence Prevention Michigan State University’s Department of Psychiatry is launching a pilot program – with a $15 million grant from the state of Michigan – to help curb acts of violence and spare...

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MSU deploys counselors in training to support students, faculty, staff

March 13, 2023 - News

LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - It has been one month since the deadly mass shooting at Michigan State University. Now, the university is working with police and mental health experts to help the Spartan community heal from the trauma they experienced. Back in...

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Preventing targeted gun violence in our schools

February 1, 2023 - News

Editor’s note: The views expressed in this article are the author’s own and do not necessarily represent the views of The DO or the AOA. All too often, schools are added to the list: Columbine High School, Sandy Hook Elementary, Marjory Stoneman...

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Michigan schools race to increase safety through high tech, mental health

December 2, 2022 - News

DEARBORN HEIGHTS — Westwood Community School District Superintendent Stiles Simmons need only take a few steps into Thorne Intermediate School before pointing to the new security measures installed since 2021’s Oxford High School shooting. Simmons must be buzzed into the building and,...

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MSU, NPI to launch national pilot program to curb gun violence in schools

August 22, 2022 - News

In 2022, over 400 mass shootings occurred in the U.S. There has been a total of roughly 102 reports of gunfire on school grounds, with 27 of those categorized as mass shootings. Forty-one people, including mostly children and adolescents, were killed,...

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Michigan pilot program to help curb acts of mass violence

August 11, 2022 - News

$15 million state grant will support targeted violence prevention Editor’s note: Initially called the Michigan Model, the program was renamed Prevent 2 Protect in 2023. During a critical time in U.S. history, and in a year that has seen more than 350 mass...

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Michigan State University receives $15M for pilot program to prevent violence

July 7, 2022 - News

EAST LANSING, Mich. (WILX) - In a time plagued by gun violence, Michigan is putting money into prevention. The Michigan State University Department of Psychiatry will receive $15 million in state funding for its new Center for Targeted Violence Prevention. Experts said it’s a one-of-a-kind pilot...

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The Tragic Lesson of an Averted School Shooting

April 12, 2022 - News

In 2018, a rural Michigan high school student named Aidan Ingalls was arrested after his mother reported that he was plotting to shoot his classmates and blow up his school. Ingalls spent a year in a juvenile detention facility under psychiatric...

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