The Power of ‘Precovery’: Building Safer, More Resilient Schools

The Power of ‘Precovery’: Building Safer, More Resilient Schools

In 1984, I was part of the first responder team sent to 49th Street Elementary School in the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) after one of the country’s first school shootings happened there. Two children were killed, and a dozen children and staff were wounded.  Following that heartbreaking tragedy, I saw the outline of an approach that has developed further since my time operating on the frontlines of trauma response and recovery. T…