Can The Next School Shooting Be Prevented With Compassion?

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🗓️ 16 June 2022

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The Uvalde school shooting has renewed questions of how to prevent the next shooting. For many who've opened fire in schools, the path to violence has common traits. A growing number of schools are adopting an evidence-based approach to preventing violence on their campuses. The plan recognizes that a student contemplating violence is a student in crisis. Today, a look at that plan in action: how a school district in Oregon has been turning troubled youth away from violence for nearly two decades.

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0:00.0	You're listening to shortwave from NPR.
0:04.8	Hey short waivers, Emily Quang here.
0:08.6	The school shooting in Uvalde, Texas has once again left people agonizing over the question,
0:14.1	how do we prevent this?
0:16.0	And we're here to tell you that schools across the country have been trying to figure that
0:20.6	out.
0:22.0	Retrochattergy, NPR's mental health correspondent has looked into this and she's here to
0:25.8	share some of her reporting.
0:27.2	Hi, Rita.
0:28.2	Hi, Emily.
0:29.2	So tell us about what you've learned.
0:30.8	Yeah, so the approach that's known to have the most success is based on a method that was
0:35.2	developed by the U.S. Secret Service and a lot of schools have in fact adopted it.
0:40.0	And the idea is that school staff work closely with law enforcement, families, mental health
0:45.8	professionals to identify kids who are at risk of doing something violent before they
0:52.1	hurt anyone and then steer them off of that part of violence.
0:56.5	Today on the show, how one school district in Oregon has been turning trouble youth
1:01.2	away from violence for nearly two decades.
1:04.4	You're listening to shortwave, the Daily Science podcast from NPR.
1:11.0	All right, Rita, let's walk through this method that's starting to be implemented in
1:25.2	schools.
1:26.2	What are its key components?
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