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 program that will stop school violence before it’s too late. The program will help identify and assess children at risk for committing violent acts ahead of it happening.
As a child psychiatrist, much of Dr. Alyse Ley’s work involves trauma. Shortly after the shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida, Ley found herself working with survivors of the unthinkable. It changed her outlook entirely.
“I thought we needed to do something beyond what we’re doing, beyond the research, beyond just looking at the incidents in order to stop them before they occur,” Ley said.
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