Keeping Michigan Students Safe
Explore Michigan’s school safety laws and funding opportunities—and discover the solutions that help schools stay compliant, secure funding, and enhance campus safety.
$321M from Section 31aa
For FY26, $321M was allocated for Section 31aa.
Allowable school safety expenses include:
- Mental health screening tools
- 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
- An emergency response system
- And more
Updates regarding the availability of funds for the FY 2026-2027 will be shared on this page once available.
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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.”
Michigan House Bill 5549
Signed into law by Governor Gretchen Whitmer on January 22, 2025, House Bill 5549 mandates that by no later than October 1, 2026, the board of a school district or intermediate school district, board of directors of a public school academy, or governing body of a nonpublic school shall ensure that each school under its jurisdiction has a behavior threat assessment and management team in place. These BTAM teams must be comprised of certain individuals and duties include:
- Defining prohibited and concerning behavior and educating the school community on warning signs that may indicate that someone is a risk to self or others.
- Monitoring, assessing, and performing inquiries into concerning behavior.
- Distinguishing between credible and noncredible threats.
- Developing a central reporting mechanism and educating the school community on how and what to report.
- Developing a written plan to assist a student who is engaging in concerning behavior, using supportive measures alongside punitive measures when necessary.
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 protocols relating to behavioral threat management, suicide risk, bullying, sexual harassment, and more.
- Protecting sensitive data with role-based permissions and SOC 2 security and privacy compliance.
StudentSafe is available to support the duties of behavioral threat assessment and management teams, as required by House Bill (HB) 5549. It also helps schools meet bullying investigation and documentation requirements outlined in the Matt Epling Safe School Law.
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Raptor StudentSafe Compliance and Success Program
The Raptor StudentSafe Compliance and Success Program (CSP) can help further support the effectiveness of behavioral threat assessment and management teams throughout the state with:
- Onsite training to provide threat assessment and student support teams with a comprehensive understanding of the significance of low-level concerns.
- Customized video resources that cover essential functions of the system, such as adding new concerns, escalating issues to an assessment level, and creating new assessments.
- Access to PublicSchoolWORKS self-paced curriculum which includes a session on identifying and reporting low-level concerns, and modules on bullying, suicide prevention, and homelessness.
- Monthly Compliance and Success meetings to ensure that data within StudentSafe is compiled in a meaningful way that allows for districts to improve their processes and outcomes.
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Supporting Standard Response Protocol (SRP) Adoption in Michigan Schools
House Bills 4095 and 4096 were both enacted on December 31, 2024. House Bill 4095 requires public and nonpublic schools to implement the standardized response terminology described in House Bill 4096 by the 2026-27 school year. The terminology must include direction for usage in response to certain situations, and direction concerning the use of a color-coding system to indicate when to use the terminology.
Raptor Technologies is officially licensed to include The “I Love U Guys” Foundation’s Standard Response Protocol (SRP) as part of Raptor Alert and Raptor Badge Alert, including terminology and iconography, to simplify adoption.
Related Resources
Early Intervention Tools for Michigan Schools
Watch on-demand to discover how Raptor StudentSafe empowers schools to proactively identify and support students in need.
The Role of Trusted Adults in Student Resilience and Wellbeing
Host Dr. Amy Grosso speaks with Melissa Kree of Oxford Community Schools about fostering resilience in students.
How Schools Use SRP Every Day
Watch on demand as Jim French of the “I Love U Guys” Foundation walks through what a day in the life of school safety and how teams use the Standard Response Protocol (SRP) in everyday situations.