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MHA Associate, Dr. Randazzo recently traveled to Alberta, Canada to deliver a workshop in which she taught both students and staff methods for preventing school shootings.

Alberta Primetime
http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Segments.aspx?FlashVars=Video/PT_WCBthreat.flv

Edmonton Journal
Thursday Oct 22 on-line -  Friday Oct 23 print
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/NAIT+workshop+aims+prevent+school+shootings/2133163/story.html
Wednesday Oct. 21 – On-line and print
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/Edmonton+hostage+taking+spontaneous+attention+seeking+experts/2130045/story.html
National Post
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=2135759
Saskatoon Star Phoenix
http://www.thestarphoenix.com/news/Secret+Service+trains+staff+Alta+school/2135257/story.html#
Metro Edmonton
http://www.metronews.ca/edmonton/local/article/348282—how-to-thwart-threats
Alberta Primetime
http://www.albertaprimetime.com/Default.aspx?FlashVars=Video/PT_ComingSoon.flv
CBC radio
http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/media/audio/mp3/2009-10-23-nait-security.mp3
Global TV
http://www.globaltvedmonton.com/video/index.html?releasePID=TS_Tet520qCv33JWpfxYzOq1EwvEB2tg

Steven J. Healy has been appointed a Fellow of the U.S. Department of Education’s Higher Education Center for Alcohol, Drug Abuse, and Violence Prevention.  As a Center Fellow, he will be helping the Department and the Center fulfill the terms of their Center contract to serve higher education professionals and communities surrounding campuses in the development of safe, healthy, and learning-conducive environments. He will assist with review of publications or Web documents, possible technical assistance, and training engagements - in both virtual and in-person formats - and to advise on emerging issues.

MH&A Associate Gregory A. Thomas has been asked to serve on the Subcommittee on Education and Juvenile Justice on the Congressionally Mandated National Commission on Children and Disasters. The Committee recently issued a report to Congress and to the President that outlines their recommendations for schools and juvenile justice facilities.

Steven J. Healy and Dr. Gary J. Margolis were featured in an article on campus safety in reference to a University of Michigan-Flint story.  http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2009/11/former_university_of_michigan-.html

For colleges and universities, it is always a challenge: balancing the desire to welcome the public to campus events with the need to protect the safety of the school community.  The stabbing death early Sunday of University of Connecticut football cornerback Jasper Howard has put the spotlight on this longtime source of tension.

STORRS, Conn. - The crimes have been stacking up all year: A Wesleyan University student gunned down at a bookstore cafe, a student at Spelman College felled by a stray bullet, a suspected drug dealer shot to death in a Harvard residence hall. In just the short time since the fall semester began, a Yale graduate student was strangled and a UCLA student was repeatedly stabbed in a chemistry lab.