What if the most important shift in school safety is realizing we don’t have to wait for a crisis to prevent it? In this session, Michele Gay talks to Dr. Kate Rahi about how early intervention, multidisciplinary collaboration, and a shared commitment to prevention can help schools identify concerns, support students, and change trajectories before situations escalate. Drawing from Kate’s experience in social work, mental health crisis response, school-based threat assessment, and violence prevention, they offer a hopeful reminder that effective prevention is within reach—and it’s a shared responsibility.