Some Researchers say school shootings are preventable but require sustained investment in mental health resources. In 2022, after the shooting in Uvalde, Texas, Congress passed a bipartisan bill that included over $1 billion toward expanding school-based mental health services and staff. Last April, the U.S. Department of Education discontinued the majority of those grants. The Department of Education explained the programs conflicted with the administration’s priorities. In December, the DOE awarded $208 million for credentialed school mental health providers, a fraction of the original funding. “Gun violence is the number one killer of our children in America, and our society currently seems to have its head in the ground in refusing to acknowledge this,” says Steve St. Juliana. His 14-year-old daughter Hana was killed in a school shooting in Oxford, Michigan, in 2022. “We can make great strides to prevent this from happening again. We just aren’t,” he adds. #schoolsafety #schoolshoo...