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How Students Can Manage Their Mental Health While Engaging in eLearning During the Coronavirus Pandemic Part 2

August 14, 2020

By Stacey Steinbaum, Trauma Certified Clinical Therapist, MSW, LCSW, CCTP www.personaltherapyservices.com Take Control of Your Mental Health If you are feeling anxious you aren’t alone. Many students feel triggered with all the changes and challenges brought on by Covid-19. The virus has significantly emotionally impacted children and teenagers around the world. Taking care […]

How Students Can Manage Their Mental Health While Engaging in eLearning During the Coronavirus Pandemic Part 1

August 14, 2020

By Stacey Steinbaum, Trauma Certified Clinical Therapist, MSW, LCSW, CCTP www.personaltherapyservices.com Students in many parts of the world have made significant changes to their daily routine to slow the spread of Covid-19, also known as the novel coronavirus. In order to practice social distancing students have refrained from going back to their classrooms […]

Lori Talks with Dr. Debbie of CrimeTime

July 31, 2020

Our co-founder, Lori Alhadeff, was recently a featured guest on Crime Time with Dr. Debbie, a weekly radio show airing every Wednesday on Miami’s 880 The Biz. Crime Time is an educational and entertaining podcast on crime in communities that offers strategies to change moving forward through conversation with subject matter experts. Lori joined Debbie […]

Alyssa’s Law Signed Into Law by Governor DeSantis

July 1, 2020

Make Our Schools Safe family, the time has come! The moment we’ve been working towards for so long has finally arrived. After so much effort on both our behalf and our many loyal supporters, Alyssa’s Law, SB 70 has passed in the great state of Florida. The law will require each public school to implement […]

A MOSS Club Member’s Plea to the Government

May 20, 2020

Dear President Galvano and Speaker Oliva, On February 14th, 2018, at 2:25 P.M., I was in my European History class, listening to a lecture on Prussia. My friend Seth, sitting at the desk next to mine, looked over to me with a piercing sense of alarm, glancing urgently at his phone. A Snapchat video […]

Our First MOSS Club Contest

April 10, 2020

Our Make Our Schools Safe Clubs are popping up all over the country. We do believe that Your Voice is Your Power! In our 1st ever social media contest, MOSS Clubs across the country were asked to create a social media post that would creatively advocate for MOSS. With the extra time on everyone’s hands, […]

Managing Stress During COVID-19 Through Telehealth Therapy

March 24, 2020

By Stacey Steinbaum, Trauma Certified Clinical Therapist, MSW, LCSW, CCTP www.personaltherapyservices.com The outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic has overwhelmed our society. We are all going through a difficult time transitioning into social distancing, online school, working from home, financial stress, and fear of contracting the virus. The ability to manage our stress is very […]

Florida House Passes Alyssa’s Law

March 10, 2020

Alyssa’s Law experienced a major victory in Tallahassee yesterday. After unanimous approval in the Senate last Thursday, the House gave its final nod of approval last night, with slight adjustments to the wording in the bill. The bill, presented to the House by Democratic Rep. Michael Gottlieb of Davie, was amended to remove the word […]

The S.W.A.T. CBS Cast Shows Support for Make Our Schools Safe

March 9, 2020

We’re used to seeing them fight crime as members of a highly skilled tactical unit in Los Angeles, but the cast members of S.W.A.T. recently joined together for another important on-screen mission. On the anniversary of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas, the cast members of S.W.A.T., an American crime television series which airs on […]

Seinfield’s Jason Alexander Supports Make Our Schools Safe

March 3, 2020

Make Our Schools Safe was recently endorsed by Jason Alexander, most known for his role of George Costanza in the hit show, Seinfeld. The show, which culminated in 1998 after airing for 9 seasons, comically captured the lives of 4 single friends living in New York City. With a career that has spanned more than […]

NY Press Conference for Alyssa’s Law

February 19, 2020

Senator David Carlucci and Assemblywoman Elle Jaffe held a press conference Wednesday, Feb 12, 2020 in support of Alyssa’s Law. The press conference was held just days before the 2-year anniversary of the Parkland shooting that claimed the lives of 17 victims, including 14-year old Alyssa Alhadeff, for whom the law is named. “Unfortunately, we […]

CBS 4 Miami: Alyssa’s Law, Which Would Bring Panic Buttons To Schools, One Step Closer To Passage

January 24, 2020

CBS 4 Miami covered the crusade for change by families of Parkland victims and the developing story unfolding around Alyssa’s Law earlier this week as it was passed through another House committee. Alyssa’s Law must go through all the committees on both the Senate and the House side before making its way to the floor […]

NBC – WPTV: Parents who lost daughter at Parkland hope to make schools safer with panic button alarm system

January 22, 2020

A local NBC news station, WPTV, covered the story of Make Our School’s Safe founders, Ilan & Lori Alhadeff, and the active role they have both played in working towards safer schools. Their activism has not just been limited to the school system in which their daughter, Alyssa, lost her life, but is a fight […]

#MyGivingStory

November 25, 2019

Help Make Our Schools Safe win up to $10,000 to support our mission in the #MyGivingStory contest. Contestants are required to submit an essay or video story between November 1 and December 3, 2019. You can check out the story submitted by our Communications Director, Lori Kitaygorodsky, here and cast your vote. In her submission, […]

Emotional Security: A Moral Imperative

November 11, 2019

It’s hard for students to learn if they don’t feel known and protected. Security is equally about emotional as much as physical safety. In these days of school insecurity, we need to address the needs of the whole child. This includes balancing the curriculum with both academic and social-emotional learning to teach students to […]

The New York Times Spotlights Lori Alhadeff’s Fight for Change

October 17, 2019

Losing someone you love is perhaps the most difficult aspect of this existence to come to terms with. Losing anyone is catastrophic, life-changing and painstaking. Losing a child is enough to make anyone abandon all hope, to lose their sense of vigor for life. Something different took place within Lori Alhadeff. She found herself doing […]

Why We Need to Sound the Alarm for School Safety

September 24, 2019

What comes to mind when you think of Valentine’s Day? Perhaps it’s candy hearts, flowers, and “I love you’s” exchanged with the most important people in your life? For Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, Valentine’s Day of 2018 was the scene of the most tragic and devastating mass shooting in U.S. History. […]

Your Voice is Your POWER

September 17, 2019

The mass murders of students in schools in the U.S. continues at an alarming pace. Yet, despite the commitment from schools, governments and the private sector to put an end to these horrific acts, they don’t stop. Even though we don’t have the perfect answer we still need to try everything within our POWER […]

Dr. Ilan Alhadeff Completes MBA Studies

Dr. Ilan Alhadeff Completes MBA Studies

August 15, 2019

Last Tuesday, Make Our Schools Safe founder Dr. Ilan Ahladeff walked across the stage at Florida Atlantic University to accept a diploma for his MBA, reported Miami CBS in a recent article. The MBA, which took him two years to complete, was a challenging feat under his usual circumstances of balancing 100-hour work weeks as […]

Support Make Our Schools Safe while Shopping on Amazon

July 29, 2019

We’ve got great news! You can now support Make Our Schools Safe while you shop! We’re now a recognized charity with Amazon Smile! Simply go to smile.amazon.com, log in with your Amazon account, and search for us in the search bar that prompts you to pick your own charitable organization. Once you’ve selected Make […]

Photos from Our Second Annual Tennis Round Robin & Shopping Boutique

July 15, 2019

Thank you everyone for joining us at the Second Annual Tennis Round Robin & Shopping Boutique and helping us create a safer community for everyone. Check out the atmosphere at the event:

Make Our School Safe’s ongoing initiative to take Alyssa’s Law national was featured last night on CBS Miami

July 12, 2019

Make Our School Safe’s ongoing initiative to take Alyssa’s Law national was featured last night on CBS Miami. The story highlighted Congressman Ted Deutch’s introduction of a bipartisan bill that would increase safety and security measures nationwide by mandating Alyssa’s Law. The primary objective of this piece of legislation would be to implement more structured […]

How to develop a trusting relationship with your teenager

July 8, 2019

By Stacey Steinbaum, LCSW, MSW, CCTP, Clinical Therapist | www.personaltherapyservices.com You may believe your teenager is open and honest with you because you have made an effort over the years to bond and develop a trusting relationship with your teen. However, the teenage years can be a game changer. It is common for teenagers to […]

Parkland Survivors Honor Victims With Music and Art

July 8, 2019

“Trauma is trauma. No matter what you’ve gone through.” Two Parkland shooting survivors, Sawyer Garrity and Andrea Peña, spoke to Brut about finding comfort and healing through music — and how they want to help victims of violence.

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