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The most common excuse from leadership after their organization experiences an incident or tragedy is: “We failed to Connect the Dots.” The most common finding in hundreds of post-event reports after incidents and tragedies including Columbine, 9-11 Commission, Penn State, Sandy Hook, Fort Hood, Paris, San Bernardino, Orlando and others was: “They failed to Connect the Dots.” Of course the multi-million-dollar question (based on hundreds of multi-million-dollar lawsuits and tragedy responses), is why are organizations “failing to connect the dots”?? The short list of answers are: Failing to Collect the Dots – you cannot connect the dots when you don’t have dots to connect FailingRead More →

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With a strong focus on community-based prevention, Umonhon Nation Schools is providing a new resource called TIPS to report potential school safety concerns. Community members (students, parents, employees, neighbors, etc.) almost always observe red flags and warning signs prior to a violent event, but too often, this information is not shared with the right people and the opportunity for early intervention is missed. The TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services) Platform from Awareity allows students, parents, faculty, staff and community members to anonymously or confidentially report bullying, drugs/alcohol, abuse/neglect, harassment, self-harm, suicide risks, vandalism, threats to harm, weapons, truancy or other potentially disruptiveRead More →

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How can we start identifying at-risk individuals and preventing mass shootings, violence, terrorism and acts of evil? Is your community connecting the dots? Check out Awareity’s Prevention Infographic to review the dangerous gaps and disconnects that exist within communities and organizations today and the 6 Essential Steps to Prevention that can start saving lives today!   To download full infographic, click here. For a more in-depth look at a community-based approach to violence prevention, click here. Or to review our recent webinar discussing strategies your community can implement today, click here.Read More →

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Awareity, Inc. is expanding their leadership in proven community-based prevention services and enhancing their Threat Assessment, Incident Management & Prevention Services (TIPS) platform with a new hotline/phone service option from Childhelp. Childhelp, also a leader in prevention, has been leading the way with child abuse prevention services since 1959 and a nationwide hotline since 1982. As violence continues to escalate across the Nation, it is evident that more immediate and proactive prevention solutions are needed. Community members (students, parents, employees, neighbors, etc.) almost always observe red flags and concerning behaviors prior to a violent event, but too often, this information is not shared with theRead More →

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Awareity selected for Higher Ed Tech Decision’s Top of the Line Higher Education Products for 2015 Awareity is proud to announce that our MOAT/TIPS platform was selected by higher education end users and integrators as one of the top 15 products that made their jobs easier and more efficient this past year. The products – from switchers to digital signage, apps to podiums – enabled each user to strengthen their security tactics, revamp the ways college students collaborate, and helped keep some money in the bank. As a result, campuses have become safer, classrooms are more engaging, learning strategies are up to date, and theRead More →

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On December 23, 2015 parts of Ukraine were without power and the blackout was due to black hat hackers using the sophisticated BlackEnergy trojan horse malware. (click here for full story) The BlackEnergy trojan was able to disable parts of Ukraine’s power grid leaving organizations and neighborhoods in the dark…are you, your organization and your local power grid utility paying attention? The BlackEnergy trojan also delivered a version of KillDisk that overwrites data and documents with random data and can make the Operating System unbootable…are you paying attention? And AGAIN…the way the black hat hackers are getting BlackEnergy into the power grid organization is usingRead More →

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Hutchinson Community College Launches Awareity’s TIPS Prevention Platform: A Community-wide Connection to Improve Safety and Security Hutchinson Community College recently implemented Awareity’s web-based incident reporting and prevention platform, TIPS (Threat Assessment, Incident Management and Prevention Services), to improve campus safety and increase efficiencies in threat assessment and investigation processes. A pioneering leader for their region, HutchCC is the first college in Kansas to take advantage of TIPS, and joins colleges nationwide in an effort to improve bias reporting and violence prevention. HutchCC is dedicated to maintaining a safe campus and secure learning environment for all students and employees, and launching Awareity’s TIPS empowers members ofRead More →

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Centralized and Secure Record-Keeping is Key for Virginia Colleges By now, most colleges and universities have taken steps to form threat assessment teams – groups providing consultation and assistance on campus regarding potentially dangerous situations. The teams investigate a range of possible cases, including threats made by students, employees, faculty members, and others in the community, and should be notified anytime someone in the college observes or learns about a threat of violence or a situation that appears to be threatening. Check out this recent article featured in Security Products Magazine discussing how several colleges in Virginia have taken advantage of TIPS to help manageRead More →

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I have had the privilege to speak about student safety at numerous Education conferences in the USA, Canada, South Korea and Japan over the past 5 years, and no matter where I am speaking, there is one question that produces the same audience response. The question and my response would go something like this… While sharing evidence-based data on student safety and reviewing lessons learned from tragic incidents like Columbine, Virginia Tech, Sandy Hook, Marysville-Pilchuck and other mass shootings and violence, I use post-event reports to reveal common grievances and concerning behaviors displayed by at-risk individuals BEFORE they executed their acts of evil. Most ofRead More →

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San Bernardino, Paris and a growing number of terror and violent acts prove over and over again why a new and better PREVENTION strategy is needed…and it is needed right now! Would you rather PREVENT violence and terror acts or REACT to them?? Using lessons learned from San Bernardino, Paris and hundreds of other attacks and tragedies, the new PREVENTION strategy requires a change in focus and it requires the right tools. Let’s start with focus – terrorism, mass shootings and others acts of evil are committed by evil people, so the new PREVENTION strategy needs to focus on identifying people who may be planningRead More →