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What if there was a better way to identify and disrupt at-risk individuals before they attack? As I review headlines from stories in mainstream media, local news reports, and as I review numerous conversations on platforms like LinkedIn… a lot of people are asking why aren’t we identifying and disrupting the at-risk individuals who are in distress, in crisis, and escalating towards an attack before they attack? What if there was a better and proven way to identify and disrupt more at-risk individuals before they attack? Here’s some good news for you among all the bad news, there is a better and proven way, andRead More →

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the new shiny object that has a lot of people talking about it and trying it out for a lot of different purposes.  AI has great potential for solving some big problems with healthcare, transportation, logistics, research, learning, and more. It is well documented that AI could also be a threat in many ways. AI can be manipulated to deliver misinformation and biased results to mislead people, spread false rumors, violate copyrights, violate privacy, create security risks, and many forward-looking leaders are concerned about many other potential threats to humanity. We know AI is being utilized by evil doers to manipulateRead More →

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Prevention gaps are leaving schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities vulnerable to more shootings, violence, suicides, corruption, sexual assaults, human trafficking, bullying, and more. What are prevention gaps? Prevention gaps are dangerous and way too common in schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities.  Prevention gaps keep the critically needed pre-incident indicators from the appropriate community resources who are unable to see the bigger picture about at-risk individuals and then are unable to intervene and prevent BEFORE the incident or tragedy occurs. When you read post-incident reports and hear news stories after tragedies occur, it is frustrating to find out again and again how the at-riskRead More →

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If you were aware of a proven solution that is currently helping communities, schools, and workplaces to stop shootings, violence, suicides, and numerous other unwanted and costly tragedies BEFORE they can occur… would you tell other people about it or keep it to yourself? I am passionate about helping other people and I want to help anyone reading this blog. For me, I want to tell other people and help you be a CHAMPION so we can start saving more lives, futures, millions of dollars, reputations, and more.  This blog is me telling others about solutions that work and hoping you and others who areRead More →

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Allow me to get straight to the point with the facts on what is missing and why we are (but should not be) seeing record levels of shootings, violence, suicides, and other incidents. What is missing: Communities, schools and workplaces are not equipped with the appropriate tools, training, and resources. What is missing is validated by the 2023 National Threat Assessment Report (NTAC) that said: In short, NTAC’s examination of the attacks contained in this report indicates that targeted violence is preventable when communities are equipped with the appropriate tools, training, and resources to intervene before violence occurs. – 2023 Mass Attacks in Public SpacesRead More →

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#1 Almost everyone in schools, higher education, workplaces, and communities (except the evil doers) prefer preventing incidents over responding to incidents.  Preventing incidents from happening requires a coordinated and focused community effort on pre-incident intervention and prevention actions with at-risk individuals by First Preventers. The First Preventers Prevention Platform empowers and equips community resources to take proactive pre-incident prevention actions. #2 Soaring numbers of at-risk individuals are responsible for record levels of shootings, violence, sex assaults, suicides, and other incidents that require more effective and coordinated actions by community resources to identify, help, and intervene with each and every at-risk individual at the right times and onRead More →

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Getting Started What is Pre-Incident Prevention? Pre-Incident Prevention is the process of identifying Pre-Incident Indicators and then connecting and acting on them to address an escalating individual BEFORE an incident occurs. Why are Pre-Incident Prevention tools and training critically needed? According to the National Threat Assessment Center (NTAC) within US Secret Service, ALL 180 attackers in 173 mass attacks exhibited “Pre-Incident Indicators” before the attacks, but communities lack appropriate tools and training to achieve Pre-Incident Prevention. I already have a reporting system in my community, I’m good right? Not quite! Collecting Pre-Incident Indicators from potentially hundreds of Community Sources from multiple reporting system options andRead More →

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In the aftermath of tragedies, families and victims often have no other recourse but to sue the organization (school, business, government, etc.), the shooters/family, or other third parties. Lawsuits and settlements over the years have been trending up and up: 2000 Columbine School Shooting Settlement                 $2.5 Million 2012 Virginia Tech Shooting Settlement                         $11.1 Million 2018 Michigan State Settlement (USA Gymnastics)         $500 Million 2020 MGM Concert Shooting                                         $800 Million 2022 Oxford School Shooting (filed not settled)              $200 Million 2022 Uvalde School Shooting (filed not settled)              $27 Billion Class Action Other post-incident settlements settled by the Department of Justice/FBI: 2021 Charleston, SC Church Shooting                             $88Read More →

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It is a great honor to share this press release from the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE) as they are proactively bolstering safety, security, and health in their schools utilizing Awareity’s award-winning prevention platform. I want to also recognize OSDE’s leadership for engaging with our team in in-depth discussions regarding the recurring problems that are leaving student, faculty, staff, and schools at risk to increasing shootings, violence, abuse, bullying/cyberbullying, suicides, and soaring liabilities too. Recurring problems like pre-incident indicators are almost always available before incidents occur, but the indicators (warning signs, leakage, behaviors, history, etc.) are not being collected from scattered “sources” across theRead More →