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 2 Protect is a groundbreaking program that helps assess and manage students who have been identified as high-risk through behavioral threat assessment. Prevent 2 Protect aims to connect high-risk students to their community and enable them to develop a sense of belonging.
Since Prevent 2 Protect was launched in 2022, referrals for more than 55 students have been received and more than 20 have been enrolled in the program.
“Our students are doing exceedingly well,” said Alyse Folino Ley, a child and adolescent psychiatrist, Prevent 2 Protect director and a professor in the MSU colleges of Osteopathic Medicine and Human Medicine. “Their individual successes include steps like reenrolling in school, joining school activities, getting back on the path to graduation and contributing in a positive way to their community. They are getting the services they need.”
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