Tipline seeks to promote awareness PINEDALE – In Wyoming, as students Pinedale Prevention Specialist Ranae Pape ing system. Safe2Tell Wyoming provides By promoting the Safe2Tell Wyoming are showing solidarity with the victims of agreed the program works. students, parents, teachers and concerned reporting resource, you are informing and the Parkland shooting, and focus on school She had a parent relate her daughter’s community members a way to confiden- engaging your fellow community members safety, Safe2Tell Wyoming offers support friend used her daughter’s phone as a prank tially report safety concerns in order for ap- to be part of the solution. Call: 1-844-996- for the students seeking to be active members and posted on Facebook, unknown to the propriate teams of school officials and law 7233 (844-WYO-SAFE) Submit a tip on- of their school and community, regardless of daughter. The parents were surprised when enforcement to create effective interventions line: http://safe2tellwy.org. Download the their political positions. minutes later a sheriff’s deputy was at the in the lives of youth who are struggling. app on iPhone or any Android device. “Safe2Tell Wyoming gives students, par- door checking on her wellbeing. ents and teachers a means to anonymously “It took 12 minutes from the post to the report safety concerns and that is impor- arrival of law enforcement,” Pape said. She tant,” Gov. Matt Mead said. “In the short time the program has been operating, we’ve added even though it was a prank, it was taken seriously. Pinedale Energy Partners already seen measurable, remarkable results. As awareness of the program spreads and In 2017, 743 reports were made state- wide to the Safe2Tell hotline. is proud to be operating Safe2Tell grows, it becomes an ever more effective tool for keeping our children safe “We are fortunate in Wyoming, as a re- sult of a concerted study and action by the with integrity in our at school.” governor and our Legislature, to have a sys- Pinedale community. The state of Wyoming passed legislation tem in place called Safe2Tell that is part of in 2016 critical to creating safe schools as a the answer to preventing violence in, and result of other school tragedies. Since that associated with, our schools. The impres- time Safe2Tell operators, law enforcement sive record of Safe2Tell in the relatively and school officials have responded to more short period in which it has been imple- than 185 tips regarding suicide threats and mented, makes its potential clear,” Michael self harm, investigated more than 100 tips on said. drug and alcohol use from students, addressed Wyoming Attorney General’s A partner- 191 cases of bullying, and 30 tips regarding ship with the Wyoming Highway Patrol, school shootings. Two of those incidents led Wyoming Office of Homeland Security, to an arrest. Wyoming Attorney General’s Office and “When tragedies like the recent school the Wyoming Department of Education, shooting in Florida occur, students, parents, Safe2Tell Wyoming provides trainings, teachers and administrators naturally look presentations, resources, promotional and to ways to prevent similar events in their marketing materials to Wyoming schools to schools and neighborhoods,” Peter Michael, increase awareness and promote responsible Wyoming attorney general said. use of the Safe2Tell confidential report-