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Handle With Care notification system expands across Tennessee to connect first responders with schools
Summary
Evie Watanabe, Tennessee's statewide Handle With Care coordinator, reported rapid growth of the program that alerts schools when a child has been present on an emergency call so schools can provide trauma‑aware supports.
Evie Watanabe, statewide Handle With Care coordinator at the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI), described rapid expansion of the program at the Resilient Tennessee Collaborative Summit and urged counties to adopt consistent reporting practices.
Handle With Care is a notification system first developed in West Virginia and now used in Tennessee to allow first responders to notify a child’s school when a child was present at an incident (for…
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