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Panelists from Eradicate Hate, Boston Children's Hospital and OSPI outline school-based prevention and threat-assessment safeguards
Summary
Panelists described primary and secondary prevention: Eradicate Hate's Upend Hate trained 300 students who documented 100+ interventions (including two averted school shootings), Boston Children's described five core tasks for community resilience, and OSPI outlined tiered behavioral threat assessment and regional safety centers.
Panelists Brett Steele (President, Eradicate Hate), Dr. Heidi Ellis (clinical child psychologist, Boston Children's Hospital/Harvard Medical School) and Amber Winn (Office of Superintendent of Public Instruction School Safety Center) told the task force that multidisciplinary, behavior-focused interventions reduce bias and increase the chance that at-risk youth get support rather than immediate criminalization.
"We know that when you take a proactive approach ... they will take those actions," Brett Steele said, describing Eradicate Hate's Upend Hate…
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