The Bradley County Schools system has implemented a new program to help keep children safe.
TIPS: Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services, an award‐winning web‐based risk
management and incident reporting platform from Awareity. The TIPS platform is successfully being used in
multiple school districts across the United States to identify, prevent and effectively intervene in threatening
behaviors.
TIPS provides an avenue for all students, parents, faculty, staff and community members to safely report
disconcerting behaviors, suspicious incidents, or general safety/security concerns to school staff and the school
resource officer, or SRO. Reporting may be made anonymously or openly. Concerns which may be reported include, but are not limited to, bullying, cyber‐bullying, weapons, drug/alcohol use, vandalism of school property, threats of violence, suicide risk, sexual harassment, abuse and truancy.
“TIPS is a tool to be utilized by school administrators and law enforcement to increase awareness of student safety
and concerning behaviors within our schools,” said Scotty Hernandez, safety and security coordinator. “This tool
has the potential to detect, deter, and disrupt unwanted behavior or criminal activity.”
Funding for TIPS in Bradley County Schools is through a Safe Schools grant. “We strive to provide a safe learning environment for all Bradley County students,” Bradley County Schools Director Johnny McDaniel said.
TIPS does not take the place of emergency police services, but it does provide all stakeholders involved in Bradley
County Schools with another avenue to deter or disrupt unacceptable behaviors or illegal activities.
“If someone has information about concerning behaviors or suspicious activities that could potentially jeopardize the safety and security of students, faculty, or staff, the individual can access TIPS from the Bradley County Schools’ website and report that information,” Hernandez said.
Reports made through TIPS will be reviewed by administrators at the particular school and by the SRO, if
warranted. Reports can also be shared with SROs at other school locations in the event of bullying between students at different schools, harassment on the bus, etc. Since its implementation, the SROs have taken
advantage of TIPS to keep track of over 400 reports, ranging from daily log activities, custody issues, and juvenile citations to teaching “DARE”; and making arrests. TIPS makes it simple to see and track who has done what
regarding any particular incident.
TIPS allows school administrators and safety team members to investigate and coordinate actions and securely
share information during investigation, intervention, and prevention efforts. All actions are easily documented,
and team members can easily see all incidents for their school, review individual incident reports, and search or
review related incidents in real‐time.
The system can be accessed through the school’s website by visiting http://www.bradley schools.org and clicking
on the TIPS: Report Incident logo. Specific student or school safety concerns can also be reported by calling 918‐
746‐6868.
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 prevention platform to
connect the dots, eliminate embarrassing gaps and realize a better bottom line.
Contact:
Katie Johnson
402.730.0077
info@awareity.com
www.awareity.com
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