$2 million grant will help rural Missouri schools detect possible threats to school safetyDepartment of Justice grant uses technology software to alert suicidal or harmful threats to trained school intervention
As school safety remains a critical issue for students, teachers and families, researchers at the University of Missouri are using a $2 million grant from the Department of Justice to help identify and avert threats students or others may make on school grounds involving potential harm to themselves or others.
The phrase 'mental health' has been used repeatedly in politics to avoid the gun control debate. But there was a significant lack of access to mental health care in Uvalde prior to the shooting.
After the 2014 shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, benefits from positive behavior interventions stopped for Black students in the St. Louis area, new research shows.