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 **Improving School Safety: The 2nd Annual National Summit of State Tip Lines** October 2019 | Volume 12 | Issue 9
  A diverse group of professionals—law enforcement, school  administrators, educators, healthcare professionals, social workers, researchers  and community members—will convene for the 2nd  Annual National Summit of State Tip Lines: Intersection of Law Enforcement,  Education, and Mental Health later this  month. The Nevada Department of Education and Nevada Department of Public  Safety are sponsoring the three-day event in Reno, beginning October 22, 2019. The summit will cover a wide variety of topics related to  school safety and state tip lines, including the following panels and  presentations: Twenty Years Since Columbine: Lessons Learned  and Best Practices for Creating Safe Schools
          Blueprints for Tip Line Operations, including  barriers to success
          Response Protocols for School Multidisciplinary  Teams
          Trauma Informed and Resilience-Oriented  Leadership Experts at the summit include Susan Payne, the  Founder and Former Executive Director of Safe2Tell and a 28-year law enforcement veteran. Safe2Tell is the Colorado anonymous system  for reporting potentially harmful student behavior and a source of information critical  to school safety. Safe2Tell received 19,511 actionable tips during the 2018-2019  school year1 related to potential school violence and self-harm. Payne, who now works with  the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at the University of  Colorado, will be speaking with colleague Dr. Beverly Kingston on safe schools best  practices and lessons learned over the twenty years since Columbine. Keynote speaker Dr.  Peter Langman is a recognized national expert on the psychology of mass  violence perpetrators and will be presenting on his research about preventing  school shootings. Dr. Langman has written several books as well as a COPS Offices  publication*,**A Comparison of Averted and Completed School  Attacks from the Police Foundation's Averted School Violence Database*,  with Dr. Frank Straub of the Police Foundation. For more information, or to attend the summit, please  contact Debbie Williams with the State of Nevada Department of Education - Office  for a Safe and Respectful Learning Environment at debbiewilliams@doe.nv.gov. **Read More:**A Comparison of  Averted and Completed School Attacks from the Police Foundation's Averted  School Violence Database A Preliminary  Report on the Police Foundation's Averted School Violence Database Preventing and  Addressing Bullying and Intolerance: A Guide for Law EnforcementSchool Tip Line  Toolkit: A Blueprint for Implementation and Sustainability References:1. Press Release ‘Safe2Tell reflects on record tip submission during 2018-2019  school year’. August 19, 2019. Tweet
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