The Lantern Project
There is no national, comprehensive, or integrated school violence database. We are building one. Our volunteer team is gathering and assessing hundreds of fragmented, inaccessible, and unusable school violence databases. Once completed we will mine their content to 1) provide new insights into the causes of school violence, 2) identify the best interventions for specific types of violence, and 3) offer users individualized tools for meeting the unique needs of a unique child. This new database will help us in going forward in developing new projects and solutions.
The BAE Project
There is no behavioral analytics engine (BAE) that connects thousands of school shooter behaviors to those of a student whose behaviors may signal their violence potential. This early warning BAE tool will help parents, teachers, school administrators and therapists to create communities of concern so that they can intervene before a violent event occur
The School Shooter Linguistic Project
Identfies semantic and syntatical language patterns in over 145 school shooters so that parents and school staff can compare those patterns with a child or student who slowly changes their manner of expression. It will also offer parents an add-on filter for their browsers to prevent their child from finding and visiting far right websites.
The Demographics Project
Discovers similarities between community elements in towns having been victimized by a mass shooting. Provides school administrators and school boards with tactical insights into how they can anticipate an event.
The Legislative Project
Analyzes the connection between federal funding for school violence and its politics, noting connections between donors and congressional members.
Grants
Researches and applies for projects listed here,
American Culture Project
This project attempts to answer the question of why mass school shootings are unique to American culture then converts those factors into a queried database.
The Social Science Project
This transdisciplinary project studies the psychological, social, media, and economic causes of school shootings and then enter the research into a database for public access.
The Intervention Project
Matches behaviors observed in a child with the best intervention programs to prevent violence before it escalates. School psychologist or social workers will have the advantage of being able to use this tool in order to be current in their therapies.
The Law Enforcement Project
A team of researchers are gathering and evaluating law enforcement records related to 665 school shooting events. The goal ie to ascertain how law enforcement may improve their efforts at reducing school violence by identifying and analyzing effective best practices response patterns.
