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$6 million from Section 97j available for Michigan schools to identify and collect concerning student behaviors and manage threats.

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Early Intervention Software

$6M from Section 97j

The recent independent report on the tragedy at Oxford High School noted, “Some administrators believed that a threat assessment only occurred when there was a direct threat to harm someone else, which is inconsistent with the District’s policy and risks missing concerning conduct or behaviors that could be a precursor to violence.” This emphasizes the critical importance of addressing concerns early and the need for tools to make sure no student slips through the cracks.

  • Michigan’s Section 97j Early Behavior Intervention Tools grant provides $6 million in funding (approximately $1800 per school) to acquire tools dedicated to recognizing initial signs of problematic behaviors that may lead to abuse, self-harm, or violence in schools. 
  • This funding provided by the state legislature allows every public and charter school in Michigan to purchase Raptor StudentSafe. 
  • The application for Section 97j funds was open in NexSys until March 15, 2024.
  • The patented StudentSafe technology from Raptor is the only solution that brings together all the systems that help schools recognize, document, support, and manage the wellbeing of individual students.  
  • The intuitive and robust platform includes the ability to capture low-level concerns, document interventions, conduct behavioral threat assessments and suicide risk assessments, and manage such cases to ensure positive student outcomes. 
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About StudentSafe

Many schools in Michigan today use paper forms, spreadsheets, or ineffective software to attempt to track student behaviors. Transitioning to a digital platform like StudentSafe offers a myriad of benefits, including:   

  • Helping to capture low-level concerns, allowing for easy documentation and tracking of student behavior 
  • Facilitating quick identification of patterns, which in turn enables timely interventions 
  • Streamlining collaboration as well as the roles of school counselors, administrators, and other staff  
  • Supporting consistent application of threat assessment protocols  
  • Protecting sensitive data with role-based permissions and SOC 2 security and privacy compliance
  • Raptor StudentSafe is a 2023 Campus Safety BEST Award Winner for empowering schools with early intervention software
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Nearly $20.5M via Stronger Connections Grant

Awards were announced on August 5, 2024

The Title IV, Part A (T4PA) Stronger Connections Grant Program (SCG), through the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act (BSCA), will provide 76 school entities throughout Michigan with nearly $20.5M to provide students with safer learning environments.

Allowable expenses include:

  • Professional development and training for school staff on student physical and mental health
  • Suicide prevention
  • Violence prevention
  • Crisis management
  • Conflict resolution
  • And more
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“The recent independent report on the tragedy at Oxford High School proves the critical importance of proactively identifying and addressing concerning behaviors as early as possible and emphasizes the need for tools to make sure that no student slips through the cracks,” said Dr. Amy Grosso, Director, and Expert in Residence at Raptor Technologies. “StudentSafe enables Michigan schools to rapidly provide appropriate interventions to the right students before behaviors escalate to a crisis point, quickly turning policy into action.” 

$328M from Section 31aa

Section 31aa of the FY24 budget allocates $328 million for schools to improve mental health and improve school safety with at least half of the funds to be spent on mental health.

Allowable school safety expenses include: 

  • Coordination with local law enforcement 
  • Training for school staff on threat assessment  
  • Training for school staff and students on threat response 
  • Training for school staff on crisis communication  
  • Safety infrastructure 
  • Student Safety Management System 
  • Any other school safety service or product necessary to improve or maintain security in buildings 

Allowable mental health expenses include: 

  • Hiring or contracting for support staff  
  • Implementing mental health screening tools 
  • Any other mental health service or product necessary to improve or maintain the mental health of students and staff 

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What Our Customers Say

“Traditional paper records create a challenge in securing sensitive student information. With StudentSafe, we can assign the specific access rights that people have. It’s both secure and readily available to the approved personnel,”
Liz MargolisExecutive Director of School Safety & District Operations at Ann Arbor Public School District
“We know kids who get to that threat assessment level don't tend to just vault all the way up there. That's why we wanted StudentSafe. There are precursory things that happen in their life that script out some of that path. We really have a long-term vision and goal for StudentSafe: to support student wellbeing with data so we can intercede with interventions and support services with our goal being to prevent a child from ever exhibiting behaviors that result in a threat assessment.”
Mike MatthewsDirector of Operations at Fairview Park City Schools
“StudentSafe is a tremendous asset. I’ve been doing threat assessment for about seven years. For me, three key benefits of Raptor StudentSafe is that the organization of the app itself completely walks you through the process, it gives you the ability to collect all that data and analyze it easily, and the ability to collaborate with each other is built in really well. If you want a great organizational tool to keep all your threat assessment information, StudentSafe is pretty complete.”
David Wrzesinski, Director of Safe SchoolsRobinson ISD, TX
“Raptor recently released its StudentSafe platform that helps schools recognize, document, and support the well-being of students. By empowering all staff to document and route information to key stakeholders, StudentSafe now gives schools the ability to track, analyze, and document early concerns, and escalate critical items for further assessment. Additionally, StudentSafe helps multidisciplinary teams at schools conduct threat assessments and electronically store the information.”
Mike Newton, 2023 Campus Safety Director of the Year Award WinnerElizabeth School District, CO
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