How is Colorado working to improve school safety?
05/04/23 • 50 min
Recent incidents of gun violence in Colorado have once again called into light the need for a more comprehensive approach to school safety. By creating systems in our schools that address the root causes of violence, we can ultimately improve the long-term safety and social-emotional well-being of our students and teachers.
Episode 9 of The West Steps explores school safety with Dr. Beverly Kingston, Director and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at University of Colorado Boulder; and Leslie Colwell, our Vice President of Youth Success Initiatives. Our guests detail effective strategies for building safer schools, share policy success and current research moving this work forward, and describe steps we can take to prevent violence in schools. They also emphasize the need to bring many perspectives to the table when it comes to making decisions about improving school climate. As researchers, advocates, and policymakers continue their work on school safety, it is critical that young people's voices inform their decision-making to create lasting solutions that best serve our communities.
Resources
- Kidsflash blog [Subscribe]
- Safe2Tell, 24/7 anonymous hotline to report safety concerns [Visit Safe2Tell]
- Children’s Campaign school climate policy work [Learn more]
- Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S Secret Service Analysis of Plots against Schools [Read the report]
- Safe Communities Safe Schools Model [Read more]
Follow the Children's Campaign on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Recent incidents of gun violence in Colorado have once again called into light the need for a more comprehensive approach to school safety. By creating systems in our schools that address the root causes of violence, we can ultimately improve the long-term safety and social-emotional well-being of our students and teachers.
Episode 9 of The West Steps explores school safety with Dr. Beverly Kingston, Director and Senior Research Associate at the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence at University of Colorado Boulder; and Leslie Colwell, our Vice President of Youth Success Initiatives. Our guests detail effective strategies for building safer schools, share policy success and current research moving this work forward, and describe steps we can take to prevent violence in schools. They also emphasize the need to bring many perspectives to the table when it comes to making decisions about improving school climate. As researchers, advocates, and policymakers continue their work on school safety, it is critical that young people's voices inform their decision-making to create lasting solutions that best serve our communities.
Resources
- Kidsflash blog [Subscribe]
- Safe2Tell, 24/7 anonymous hotline to report safety concerns [Visit Safe2Tell]
- Children’s Campaign school climate policy work [Learn more]
- Averting Targeted School Violence: A U.S Secret Service Analysis of Plots against Schools [Read the report]
- Safe Communities Safe Schools Model [Read more]
Follow the Children's Campaign on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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The Braidwood ruling: What does it mean for Colorado?
For more than a decade, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has required that health insurance plans cover a wide range of preventive health care services at no cost to patients. However, access to some of those services is at risk after a federal court ruled last month that the ACA’s preventive services mandate is unconstitutional in a case called Braidwood v. Becerra.
The Children’s Campaign has been working alongside partners for years to help guarantee coverage of critical preventive services in Colorado statute. The Braidwood decision injects uncertainty into our health care system and makes this work even more essential.
On Episode 8 of The West Steps, we dive deeper into the Braidwood ruling and the impact it could have on Americans’ access to essential health services. We hear from Erin Miller, our Vice President of Health Initiatives; Jack Teter, Regional Director of Government Affairs at Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains; Isabel Cruz, Policy Director at Colorado Consumer Health Initiative; and Eric Waskowicsz, Policy Manager at United States of Care.
Our guests open the episode by sharing their favorite preventive service and describe how these services impact peoples’ lives. We then shift to a discussion of how the Braidwood ruling has the potential to impact Colorado kids and families if continuous work is not done to guarantee access to these services. We also discuss the recent passage of SB23-189, which will allow many Coloradans to maintain access to important preventive health services, helping to reduce health disparities and protecting families from unexpected, expensive bills.
Resources
- Learn more about SB23-189 [Visit our Capitol Updates page]
- Subscribe to our blog [KidsFlash]
- United States of Care resources on Braidwood: https://unitedstatesofcare.org/braidwood-v-becerra-resources/
- Preserving Coloradans’ access to preventive services amid challenges to the ACA - Colorado Children's Campaign (coloradokids.org)
Follow the Children's Campaign on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
Next Episode
Our 2023 legislative session wrap up
The Colorado General Assembly has officially adjourned! On our final episode of the 2023 legislative session, we hear from some of the Children's Campaign policy staff about how our priority bills landed this session. Senior Policy Analyst Megan Ives, Policy Analysts Lauren Corboy and Hunter Nelson, and Director of Family Economic Prosperity Initiatives Sarah Barnes join us to share how their work this session will have an impact on kids and families across the state for years to come.
Read our full legislative impacts report on our website and stay tuned for more of The West Steps.
Resources
- KidsFlash blog [Subscribe]
- Legislative Impacts [Learn more]
Follow the Children's Campaign on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube.
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