Awareity Announces Back To School Safety Contest
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In order for students to achieve academically, they must feel secure and comfortable in their learning environment. Is your school struggling to address student safety, bullying, cyberbullying, campus violence, suicide, etc.? As school begins again this fall, school safety is on the minds of administrators, students and parents nationwide. Recent studies have shown:
- Over 20% of students feel unsafe at school due to direct or observed teasing, threats, bullying, and other stressors.
- Bullying has become a parent’s greatest fear when it comes to their children’s safety. Thirty percent of parents fear bullying and cyber bullying over kidnapping, domestic terrorism, car accidents, suicide or any other incident.
- 62% of National Education Association members indicated they witnessed bullying two or more times a month.
- Incidents of targeted violence at school rarely were sudden, impulsive acts. In over 80% of the incidents, at least one person had information that the attacker was thinking about or planning the school attack.
In support of National School Safety Month, Awareity will be providing one deserving school a free implementation of their TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services) platform. Teachers, Parents and Administrators can visit http://www.awareity.com/public/Awareity-PR-SchoolSafetyContest.pdf to nominate their school and explain why they deserve to receive a free TIPS implementation for the 2011-2012 school year.
TIPS is a comprehensive web-based platform that empowers school administration to improve awareness and connect the dots with teachers, staff, students, parents, and community members. TIPS allows individuals to be heard anonymously or non-anonymously when reporting warning signs and incidents or responding to surveys throughout the year. With Awareity’s TIPS, students and parents can report:
- Bullying - Theft - Cyberbullying
- Violence - Threats to Harm - Drug/Alcohol Abuse
- Suicidal Threats - Weapons - Discrimination
When an incident report is made, all appropriate and designated school personnel receive an instant notification to login to their TIPS secured platform to review the incident. All actions taken by the safety team are documented and team members can review open or closed incidents, set up reminders for themselves or other team members, search/review related incidents as needed and access guidance and best practices to ensure responses are meeting legal and regulatory obligations.
TIPS is helping schools prevent the preventable and proactively address challenges like bullying, cyberbullying, school violence and more. To nominate your school in the Back to School Safety contest visit http://www.awareity.com/public/Awareity-PR-SchoolSafetyContest.pdf
About Awareity:
Awareity helps leading organizations prevent the preventable and transform the status quo. Awareity is reinventing the way schools improve safety and helping organizations prevent regulatory failures, compliance fines, lawsuits, privacy breaches, safety disconnects, operational challenges, ethical lapses, incident reporting failures, workplace violence and more. Awareity offers an innovative and cost-effective platform to connect the dots, eliminate embarrassing gaps and realize a better bottom line. For more information visit www.awareity.com or contact Awareity at info@awareity.com.
Contact:
Katie Weaver
402.730.0077
info@awareity.com
www.awareity.com
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