Raptor StudentSafe^™ Early Intervention Software

Funds from Section 97j were allocated for Michigan schools to purchase early behavior intervention tools, along with training and implementation services free of charge to new and existing StudentSafe customers.

Section 97j

Identify and collect concerning student behaviors and manage threats with Raptor StudentSafe

In 2024, Michigan’s Section 97j Early Behavior Intervention Tools grant allocated $6 million to support tools for identifying early signs of problematic behaviors that could lead to abuse, self-harm, or violence in schools. This year, funds from Section 97j have been allocated to provide new and existing StudentSafe customers with training and implementation services free of charge.

The patented StudentSafe technology is the only solution that unifies systems to help schools recognize, document, support, and manage student wellbeing. It enables staff to capture low-level concerns, document interventions, and leverage customizable forms to conduct behavioral threat and suicide risk assessments as well as manage cases of bullying, sexual harassment, and other wellbeing concerns.
StudentSafe is available to support the duties of behavioral threat assessment and management teams, as required by the recently signed House Bill (HB) 5549.
Separate funding under 97j was allotted to provide StudentSafe training and implementation free of charge to new and existing clients via Raptor’s Compliance and Success Program (CSP).
The Michigan State Police Office of School Safety has contracted with SIGMA, a Raptor Technolgies company, to provide Mi-BTAM training across the state for school-based threat assessment teams in K-12 public, charter, and private schools.

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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 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.
Raptor StudentSafe is a 2023 Campus Safety BEST Award Winner for empowering schools with early intervention software.

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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.

Raptor StudentSafe Compliance and Success Program

Under 97j, the state has allocated funds specifically for the training and implementation of Raptor StudentSafe through the StudentSafe Compliance and Success Program (CSP). The CSP program includes the following, at no cost to the district:

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.

Don’t delay! Free StudentSafe training and implementation is available for the 2024-25 school year only.

Mi-BTAM Training Available

Michigan K-12 public, charter, and private schools can access state-funded training delivered by BTAM experts from SIGMA Threat Management, a Raptor company, in partnership with the Michigan State Police Office of School Safety. This training helps threat assessment teams meet the requirements of HB 5549. Learning objectives include:

How to screen cases to see if a threat assessment is warranted.
How to gather information from multiple sources.
How to make an assessment.

“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.”

$151M+ from Section 31aa

For FY25, $26.5M was allocated for Section 31aa. An additional $125M in supplemental funding was later allocated, bringing the total amount to $151.5M. Districts must expend their funds by September 30, 2026.

Allowable school safety expenses include:

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

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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,”

“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.”

“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.”

“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.”

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