LINCOLN, Neb. — Rick Shaw, president and CEO of Awareity, has been selected as a speaker for the 2012 Virginia School & Campus Safety Training Forum in Hampton, Va., July 30-Aug. 1.
Each year, constituents from a broad range of disciplines and backgrounds assemble at the Training Forum to focus on the safety and security of all students and staff in Virginia’s school systems and institutions of higher education. School Resource Officers, School Security Officers, DARE officers, school counselors, teachers, administrators, security directors, hearing officers, campus police and security officers, and many others come together annually to share ideas and learn how to collectively address the opportunities and challenges in keeping our schools and campuses safe.
Shaw’s presentation, Bullying and Alarming Student Safety Trends: Lessons Learned In Preventing vs. Reacting, will discuss how recent studies of widely publicized bullycide tragedies indicate educators often have the necessary information to avoid tragedy, but the challenge is getting that information into the hands of the right people at the right time. Virginia students rank bullying as their greatest threat to safety, which leads to alarming trends with lower student achievement, as well as truancy, depression, anxiety, violence, and suicides. Lessons learned reveal students, teachers, safety teams, administration, parents, and others are not equipped to handle preventable incidents.
Shaw will share real-world school successes for improving student and campus safety and provide attendees with proven strategies for anonymous incident reporting, incident investigations, taking appropriate actions based on OCR DCLs, Clery Act and state laws, federal laws, legal due diligence, preventing recurring incidents and documentation obligations.
Who: Rick Shaw, CEO, Awareity
When: July 30-August 1, 2012
Where: Hampton, Va.
Registration: http://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/vcss/training/safetyforum/
About Awareity
Awareity helps organizations prevent the preventable by transforming the status quo and equipping individuals to connect-the-dots. Awareity is equipping organizations of all types to improve safety and prevent regulatory failures, compliance fines, lawsuits, privacy breaches, safety disconnects, operational challenges, ethical lapses, incident reporting failures, workplace violence and more. Awareity’s multi-award-winning TIPS platform offers innovative, proven and more cost-effective ways to connect-the-dots, eliminate embarrassing gaps and realize a better bottom line. For more information visit www.tipsprevent.com or contact Awareity at info@awareity.com.
